2. Why should we have iPads? A presentation on how teachers can use iPads. By: Jessica Shepherd

3. Many of us are wondering “Why do we need iPads?”  IPads can have many uses as an educational tool.  They can be used to communicate amongst facility.  They will help us keep up with our tech savvy children.  Our children will benefit from using them in their spare time.

4. What do you mean we can use iPads as an educational tool?  Teachers can do benchmark testing on the iPad.  Dibels  We can track students.  Teacher’s Assistant Pro  We can share lesson plans with one another.  iCloud  We can make and edit documents on the go  Pages  We can teach lessons on the whiteboard from our iPads  Show Me  We can make lessons from the iPad  Keynote

6. Why should we do dibels on the iPad? Paper  Time consuming  Timer  Flip pages  Fumbling  Write down scores Ipad  Upload Roster  Self timed within the app  Automatically changes when word is finished  Keeps up with students progress for you

7. Teachers Assistant Pro  Upload your classroom roster then  Keep up with discipline  Edit every aspect such as specific infraction, and specific disciplinary action.  Create random grouping for projects  Help your class become fully acquainted  Instantly communicate reports with parents and administration  Set up conferences with students parents with documentation.  Syncs up with your school email.

8. iCloud  Every teacher will be linked with iCloud.  Save information without cluttering memory.  Share lessons with one another.  Access documents that you have forgotten via the internet.

9. Pages  Similar to Word  Create documents such as  Handouts  Premade templates help you easily create handouts on any subject.  Tests  Assignments  Can also send out assignments from the application.  Notes  No more writing on the overhead.  Can save documents in.pdf form for everyone to access.  This makes it easy for you to upload onto the school site.

10. Show Me  Present on your interactive whiteboard  Record voice  Take screenshots  Make video presentations  Use your stylus to draw or write on your whiteboard from any location in the room.

11. Keynote  Create beautiful lessons  Premade themes  Can add things to slides like  Animation  Pictures  Tables  Charts  Videos

12. How can our students benefit from iPads?  Educational games  Word Magic  Stack the States  The Math Masters  Resources at their fingertips  Google  Dictionary.com  Tutoring  Spanish tutor  TypeFast  Word processing  Pages  Keynote

13. Everyone can benefit from iPads!  Makes our job as a teacher a little easier  Helps us to keep up with our tech savvy classes  Helps us to quickly communicate with one another, parents and administration.  Helps students learn concepts and research easily.

14. Resources  http://www.teachhub.com/20-amazing- ipad-apps-educators http://www.teachhub.com/20-amazing- ipad-apps-educators  https://www.itunes.apple.com https://www.itunes.apple.com  http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/tea ching-technology/mobile-technology- apps/ipad-as http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/tea ching-technology/mobile-technology- apps/ipad-as