Pages: Making a Brochure on an iPad

One of my teachers wondered how his students could create a brochure on an iPad. Turns out, Pages has two nice brochure templates. These directions assume the children have already saved all needed photos to their photo roll, and have finished revising their text in Google Docs. You can view the original document here.

This […]

Creating Field Guides with Haiku Deck

Grade 4 takes numerous field trips in second semester related to their social studies units. This year their trips include Sungei Buloh wetland reserve and the MacRitchie Tree Top Walk.

Copy of Mei Field Guide – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

One way to enhance the experience is to help students learn […]

Poetry Cafe – iPad Style

Our grade four classes read and write poetry. Rindi Baildon brought a lovely poetry celebration with her from Taipei International School. Students turned their poems into illustrated movies complete with their voices reading the poems.

Over the years the tools we use for the project have morphed from Windows Movie Maker to iMovie to VoiceThread. […]

iTunes – Regifting an App

Our school is in the process of migrating from school-managed to family-managed iPads. I think it is a good move since it will allow us to better differentiate the iPads for each learner. However, getting there is a bit of a slog.

Today I created these directions to help parents whose children either didn’t receive […]

From Presentation to Blogger on an iPad

[NOTE: An easier to print version of the tutorial can be found here. ]

Our iPad Mentor teachers really like using the Keynote app for student presentations. It is easy to use and makes visually pleasing presentations. Unfortunately, if they want students to move the presentations from the iPad onto the student blogs there is […]