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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
The iPad is a great teaching tool. It is an amazing eReader for accessing textbooks and journals. It is also great for multimedia content like videos, audio, presentations, and 3D animations. Most importantly Apple's app ecosystem makes it very powerful. You can find apps for almost any teaching task in app store and use them instantly.
You will start with simple tasks like creating presentations and visualizations. Soon you will be making interactive books and resources as well as teaching practical lessons such as music and art!
"Teaching with iPad How-to" starts with the most basic task of planning your lessons. As you go through the book you will learn how to 'carry' your textbooks on Little Books, create your own resources and finally publish your courseware.
Be it organizing your notes, creating charts and presentations, or just recording attendance, this book will help you do all these tasks very efficiently on your iPad. In this book, you will also learn to create and distribute timetables, create your own textbooks and make your classes interesting and full of information by using the iPad's 3D and subject-specific resources.
You will learn to make your teaching job interesting and engaging for your students by using iPad as your teaching and organizing tool.
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Seitenzahl: 91
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012
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Teaching with iPad How-To
Teaching with iPad How-To
Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing
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First published: November 201
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Credits
Authors
Shubhangi Harsha
Sumit Kataria
Reviewer
Silvina P. Hillar
Acquisition Editor
Joanna Finchen
Commissioning Editor
Maria D'souza
Technical Editor
Prasanna Joglekar
Project Coordinator
Esha Thakker
Proofreader
Aaron Nash
Production Coordinator
Prachali Bhiwandkar
Cover Work
Prachali Bhiwandkar
Cover Image
Aditi Gajjar
About the Authors
professionally develops iPad, iPhone and Android applications. She understands the heart and soul of the mobile application development and likes to create challenging apps that are data-heavy and dynamic in nature.
Shubhangi studied Computer Science and Engineering in her bachelors studies at PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India and graduated from there in 2010 as the opper of all branches. She is a student of MSc in Computing at Imperial College London, for which she has been awarded the prestigious Jubilee Scholarship of the British Council and the Government of the United Kingdom.
Shubhangi likes to take up mind games in her free time. She likes to anchor cultural events and is passionate about dancing. A non-trained dancer, she has given numerous solo stage performances in dance and mimicry too. She is very close to her parents and loves to spend time with them. Awarded the title of "All-Rounder Girl" during her studies, Shubhangi likes to explore her capabilities in diverse areas, and authoring this book is another such exploration. This is her first book, written with the motive of helping school teachers who choose use the iPad.
On fast-pace successful completion of my first book, I pay my sincere thanks and gratitude to my parents, Dr. H.K. Verma and Mrs. Usha Verma, who brought me up and educated me in a way that today I find myself capable enough to author a book that can make imparting of knowledge both interesting and convenient. Thank you mom and dad for co-operating with me in all possible ways and for not disturbing my sleep till noon everyday when I worked in the night to write this book and manage my other work alongside.
I feel fortunate to have some close, true and special friends who selflessly encouraged and supported me in everything I chose to do, even to write this book. My special thanks to my co-author, Sumit Kataria, for being a great co-worker.
I appreciate the entire Packt team for their professional yet friendly handling of the writing and publishing of this book. Lastly, I thank all the fantastic people who have chosen to read my first book and shall be grateful to receive their valuable comments and feedback.
Sumit Kataria is a software engineer and technology enthusiast who trusts in open source software. He possesses both a deep knowledge of Drupal programming and magical mobile app development skills allowing him to make Drupal and mobile sing together in beautiful harmony.
Sumit has built more than 20 iPhone/iPad/Android social-networking / ecommerce / media apps. He has worked with Lullabot, CommerceGuys and CivicActions building several large-scale CMS integrated mobile applications, including the Kickstart mobile commerce, Drupalize.Me and Do It With Drupal conference app.
Sumit is very passionate about everything he does and tries to bring the same enthusiasm to his projects. He has been a presenter at 4 DrupalCons and several DrupalCamps, advocating Drupal as a mobile application cloud-based backend. He was a Google Summer of Code student for Drupal in 2008, and has been managing the whole program ever since.
When Sumit is not working on Drupal/Mobile, he enjoys traveling and exploring new places. Sumit lives in New Delhi, India. Find him on LinkedIn (http://bit.ly/sumitk01), Twitter as @sumitk, or mail a <[email protected]>.
This book is dedicated to my mom and dad, Indu and Subhash for their continuous supporty uncle Arun, sisters Nidhi and Shivani for always believing in me nd to all my close friends Anuj, Ankush, Dhruv, Manisha, Shubhangi and many more. Shubhangi is also co-author of this book, whose amazing dedication and effort kept us on schedule.
Team at Packt - Amber, Esha, Manali, and Maria for making this project such a smooth ride. And finally to you, awesome reader, for buying this book
About the Reviewer
Silvina P. Hillar is an Italian who has been teaching English since 1993. She has always had a great interest in teaching, writing, and composing techniques, and has made a lot of research on this subject. She has been investigating and using mind mapping for more than 10 years in order to embed it into teaching.
She is an English Teacher, a Certified Legal Translator (English/Spanish), and has a Post Degree in Education (graduated with Honors).
She has been working in several schools and institutes with native English speaking students and as an independent consultant for many international companies as an interpreter, translator and VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) course designer.
She has always had a passion for technological devices concerning education. Former videos and cassettes were a must in her teaching lessons, and computers were and still are present. Her brother Gastón C. Hillar designed some programs and games for her teaching. Lately, she is teaching using Moodle and Web 2.0. Previously for Packt, Silvina has written Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook, Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook, and Mindmapping with FreeMind.She believes that one of the most amazing challenges in education is bridging the gap between classic education and modern technologies.
She has been doing a lot of research on multimedia assets which enhance the teaching and learning through VLE platforms. She tries to embed the learning of students through new resources which are appealing and innovative for them. Thus, multimedia stimulates the different thinking skills as well as multiple intelligences.
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