Files Connect: Eine App, auf die wir gewartet haben - Unsere iPad-Klassen Dank eines Tipps von einem Schüler – hallo, Fabian – bin ich auf eine sehr nützliche App im AppStore aufmerksam gemacht worden. Die App Files Connect (3,99 €) ermöglicht die Verbindung des iPads mit den Windows-Freigaben in unserem Schulnetzwerk. Darauf haben wir alle bereits gewartet. Die App dürfte befindet sich bereits auf allen iPads. Die Konfiguration ist relativ einfach und wird hier im folgenden Schritt für Schritt erklärt: Nach dem Start der App erscheint folgende Oberfläche: auf der linken Seite erscheint eine Liste vorhandener bzw. gefundener Netzwerkgeräte. Für unsere Zwecke ist es nun aber nötig, eine neue Verknüpfung anzulegen. Es erscheint daraufhin eine Auswahl möglich Verknüpfungsverfahren: Hier ist es bsp. möglich, sich mit einer bestehenden Dropbox zu verbinden, eine WebDAV-Verbindung zu erstellen oder eben eine Verbindung zu einer Windows-Freigabe herzustellen. Er erscheint ein Dialogfenster, in welches folgende Informationen eingetragen werden müssen:
WebDAV – Austausch von Dateien zwischen Windows und der Apple-Welt - Unsere iPad-Klassen Wir sind immer noch nicht 100%ig zufrieden mit dem Datenaustausch. V.a. diejenigen Kollegen, die eben kein iPad besitzen tun sich schwer, an die Schüler Dateien schnell und unkompliziert zu senden. Das Senden einer eMail an die Dropbox funktioniert prima, ist aber im Schulalltag eher unpraktikabel. Eine weitere Möglichkeit wäre die Verwendung eines WebDAV-Verzeichnisses, das sowohl im Windows-Schulnetz einfach angesprochen werden kann, als auch von den iOS-Geräten. Ein Datenaustausch auch aus den iPads heraus ist so wesentlich einfacher möglich. Die meisten Apps – wie z.B. Was ist WebDAV und wie geht’s? WebDAV steht für web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. Unter Windows 7 Diese Verbindung kann auch zu Hause am privaten Laptop/PC eingerichtet werden! Im Windows-Explorer links auf „Computer“ klicken. Hier auf den Link „Verbindung mit einer Website herstellen, …“ (blau, unterstrichen) Den Willkommen-Dialog mit “Weiter” überspringen. Im folgenden Fenster die Adresse
Using Physical and Virtual Printers with iPads Using Physical and Virtual Printers with iPads You've heard that you can print from your iPad to an AirPrint enabled printer, so you go to your favorite app and find the Print menu ... only to find that there aren't any printers listed. Your shiny new printer apparently doesn't support AirPrint. Join the club. The list of AirPrint enabled printers is growing but many of us just don't have one. Several app developers have jumped in to fill that void and in doing so, offer features way above and beyond simple printing from your iPad. PrintopiaPrintopia is an example of a 3rd party printing app that picks up where Apple's AirPrint functionality leaves off. (Note also that Printopia only works on Mac computers but we'll look at a comparable solution for Windows towards the bottom of the article.) You download the Printopia utility directly to your Mac laptop or desktop. Here's how to get started: 1. 2. 3. 4. The Magic of Virtual Printing ** Send content directly to a FOLDER on your Mac 1. 2.
Le Mur Parlant | keldarichards Le Mur Parlant Or How to Create Augmented Reality Talking Displays I recently discovered Aurasma, a great free app that allows you to create augmented reality (AR). Result? I have started a ‘Talking Wall’ in my classroom to display pupil ‘work’ using the app. The idea was a simple one – pupils often produce classroom displays of written work, but I wanted to motivate my lower ability year 7 groups to speak. Below is my ‘How To’ guide in its simplest form, and some of the pitfalls I encountered. Special thanks to David Mitchell @deputymitchell for making an Anywhere before me, and sharing it on Twitter (thus prompting me to make my own), and Simon Widdowson @xannov whose blog post on his 2DiY display in his classroom helped my ideas along And of course @joedale for saying I really should share this… Pitfalls When you create an Aurasma it needs to be shared for other people to view it. Ideas for other uses Like this:
Create an interactive eBook for the iPad using iBook Author: THE COMPLETE GUIDE | EasyTechSite Want to create your own interactive eBook for the iPad? It’s actually really simple using the iBooks Author program that Apple provides for free! Writing eBooks has so many awesome business applications and benefits. Books on iPads are the where books are headed. Even our classrooms are reading their text books on an iPad. I have created two eBooks using this method and I loved how easy the creation portion was; however, the uploading, publishing and approval process can be sort of tricky. Never fear! Creating your eBook The creation part is really easy especially if you already have the text written out on a word document or similar format. First, you will need to open iBook Author. The first option you have is to choose your template. Now that you have you template chosen you can start creating your book. Now all you need to do is start adding your written content. Once you have your text in the template you can adjust the size, font, add hyperlinks, change color and much more.
Technology and Education | Box of Tricks Posted by José Picardo on January 22, 2012 Apple recently announced the launch of its free iBooks Author desktop application, which – they claim – “allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.” This post takes you through my humble first attempt at making my first iBook using iBooks Author. [imagebrowser id=2] First Impressions When Apple announced the new iBooks Author app, my first reaction was to say about time! Using iBooks Author iBooks looks very much like a cross between Pages and Keynote (Apple’s answer to Word and Powerpoint respectively). An important aspect for someone, like me, who has lots of older word documents already saved in my hard drive, is that importing into iBooks author is as easy as dragging a word document into the application. Interactivity Drawbacks José Picardo
7 Ways to Collect Student Work in an #iPad Classroom (Updated 09/15/2012) Next week, I'll be facilitating a short one-hour workshop on a topic that is deceptively simple on a computer, but can be complex on an iPad--how to get student work off an iPad in a place where the teacher can get to it in ONE place. This short blog entry tries to offer some solutions. Let me know what you think, ok? Many apps--here's a short list--will output to WebDav, video or image format that ends up in your Camera Roll. For schools deploying iPads in carts, some options are outlined below: WebDav Server - This is the best option because you can show students how to put/get their content in a central location. When considering HOW to get information off your iPad, you need to remember the following: Terms of Service for various solutions may prevent K-7 (ages 5-12) students from using online, or cloud, storage solution. This list below is no particular order of preference. Update: You may also find this blog entry with video tutorials worth your time. Read more about it here
Sharing #iPad Docs in the Private Cloud using WebDav and OwnCloud Problem: We are deploying iPads in carts at the high school. Students will only have access to them once per day but we want them to work on projects. How can we make it so that students can log in at the start of the period, then out at the end of the period? We are trying to avoid paying for a solution like eBackpack. Response: Are you involved in an iPad deployment with students/staff? Use cloud-based storage (e.g. The question occurred to me, how hard would it be to connect the iPad via WebDav to a district server-hosted OwnCloud.org installation? Another approach that was fun to consider is OwnCloud.org, a free open source Dropbox-alternative that you can host on your own server (e.g. As you can see in the image below, I've copied 3 files from my iPad to the OwnCloud--which I setup on my laptop running UbuntuLinux (more on how later)--and it was pretty awesome! What does this look like on the iPad? How To Setup UbuntuLinux 12.04 Server How To Setup OwnCloud WebDav Access on iPad