Publishing your blog posts of iPad hints and tricks/App reviews

This video shows you how to sign in to the blog and publish a post. Watch it more than once if you need to.

You will all be publishing at least two posts on this website

1. An app review (Comic Life, Adobe Slate, Adobe Voice, Padlet, Book Creator, OneNote, Sway, OneDrive, iMovie, Yammer…)
2. Your iPad hint/trick Choose one tip you can explain or demonstrate. Explain what it is and how it is useful. Either take screenshots or a very short video clip of you performing the tip and then upload to your blog post.

Success looks like this:

• A title that gives an idea of what your post is about eg How to take a Screenshot
• Some clear sentences that explains it step by step-use bullet points or numbers for your list
• A sentence or two about how the app could be useful or why the iPad hint is useful
• A very short video of you explaining and performing the tip (get a partner to film you?)
• Some screenshots of the app if it is the app review

Pinch and zoom, screenshots, split the keyboard, add an email account, caps lock, closing apps down, screen orientation lock, notes app, adding a web page to home screen, creating folders, airdrop…

How many iPad tips and hints do you know?

As we go along this project, you will learn more and more and we will share them regularly.

• Use the notes app to create notes of tips and hints for using the iPad.
• We will then share these more widely on our blog.

Ready to publish a tips or hints blog post?

• Working in pairs, you should film the other person performing a tip/hint
• View this post to see how to publish

You are going to make a video explaining either nouns, verbs or adjectives. 

You will need to plan lots of short video shots that give examples of the type of words you choose.

eg: Verbs

• People running
• People jumping
• Someone laughing

On top of that you will add text to explain what your examples are.

Tip: Try to include at least ten different examples

Use iMovie Trailers to create a trailer (like a movie trailer/advert) for a person. Could be a superhero or a person you admire or a character from a book you have read.

Use Adobe Voice to make a stylish animated video about your town/area: Alloa or Clackmannanshire

• Choose images-you may want to take images at the weekend and save them to your OneDrive in Glow so that you can access them in Adobe Voice later
• Use Notes to write your script and plan your video story

Your going to make a ‘Slate Story’ using Adobe Slate

Choose one of the following topics or think of one of your own

1. School newsletter/magazine
2. Topic story-show what you know about a topic you have learned about
3. The story of our school
4. The story of our class
5. The story of me

https://standout.adobe.com/slate/

Use the Comic Life 3 App to create a comic with a story that you create using selfies.

Comic life is a brilliant app that allows you to create stunning comics that look totally professional. You are going to create a short story using selfies as your images and adding text to explain what’s happening.

Success looks like this

1. Your story has a beginning, middle and end
2. There is a problem or some kind of trouble that needs to be solved
3. It gets solved in the end
4. You take selfies of you making facial expressions that the character is feeling eg worried/scared/happy/sad/nervous etc
5. You include describing words in your text/captions
6. You use colour and fonts that suits your story

Here’s a brief overview

Watch this video to see some features of the app on your iPads

Watch this video to see how to cut out background (alpha transparency is the technical term!)

Choose one of the Glow O365 Apps and write a review that includes images and words.

• OneDrive
• Yammer
• OneNote
• Office Online (Word/Excel/Powerpoint)
• Sway
• Outlook

Use Book Creator to write a review of a book you have read.

• Include text and some images-take a photo of the cover or get someone to take a picture pf you reading it.
• Why not add some video? You could add a video of you saying why you liked the book and what your favourite part was/who your favourite character was
• Or you could add an audio clip of you reading a passage?

The Alloa Learning Community is made up of Park Primary, Redwell Primary and Sunnyside Primary, all in Alloa, Clackmannanshire.

The Community is embarking on a Digital Literacy project with Tablet Academy Scotland that will see Tablet Academy work with classes from all three schools to explore various different apps for learning with iPads and other digital devices.

Pupils will undertake a six week block of work that will see them complete a number of digital challenges.