Workshop resource: http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/itsc/
- Financing Insights: Canby teachers have money available in iTunes and through Apple's VPP (Volume Purchasing Program) for resources. District has centralized purchasing, leasing teacher machines. IT dept. has setup a 3 year lease on laptops through Apple/GE Capital for $150K a year for teachers; district has a few desktop labs for testing (Think Clients - mostly old machines). IT dept. has Innovation Grants that teachers can apply for, after taking an action research class and present what they've learned.
- Every 3rd Grader across Canby district has access to an iPod touch. Most classrooms have iPads as well. Assigned student email to all students through Google Apps.
- Canby has a segmented network: Facebook is blocked, but Youtube is open. Moved from a Class C to a Class A networking range - only one level of access instead of tiered between administrators, teachers, and students. G5 at every school, local telecom runs switch.
- Download Edmodo App from iTunes App Store
- Create a group for students and teachers to join. It's free.
- The Edmodo Library (at the top of the screen) is a great place for you to upload content and then push information out to your students. It is a private library, unless you create a Folder and make that folder public to share with students/groups. There is unlimited space to store on Edmodo.
- Edmodo app allows limited content upload from the iPad (hopefully this will change with the next iPad OS upgrade).
- You can create and distribute content (like videos from Youtube) through a site like Edmodo without creating, converting, and syncing the content which is time consuming. Teachertube, Vimeo, Youtube, Learn360 are all compatible (i.e. Linkable) to Edmodo.
- If you want to upload a video from your iPad: go to Youtube from Safari (not the Youtube App). Select and copy the video's address. Open the Edmodo app. Paste link into a new post. If it doesn't load, you may need to change settings to allow "mobile" versions of page addresses.
INTEGRATING APPS FOR CREATING CONTENT
CONVERTING PDFs to ePUB
- Camera/Video app
- iMovie app
- Keynote app
- Notes app
CONVERTING PDFs to ePUB
- Make sure your images, video, media spots are locked "inline" into the text as opposed to "floating".
- Using PAGES export your PDF as an ePub (file extension)
