TIPS for Teaching with Technology: Academic Tools and Workflows on the iPad

Apple development executives gave a presentation on Academic Tools and Workflows on the iPad at the April TIPS for Teaching with Technology.

Thursday, April 4, 2019, Apple development executives visited the TIPS Center to provide an overview of academic tools and workflows on the iPad, with a focus on four themes: accessibility, student engagement, classroom collaboration, and digital content creation.

Accessibility

They began by giving an overview of the ways that apple products overcome limitations to accessibility through their many features.

Notes

Apple Notes was demonstrated using the Apple Pencil. Notes is a note-taking app available on the iPad and iPhone as well as viewable on icloud.com.

For the basics, Apple Support can get you started.
Add sketch or handwritten note (searchable with Siri)
Add document scans, photo/video + screenshots to a note

Control Center

The Control Center is the dashboard for changing settings on your phone such as brightness and volume, while also giving shortcuts to many useful features.

Customize controls in settings
Add screen recording shortcut
Add accessibility shortcut
Overview of key features
Connectivity, media playback, collaboration (AirPlay/AirDrop)
Activate assistive touch via accessibility shortcut
Screenshot (using assistive touch shortcut) and markup of control center (add to Notes)
Alternatively: markup screenshots and pictures via the Photos app

Learn more about the Control Center from Apple Support.

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality creates a layer of computer-generated graphics over a real-world situation using a phone or iPad as the viewer.

A brief overview of emerging instructional possibilities
Discuss screen recordings as a way to capture instructional AR content

To learn more about this technology visit Apple’s Augmented Reality site or see examples in their gallery.

Examples

Creating Instructional Videos

Instructional videos can be easy and fun to create using many different apps for your iPad.

Creating presentations with PowerPoint / Keynote / Google Slides
Adding voiceover with iOS screen recording
Alternatively: export from Keynote as a movie to add voice-over later (e.g. using iMovie or Clips); Keynote has some nice transitions and animations that can be exported as a video
Annotating and narrating content with Explain Everything

Learn more about Explain Everything.

Document Annotation and Markup

Import PDF from Google Slides into iOS Notes / Notability
Overview of annotation tools
Recording feature in Notability (and managing recordings)
Using Notes / Notability with AirPlay for presentation and discussion
Using Notability for student grading and feedback
Potential student use cases: worksheets, reflections, mind maps
Export options (locally and via cloud)

Learn more about Notability for iOS.

Flipboard

Flipboard can help you create curated collections of media for your classes.

Creating custom collections of articles and stories
Connecting class to current debates and news

Learn more about Flipboard for iOS.

Further resources from Apple

If you would like more information on how to incorporate technology into your courses, reach out to us at tips@uark.edu.

This content was developed from a presentation by Apple executives which was sponsored by the TIPS Team and The Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) at the University of Arkansas.