06 May at Spring Street
Airdrop - what is it and how does it work?
Much of this session focussed on Airdrop, as many of you wanted to experiment and get hands-on with it. We tested out sending photos and documents from one iPad to another.
- How do we know what number is our ipad? We did work this out .. it's engraved on the back:
- Yvonne (29) Nilanthi (30) Catherine (73) Anna (Da Young) Chris Mo (24) Anna B (75) - all working
- Belinda (31) - her ipad is very very slow
- can we airdrop from google drive?
- answer, possibly yes, but it's a bit complex
Evaluating airdrop as a way to share documents with students in the classroom:
- NB: airdrop is problematic:
- takes a while and not always responsive - is it because the file size is huge?
- you only get a second or two to accept - this could be trouble in a classroom!!
- you need to work out who has which iPad, and then track who managed to save the document.
- Can we change the settings to make airdrop last longer?
- seems like NO is the answer to this.
Is there a better way of sharing documents?
What about this:- Create a folder in google drive, and share it with your students
- Then put any documents in the folder.
- You can share it specifically with the student email addresses that go with the iPads,
- or share it with their real email addresses,
- or you could make the folder open "to anyone with the link"
Other questions: Audio recordings
- Nilanthi uses My Memos - can no longer rename the files
- Recorded sessions in mp3:
- Belinda has emailed to herself, and wants to upload to google drive. How to save to gdrive from gmail?
- Michael uses Voice Record, which allows you to upload to drive directly
- Bugs: Catherine found later on that QuickVoice wasn't letting her upload to google drive. But, we found a workaround:
- export the file from QuickVoice to Voice Record Pro,
- then save to google drive from there.
- Watch a short video about this over there.
Gmail contacts:
- creating a list (yvonne) - lists don't carry across to the ipad app!!
- we don't have an answer for this yet.. anyone?
Libby's survey for iPad skills
- Do you know how to print from the iPad?
- We think Fraser has set up at Merrilands but not at Spring St yet.
- Multitasking gestures - look in the system settings to find a list.
- What about making folders to organise your apps
- Yvonne showed people how to make folders for app icons on desktop.
- Change background on the screen?
Google drive
- How do we put something on the drive?
- on the iPad, look for the Share icon
- "open in" google drive => prompts you to "save in" google drive
- How to copy a file from dropbox to google drive?
- We worked this one out on the spot
- again, look for the Share icon,
- then "open in" google drive
Presentation software
- How to get student presentations onto the TV? Students can also send to Airplay.
- How to get a copy of student presentation? Airdrop, or email.
- Q: why doesn't keynote share to google drive?
- A: it does: see this post.
- Faye was experimenting with student presentations in her class. She needed to
- 1) get them to play their presentation overhead
- 2) get their presentations onto her iPad
- 3) save the files where she could access them from different devices
- We covered this in a different post on the blog, over here.
PD register
- Can we see the record of what we've done?
- Lauren and other coordinators have changed the way the PD register works. Now you tick the box that says something like [send me a copy of my response], and the email that comes to you lets you change your response.
- Coordinators are still working on a way to get the full record of what you've done, however.
Word
- What about picture layout
- why does it look different in google drive?
- text wrapping and grouping images
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Image and photo credits: licensed under creative commons: Thanks very much: Juhan Sonin at flickr (CC-BY).
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