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Technologies and Humanities in the Five Colleges March 1st

Digital Humanities Colloquium 03-01-2013 This Friday, March 1, 2013 at

Webster 102, Amherst College. Panel discussions and presentations from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. iPad in teaching case studies will be presented.

It is Written: Handwriting Apps for iPad

Handwriting recognition apps on the iPad

MyScript Memo Just write in your own hand as clearly as you can. Export as text if you want handwriting-to-text conversion. The app will show you converted text only as part of exporting your document. In other words, when you have finished writing your notes then you’ll choose to […]

Noteshelf

I photographed my class’s citation exercises and emailed them my comments via an cool new app Noteshelf. Caryl

Noteshelf is a handwriting notetaking app. Exports to Dropbox or Evernote or Facebook as PDF or image files. Can be projected so can be used as a presentation tool. iPad app.

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Here’s an iPad Task: create an instructional video

You can create an instructional video for your students. All steps can be done on your iPad:

1. Use CloudOn or Docs to Go or any wordprocessing or notetaking app to outline the flow of your video. If you use a notetaking app like Paperport Notes or Pages then you can draw your steps (storyboarding) […]

A Map of iPad Deployments for Fall, 2012

A little nibbler that you may find interesting. Link to a map of iPad deployments for Fall 2012 (not a great map and clearly an underestimate ,but you’ll get the idea).

map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=206671720793257686956.0004c85984dc7093cd396&msa=0

article: http://www.zdnet.com/map-back-to-school-drives-100-huge-ipad-and-tablet-deployments-7000003458/

Movement Evaluation Apps

Daphne found this article on movement evaluation apps:

http://www.zdnet.com/these-are-the-free-and-cheap-mobile-apps-olympians-use-to-get-better-fitter-7000002339/

Here’s an iPad Task: jot down an idea and then . . .

Notetaking: write a note to self. There are lots of notetaking options. There are the basic Notes app that comes with the iPad, NotesPlus, Passport Notes, Evernote, and more. Tablets are great for just getting an idea down for development later.

Email that note to self or to someone else. Your text can be copied […]

iPad Photography: how best to take a picture

1. From Apple’s iPad2 Manual about Camera: Use the screen to control the back camera and to see the photo or video you’re taking. You can tap anywhere on the screen to select a specific object or area, and automatically adjust the exposure based on that part of the image. Autofocus (up to about 4 […]

Flash multimedia

Sometimes, you will visit a website that has a video that you will want to play but find that it does not work on your iPad. Flash multimedia does not work on iPads. To date, there has been no business agreement between Adobe and Apple.

Safari on My iPad Froze

Safari can freeze up. The iPad screen will look greyed out. Clicking on any links will not be possible. When it happened to me I opened a different browser and looked for a solution. Fortunately, an Apple forum had a very useful post. It works:

Go to Settings–Safari. Clear history, cache, and cookies. Restart […]