Google Apps on iPads for Unique and Struggling Learners 

Presenter: +Jennifer Lowton   @jllowton    Jenniferlowton@gmail.com

link to this document:

bit.ly/ipadsforstrugglinglearners

What on the iPad itself supports students in learning?

• Triple Click settings for the Home button
• Speak Selection (Speech on newer iOS)
• Screenshots
• Invert Colors vs Color Filters
• Assistive Touch

• Switch Controls and Create Recipes
• Touch Accommodations: Hold Duration, Ignore Repeat and Tap Assistance

• Reduce Motion
• Guided Access
• Voice Over
• The keyboard microphone
• the Camera!

• take photos of the board, worksheets, notes, parent notes, charts, book page, artwork, permission forms
• Use with a scanning app like JotNot or Camscanner or with a whiteboard/document camera app like IPEVO Whiteboard for even more options!!

• The Photos App

• edit your photos, share them print them
• anything saved to the photos app (also called the “Camera roll” is easiest to pull into other apps to create projects.

• Safari

• Click this Link to take a survey on apps on your iPad.
• Websites- Save To Homescreen, Read aloud, Screenshot

• Jenn’s Website: bit.ly/lowtonresources   click iPad Workshops & tap iPad Workshops again

• Jenn Lowton’s Tips and Tricks worksheet

Please go to socrative.com  Choose STUDENT,  type in 530 and hit JOIN ROOM to answer Question:

What area are you interested in hearing about ipad support in today?
A. how to use the iPad in General.
B. Settings that assist students on the iPad itself
C. Early Childhood and elementary apps for Special Needs students
D. Google Apps on the ipad
E. a Combination of all of the above

What free apps support students in their study learning habits from school to home and back?

Google Apps Free and Paid-

• Google Drive App

• Click this link to learn more about working with Google Apps on iPads

• Documents App

• Now let’s type in this document for a discussion on Google docs on the iPad. Hold down on this link on the ipad and open in a new window or Click Here.

• Sheets App
• Slides App

• You can add slides, photos, tables and themes on the iPad version too!

• Keep
  (works totally offline even on Chromebooks/iPads!)
• Google Classroom

• Excellent way for sharing work and resources between ipads and other devices

• Chrome

• Saves bookmarks, history between ipads and computers
• Desktop mode

1 Apps Free and Paid-

• Paperport Notes (Drive integration) or Notability
• Whiteboard recording apps: IPEVO whiteboard or Board Cam
• CamScanner (free) or Jotnot pro (paid)
• Voice Dream Lite (Reads aloud texts from multiple sources with different voices to customize)
• Sonic Pics or Explain Everything (paid but integrates with Drive)
• Futaba Classroom (free and paid versions)
• Autism Apps (Search for SPED apps for all needs)
• Math Your teacher
• My QuizHD
• My Apps
• R of R
• Abilipad
• Visual Routine (paid)
• Skitch

• edit photos
• add text to photo
• draw on maps or charts
• Send to photos, Evernote, email, more

Resources:

• Websites

• Jenn’s Website: bit.ly/lowtonresources   click iPad Workshops & tap iPad Workshops again

• Jenn Lowton’s Tips and Tricks worksheet
• Edmodo resources for ipads for unique learners
• IPads in Education Livebinder

• graphite.org

• Pinterest boards:

• https://www.pinterest.com/drferreyra/apps-for-esl/
• http://www.pinterest.com/rinney3/esl-apps/