1. Optimizing the iPad - Apps that help you work smarter, and some just to have fun ! Teresa A. Fishel & Beth Hillemann DeWitt Wallace Library LibTech Conference March 2012

2. Observation #1 iPads become extremely personal devices.

3. Observation #2 What works for me, may not work for you. Case in point – Beth loves to read on her Kindle, not so much on her iPad. Terri learned early, that she doesn’t like the Kindle, but loves reading on her iPad.

4. Observation #3 Half a million apps and growing… …we haven’t explored them all, yet.

5. Topics – in 30 minutes  Brief tips and tricks  Readers - pdf, e-books  Books as Apps  News – Keeping Up  Recording/Note Taking  Screencasting  Managing your files and your time  Fun stuff

6. Tips and Tricks  Favorite Tips  Double-tapping the home key  Foreign language equivalents on keyboard  Screen capture – home key + on/off button (quickly)  Browser control  Adding frequently visited sites  Xmarks or other Bookmarking Tools  Google Search App

7. Reading  PDFs - iAnnotate  Books – Kindles, Nooks, iBooks, Google Books, library downloads, free books  Books as apps

8. iAnnotate – and why it is Terri’s favorite for pdfs

9. Ebook readers/audio Nook, Kindle, iBook, and more

10. Ebooks as apps

11. News – staying afloat while keeping abreast

12. Instapaper & Feedler  Instapaper – Web pages, save now, read later  Feedler – RSS feeds

13. Specific News Sources or Filters  Zite – free application as of 2/15/2012  You personalize your news  Art & Culture  Food & Cooking  Politics  Science News  Customize  You thumbs/ up thumbs down articles and it eventually focuses on what you like to read  Sources – newspapers, blogs, ejournals

14. Recording/Notetaking  Penultimate  Evernote  Notability  TagPad – interview software - https://sites.google.com/site/ucsdtagpad/ https://sites.google.com/site/ucsdtagpad/

15. Screencasting  You’ve been using Captiva, Jing, something else – what’s available for the iPad?  Educreations – free  Explain Everything – see next slide

16. Demo of Explain Everything to explain iAnnotate– video should begin automatically

17. Managing Your Files and Your Time  Remembering where I put…  QuickOffice  Drop Box  CloudOn  PhotoTransfer App

18. Fun Stuff  SoundHound –  TuneIn –  IMDb –  TED talks –  Scrabble, Netflix, xfinity, hulu, Zumocast…

19. Thank you!  Your turn now  Please speak loudly Questions, comments, your favorite apps to share…

20. Selected resources for locating apps  Appshopper - http://appshopper.com/ipad/http://appshopper.com/ipad/  Prof Hacker - http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/  PCMagazine - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362572,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362572,00.asp  MacWorld - http://www.macworld.com/http://www.macworld.com/  iPad Apps articles - http://www.macworld.com/search?q=iPad+apps http://www.macworld.com/search?q=iPad+apps  iPad Projects - http://www.ipadprojectsbook.com/http://www.ipadprojectsbook.com/  iPad Academy - http://ipadacademy.com/http://ipadacademy.com/

21. One more…  AirSketch – the app used to introduce the program – free version

22. More info  Contact info –  Beth Hillemann, hillemann@macalester.eduhillemann@macalester.edu  Terri Fishel, fishel@macalester.edu  Location of slides will be in DigitalCommons@Macalester

23. Apps Suggested by members of the audience – costs may vary  Presidents versus Aliens – iTunes Store, $.99iTunes Store  iSwifter – social gaming, iTunes Store, freeiTunes Store  Browsers  Diigo – iTunes Store, freeiTunes Store  Atomic Web – iTunes Store, $.99– iTunes Store  Discovr – a way of finding apps, shows relationships or similar apps, iTunes Store, $1.99, iTunes Store  Wunderlist - Task manager, to do, – iTunes Store, free– iTunes Store  Vtok – Google talk, chat, video – iTunes Store, free– iTunes Store  Desktop Light – for connecting to a pc/Windows – iTunes Store, free– iTunes Store  Skitch – screen capture and sketch – iTunes Store, free– iTunes Store  Touch Mouse – turns your iPad into a wireless keypad for your computer – iTunes Store, free– iTunes Store  Slide Shark – Powerpoint presentations on the iPad – iTunes Store, freeiTunes Store  Printing  Printer Pro – iTunes Store, $6.99– iTunes Store  Air Print – this was mentioned, but you need a wireless printer in order to make this work – see this article, http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-tips-tricks/how-to-use-airprint-on-the-ipad, http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-tips-tricks/how-to-use-airprint-on-the-ipad