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Digital Whiteboarding and Annotation With an iPad

This guide offers an overview of using an iPad and Apple Pencil for digital whiteboarding and annotation. It covers the basics of setting up an iPad with Zoom, but also offers suggestions about using the iPad in class, iPad workflows, and annotation apps. Connecting Your iPad in Zoom First things first: to share anything on your iPad screen with your...

Annotation/Whiteboard

Using PowerPoint with Apple Pencil Annotation on an iPad

One of the benefits of using your iPad and Apple Pencil with PowerPoint is the ability to easily annotate your slideshow. In just a few easy steps you can transform your static slideshow into a whiteboard, highlighting key images and phrases, or using blank space for problem solving. Enable Annotations in PowerPoint Make sure PowerPoint is installed on your iPad...

Annotation

Sharing Your iPad Screen on a Mac – On Campus

If you have a Mac, there are several ways to share your iPad screen over Zoom. But if you’re on campus, the best way is to use a physical connection: the charger cable that comes with your iPad (and an adapter for connecting it to the new USB-C Mac Books). This how-to walks you through this kind of connection. Open...

Annotation/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Scheduling Office Hours with Google Calendar Appointments

You can use to Google Calendar’s Appointment slots feature to make scheduling your office hours easier: students can schedule themselves for an available appointment, and you’ll get an automatic email telling you your time has been booked. With Zoom’s recurring meeting feature, you can also use the same setup to manage your virtual office hours. Creating Your Virtual Office If...

Community Building

Tracking Charge on Apple Pencil

The Apple Pencil does not have a way to tell you when the battery is running low on its own. However, you can use your iPad to keep track of the battery life in a few easy steps. Log into your iPad Swipe right on the home screen Select Edit on the bottom of the Widget Screen Find Batteries listed...

Annotation/Uncategorized/Whiteboard

Simple Video Editing with QuickTime (MacOS)

By default, all Apple computers include QuickTime, a media player that also includes basic video editing tools. These tools allow you make basic changes to your recordings without needing to learn more complicated software. Quick Time works best for simple tasks such as: Removing a false start from the beginning of a recorded lecture Cutting a private conversation from a...

Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom/Lecture/Sharing Media

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Shooting Video with a Cellphone

General Tips and Tricks Tip that camera sideways! Make sure you’re recording landscape unless you specifically need to record in portrait. Clean your lens! Don’t use digital zoom – it can lead to pixelization Use airplane mode to help silence notifications Shoot with the back lens (even when you’re shooting yourself) rather than the selfie lens Turn on grid lines...

Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Flipped Classroom/Lecture/Presentations

Podcasting

I need to make a podcast… A podcast is a digitally recorded audio file that can be downloaded or streamed for listening. Podcast content is as varied as the hosts who produce them. They can be long or short, serious interviews or comedic parodies, groundbreaking research or fictional stories that last for 5 minutes or span several episodes. As class...

Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Practice-based

Annotating Emailed Attachments On Your iPad

There are numerous ways to get files onto and off your iPad when you’d like to do things like annotate with the Apple Pencil. Using Google Drive is one way the ATS team recommends. But sometimes email is the easiest method. Using a mobile mail app (like Gmail’s app) and Notability, an note-taking app, you can easily download a PDF...

Annotation/Sharing Media/Whiteboard

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