A Primer for Presenting with an iPad
By Stephen Best, SIGPL Director
While the popularity of PowerPoint may be fading, the notion of presenting information to an audience, whether a classroom of students or conference session with one’s peers, is still critical. If you are looking to use an iPad to replace your laptop or desktop computer for this, there are a couple things you should know. With the right tools (and apps) you can present like a pro in your classroom and use your iPad to help your students learn. Tis “primer” gives some of the basic details to get you going, and a little practice (or a little review of the apps in the iTunes App Store) will help you make the iPad a critical tool to support your teaching.
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Te Basics Before you begin, you need to know that the iPad operating system, commonly known as iOS, was initially set up for viewing on the device, which at the time, was an iPhone. Even aſter the system evolved leading up to the introduction of the iPad, most of the content was meant to be observed up close, there were a couple accessories that were introduced to allow you to take the movies and TV shows you might have on your iPad and show them on another device. Te Apple VGA adapter ($29 from Apple) would allow certain kinds - photos and videos that play on the built-in apps on the iPad - to be shown on a computer monitor or projector that had this type of port. For teachers with this iPad, it basically meant viewing pictures or video, and some of the subsequent presentation soſtware, like Keynote, could use this functionality. However, this iPad did not let you show what is on the iPad screen on your projector or TV. Te app you were using had to have that functionality built into the programming, and very few did this (we’ll get to the apps that do this a little later). If you wanted to show what you were doing on the screen, you needed to use a document camera and projector.
Ten, last March, the iPad2 was introduced. Tis changes things a bit for those wanting to show something on the iPad. First of all, the more advanced processor within the iPad2 handles video much better, and so you can actually “mirror” your screen on a projector (show the exact image that appears on the iPad screen through your projector). However, you will need the new Digital AV adapter ($39 from Apple), and an HDMI cable leading directly
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