Tuesday Tech Tidbit

Using the Keynote iPad app, students can create amazing multimedia presentations that put Google Slides to shame. But once these presentations are completed, teachers want to be able to easily open them on their Windows computer and assess them in Google Classroom.  Impossible, you say?  Not at all! The secret to submitting full-featured, multimedia presentations into Google Classroom is for students to submit an iCloud link rather than a physical file.  The video below demonstrates how a student uses an iPad to submit a Keynote presentation (with a video!) to his teacher in Google Classroom.  The teacher then opens the presentation on a Windows PC and plays the full-featured presentation in the Chrome browser, all without leaving Google Classroom.  If you thought this was impossible ... watch on! By demonstrating how easily Keynote can play nicely with Google Classroom and Windows computers, I hope more teachers and students take the plunge and discover the am...

Your iPad offers audio recording capabilities that are very simple and easy to share.  The easiest way to record audio is to use the Voice Memos app.  This app allows you to record and edit audio files.  After you finish recording, you can easily share your recordings via email. Google Drive, Google Classroom, and more.  The video below demonstrates how to record and share audio files using Voice Memos. If you want to get more advanced with your audio recordings, I recommend installing GarageBand.  This app allows you to record multiple audio tracks, including voice and music.  

Your school-issued iPad offers 32GB of storage.  This storage can fill quickly if you install a lot of apps or save a lot of media files to your iPad.  Today's tech tidbit will show you a couple of quick actions you can take to free up some of that internal storage.  The video below will walk you through these easy steps.

Keynote is an incredibly capable program that can create multimedia presentations that run circles around Google Slides.  I highly recommend taking advantage of Keynote when assigning students projects that include multimedia presentations. When working with another teacher, I discovered that Keynote does not appear to allow streaming videos to be embedded directly into a presentation.  Keynote prefers to access videos directly from the iPad.  No worries mate!  It's fairly easy to download a streaming video and then embed it into a Keynote.  I recommend using the website btclod.com to download streaming videos (such as YouTube videos).  The video below demonstrates how to accomplish this. UPDATE!  The btclod website is blocked at Hudson.  You can instead try  https://www.youtubedownloader-online.com .   Let me know if you have any questions or need follow-up support.  🙂