Have you considered Apple Pages?
We are currently operating in two technology ecosystems: Google and Apple. Most of our word processing continues to occur in Google Docs, even though our students are working on iPad hardware. As you might imagine, Google has made no effort to design a brilliant Google Docs app for the iPad. The Google Docs app on the iPad is Captain Crappy. I would rate it a solid D.
Why do we continue to use it then? Apple makes a full-featured word processor called Pages, which lives on everyone's iPads. Pages has all the document, text, and multimedia formatting of the major PC word processors.
Fun facts about Apple Pages:
- Pages allows for collaborative document editing.
- Documents are automatically saved in iCloud.
- Documents can be viewed and edited on any PC web browser using icloud.com.
- Documents can easily be submitted to Google Classroom.
- Pages takes advantage of Apple's multimedia ecosystem, making it simple to add images, drawings, videos, and audio files to documents.
Your tech challenge for this winter is to give Pages a serious trial. Get over the initial learning curve so you can see all of the benefits on the other side. Try using it with your students for an assignment. Keep an open mind. It is a different beast than Google Docs. But it is designed to bring a full-featured word processing app to the iPad, utilizing all of the features (and more) that you miss from Chromebooks.
Attached is a PDF tutorial on how to use Pages. I encourage you to scan through it yourself and to share it with your students as you encourage them to use Pages for an assignment. Please reach out if you would like to schedule a one-on-one training session or if you would like for me to come to your classes and train your students.
-> Pages User Guide for iPad ebook [Apple]
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