Exciting news . . . . printing can now be done from district iPads at school. Each school is assigned one printer for the iPads to print to (usually the library printer). Printing can be done from any app on the iPad although the process may be different for each one. Thank you Shannon for writing this tech tip and Jane, Shannon, John and Shaun for all of their work making this happen!
Printing from an iPad at School
Below is the link to the webpage that houses the set of instructions, both printed and in video form. Click on the image to access it. The video demonstrates how to print from a variety of apps on the iPad.
The Printing Process:
1. Open app to print from.
2. Click on the Share icon.
3. Select the Print option.
4. Select the printer (only one option listed).
5. Print.
6. Sign in using the SD71 username and login (same as for logging into the computers). OK.
(Note: the process is slightly different for the Office products (Word, PowerPoint). The instructions for this are located at 1:25 in the video.)
The Inclusive Ed iPads (#35s) have all the printers listed. The specific school printer will need to be chosen to print at that location.
I can’t believe that tomorrow is May 1st, it seems like time is flying by! Speaking of being in a hurry-I bet you have had to text someone with one hand while your other arm is full of work or groceries… Did you know that you can slide the keyboard on your phone to the left or the right to make it easier to text with one hand? Read on for instructions for this. I am also excited to share that our Ministry of Education has produced some guidelines for using AI. in schools. We have posted them all on Learn71 here. Click here to go our page with the Ministry of Education AI Guidelines
One Handed Typing Mode on an iPhone:
1. Use an app that makes the keyboard pop up.
2. Press and hold your finger down on the globe at the bottom left of your screen
3. Choose which side of the screen you would like the keyboard to slide over to.
One Handed Typing on Android Phone:
With an android phone you can shrink the screen and have it go to bottom left or right to make it easier to navigate with one hand. Click here for instructions for one handed mode for android phones.
I am doing a presentation at a conference on Friday and like my normal self, I am totally nervous and want to do well. To practice the presentation, I tried out Microsoft’s Speaker Coach in PowerPoint and now I want to share how awesome it is with all of you! I was able to figure out how long my presentation was (too long), how many times I said umm (lots), if my pace sped up and slowed down (yep) and a whole bunch more information about how I present! This is a valuable tool for me, for teachers and for all our students who use PowerPoint. This reminds me, I can also turn on Closed Captioning in PowerPoint when I present and we missed a link in our Tech Tip last week: Captions and Soundfield in the Classroom – Learn71
How to use Speaker Coach:
1. Open your PowerPoint presentation online (it must be the online version)
2. Click on the arrow beside Present at the top right and then click on Rehearse with Coach
3. When you are ready to start, click on Start Rehearsing.
If you leave Show Real-time feedback checked, as you are speaking it encourages you and lets you know what you make mistakes (like saying umm over and over).
4. When you finish presenting, press end or escape to get out of presenter view and you will see your results. Make sure you scroll down to see them all! There are a whole bunch of new areas of data you can see like if words were repeated, pronounced correctly and if your language was inclusive.
