Notes from November 16, 2012 Meeting

Thanks to everyone for joining the group today.  Here are the notes:

Agenda:

  • Connect to the Smart Board and show 3 apps.
  • Group Troubleshooting
  • Follow-up

Apps (with links to App Store entry)-

Scribble Press– book authoring and sharing (Free)

Doceri– Screen casting and sharing (Free)

Notes Plus-Note taking ($7.99)

Penultimate-Note Taking ($.99)

Blackboard Mobile– mobile access to blackboard.uvm.edu ($1.99 a year or $4.99 for a lifetime)

KMLmapHD– GPS mapping with export feature for further use in Google Earth ($3.99)

WebDAV Navigator– Copying files from iOS device to Zoo Webspace, see tutorial in previous post (Free)

Atomic Web Browser Lite– Alternative to Safari web Browser (Free)

Atomic Web Browser Full…– Alternative to Safari, more fully featured than Lite version ($.99)

Tablet Scanner- Scan documents by taking a picture, with OCR functionality ($2.99)

Overdrive Media Console– Library eBooks and Audio Books (Free)  *EPUB format seems to work better in this app

Color Splash– convert photos to black while keeping other parts in color ($1.99)-

PDF Annotators- Good Reader ($4.99), iAnnotate ($9.99)- , PDF Notes (Free)- , Adobe Reader (Free)-, Evernote (Free)-, Zotero- http://www.zotero.org

Troubleshooting/Advice-

Tap on the black bar (with time, battery life, wifi, etc.) to go back to the top of the of the page.

Press and hold on a letter in the keyboard for more options

Four finger gestures- swipe to the side to move from app to app, swipe up for most used apps

Moving files off the device to UVM servers- Use WebDAV Navigator

Follow-up

Have the next meeting in 303 Bailey Howe (Center for Teaching and Learning) and alternate

lunch time meetings?  Stick with Friday.

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