Accessories

We have purchased a couple of accessories for the iPads that go with the past couple of blogs.  We now have a mic that will plug into the iPads.  Although the iPads have a built in mic, the hand-held mic is supposed to cut out some of the background noise.  If you are trying ShowMe or Voice Thread in your classes you may want to borrow the mic as well.

We have also purchased 3 camera connection kits.  There are 2 connectors in each box, so we have enough for all 6 of the original iPads.  One connector is for the USB cord from the camera to the iPad, the other connector is for the SD card.  If you are having students take pictures with the department cameras, you can put the images onto the iPads using one of the connectors.

Once the images are on the iPad, they automatically go to the Photos app.  Images there can be shared via twitter, email, iMessage (although we are currently trying to avoid use of this), and copied.  Any of the apps that allow you to post a picture, also automatically access your photos on the iPad.  For example, if you choose add an image in ShowMe, voice thread, or Evernote it will take you to the photos saved on the iPad.

There is another iPad brainstorming/concept mapping app that I’m playing with called Popplet.    It allows pictures which Idea Sketch doesn’t, and it is collaborative (more than one person can work on it at the same time on different devices) which is also nice.  More on this next week.