Digital Roadtrip

This blog tracks the activity of Julian Coultas (AKA  Digital Roadtrip) Apple Authorised Professional Educator.  Digital Roadtrip is one of the most experienced Apple practitioners in the UK, helping educators work strategically and practically in the classroom. Check the current project 8iPads. There are very few people with a track record of successfully moving schools forward with Apple technology in both primary and secondary sectors. We are busy and constantly engaged in the classroom with students and teachers. Contact us at least 2 months in advance of any planned training days! Don't let this put you off! Busy means good! Contact via email - [email protected] [phone] http://twitter.com/#!/digitalroadtrip If you need tech support with the management of iPads and Apple tech in the NW try Alan Bailey www.grizzlymedia.co.uk Tweets by @digitalroadtrip !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Setting up your Mac folders on Google drive so you can teach on your iPad

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QR code from exercise book to Seesaw m4v from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

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Apps on iPad comparison - Infogram, charts & infographics

Infographic: Apps on iPad comparison

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September 14, 2015 at 05:19PM http://ift.tt/1ibmaMM

So it's a hi-tech evening with Google Cardboard, trying to get an iPad Mini to fit!

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Back at work this week after an amazing break in the Outer Hebrides! The Callanish Stones were incredible. Onto delivering iMovie and Garageband Mac based training this week which will make a change iPads!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zVzWU95Sw)

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The Kalkan Tapes

Whilst having a well earned break in Turkey, I had some fun exploring Music apps and wrapped it up in the lovely Adobe Slate app. It’s shame that you can’t embed sound files within Slate. My music is basic crude and the timing very dodgy (sketchy), but it is just a hobby. I do like the idea of playing effects through the iPad. The backwards guitar was really fun to play through the Flux Fx app!

My favourite app though has to Korg's Gadget. It is a great example of how the iPad has changed the landscape of many creative activities.

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April 25, 2015 at 07:31AM http://ift.tt/1bqyPIj

Having loved IFTT now known as IF, I was always going to like this. Great time saver for teacher blogger - photo/screenshot to blog in a jiffy! (Good pre urban dictionary description).

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backing up your work from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

For the lovely staff at Heygreen and St Silas Primary schools.

This isn't the most exciting video I've posted! But it is an important one. Teachers need to back up their work.

Earlier this week I was looking and even touching the Apple watch, but not buying! It is beautiful, but it's the first Apple product in along while, that isn't for me. I don't do jewellry. Many Edu tech people will try and lead some kind of "we get it" they don't crusade. It isn't intended for educators yet.

I can't reconcile a watch tha needs an iPhone to work for personal use. I already have three Apple devices that ring and allow me take a call! I tracked my sleep and general health data for 18 months with an UP device, but it broke. ;-) I didn't do anything with that data apart from realise that I am not a heavy sleeper.

I am a state education person and with that comes a set of social and poltical values that I currently can't square with the new Apple product. Of course "Watch" is about inventing a new market as much as a new product.

So within 24 hours of fondling the beautiful goods in the Regent Street Apple store, I find myself in Liverpool looking at the Google Cloud storage situation. When we set up Google Apps for Education (GAFE) we had 30Gb of free cloud storeage. Unbeknown to me, this has been extended to unlimited storage.

Times are tough for most people. This harsh contrast of values has really hit home. I'm an Apple user through and through. However, the contrast of the opulent Watch with the basic, practical, usefulness of Google's offering to educators, has been a real eye opener this week.

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Creating a visual photo stream of work in progress on the iPads during the lesson from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

Using Boinx's PartySnapper app. Here we are using the free Symmetry Draw app for creating the images. teacher hosts the party and the class add their images as their projects develop, these are then mirrored from the teacher's iPad to whole class.

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Eclipse v2 from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

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Augmented Green Screen Appsmash from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

Ok! So this is the third and final piece re: Green Screen on the iPad for a while. This part of a sequence of posts on 8ipads.com.

Here we are looking at combining animals from the ZooKazam app with green screen presentations. You could for example create a virtual zoo! The Zookazam app is a little tempermental. Its needs lot RAM so you might need a hard reset.

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8 iPads explained. from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

Ok so 1:1 is what a lot of folks aspire to. However it isn't feasible for everyone or indeed appropriate. So this video attempts to unpack the basic principles of working with and sharing a class set of iPads.

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Untitled from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

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Creating virtual Zoo in class this am at Heygreen in Liverpool.

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Doink Green Screen app used with Puppet Pals for overlays edited in iMovie from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.