Quickoffice HD Pro is one app I use for productivity a great deal. I like the fact that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files work on one App, just like in Microsoft Office. The downside is not all formatting options are available that are included in the Microsoft computer version. I paid $19.95 for the app last year… this year the app is no longer being supported. Instead, QuickOffice is the replacement app. It works much the same as Quickoffice Pro, but it doesn’t have as many options as the version I used before. Students like the office app because they can continue to work on an assignment from their classes on the iPad. It doesn’t matter if they began their work on a computer or not, documents, spreadsheets, PDF files, and PowerPoints can be started on a computer and then opened on an iPad and they can continue working. The reverse is true, if a document is started on the iPad and saved or emailed to an account, the document can be used on a computer.
I'm way more familiar with the Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as opposed to iWork's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, so will probably act on your post and download the Quickoffice Pro app. One of my districts strictly uses the iWork suite stuff, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Too far out of my comfort zone, haha!
The only subscription apps I have on the iPad are magazines. I found it just as easy to read a magazine on the iPad as a paper copy at home. I haven’t used this with students yet and am not sure what I would subscribe to that would benefit students. Students do use USA Today and News 360 apps to get current news. They are not ‘paid’ subscriptions, but free ones to use. I also like to read USA Today, the articles are brief which makes staying current on a variety of topics easy.
I use Haiku Deck for vocabulary. It is like Power Point but more simple. I write the word and a brief definition or a synonym of the word under it. I add pictures to represent the word. The picture bank is amazing!! I use it for pre-teaching vocabulary before we read. The decks are stored so I can always go back and review words if needed. The pictures help the word make sense, it gives them a visual to relate to. My students like it.
I have google docs and google drive on my ipad. I am in charge of sending out a homework list each day for students who have to report for homework class. This way I can send it out using Ipad even if students are using my computer. It has come in really handy. I can also pull up anything else I have saved in my google account which is awesome.
I googled apps for productivity and came up with a list of 8 from the Harvard Business Review that said these are what their most tech-savvy bloggers use to stay on track. Now, I know there's no way on God's green earth that I could be compared to a "tech-savvy blogger," but I thought I'd see what advice they had to offer anyway. The ones they recommended were: Doodle, Workflowy, GarminFit, Zite, Dropbox, Due, HootSuite, and iCal. The one that caught my attention was Due. The basic premise of the app is that you set an activity and due date/time (much like recording a to-do list in a normal planner), but the alerts won't stop coming until you take care of what's due. I think this would be good for me because when I don't exercise the best time management skills, I'll often just cross something off my to-do list and write it down on a different day in my planner. Problem solved right??? Until the end of the week gets here, and I'm looking at Friday all bug eyed going "Holy Lord... How am I going to get all this done?!" With this Due app, it seems like I'd have my own little personal nagger that wouldn't quietly let me keep putting off things until another day. Yep, I think I'll definitely test this one out.
I've signed into Dropbox from both the laptop/iPads and the psychretary desktop, and that allows us to each do our part to update the student databases for meetings. It works well to give me a copy of scans also, since our email system can't always handle large attachments. Since only a certain amount of storage is free on these, I also have information on Google Drive, and Skydrive so I can access it on the iPad. I like Evernote for this also, when I just need to jot down an idea, or a few details from a conversation, or measurements for new curtains, or whatever - and find it later. Someone else showed me the Side by Side application that allows you to use split windows for the iPad to copy and paste from one to another. Pocket and Read Later are good for saving things from websites you want to look at more later, but don't want in your favorites.
Quickoffice HD Pro is one app I use for productivity a great deal. I like the fact that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files work on one App, just like in Microsoft Office. The downside is not all formatting options are available that are included in the Microsoft computer version. I paid $19.95 for the app last year… this year the app is no longer being supported. Instead, QuickOffice is the replacement app. It works much the same as Quickoffice Pro, but it doesn’t have as many options as the version I used before.
ReplyDeleteStudents like the office app because they can continue to work on an assignment from their classes on the iPad. It doesn’t matter if they began their work on a computer or not, documents, spreadsheets, PDF files, and PowerPoints can be started on a computer and then opened on an iPad and they can continue working. The reverse is true, if a document is started on the iPad and saved or emailed to an account, the document can be used on a computer.
I'm way more familiar with the Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as opposed to iWork's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, so will probably act on your post and download the Quickoffice Pro app. One of my districts strictly uses the iWork suite stuff, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Too far out of my comfort zone, haha!
DeleteThe only subscription apps I have on the iPad are magazines. I found it just as easy to read a magazine on the iPad as a paper copy at home. I haven’t used this with students yet and am not sure what I would subscribe to that would benefit students.
ReplyDeleteStudents do use USA Today and News 360 apps to get current news. They are not ‘paid’ subscriptions, but free ones to use. I also like to read USA Today, the articles are brief which makes staying current on a variety of topics easy.
I use Haiku Deck for vocabulary. It is like Power Point but more simple. I write the word and a brief definition or a synonym of the word under it. I add pictures to represent the word. The picture bank is amazing!! I use it for pre-teaching vocabulary before we read. The decks are stored so I can always go back and review words if needed. The pictures help the word make sense, it gives them a visual to relate to. My students like it.
ReplyDeleteI have google docs and google drive on my ipad. I am in charge of sending out a homework list each day for students who have to report for homework class. This way I can send it out using Ipad even if students are using my computer. It has come in really handy. I can also pull up anything else I have saved in my google account which is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI googled apps for productivity and came up with a list of 8 from the Harvard Business Review that said these are what their most tech-savvy bloggers use to stay on track. Now, I know there's no way on God's green earth that I could be compared to a "tech-savvy blogger," but I thought I'd see what advice they had to offer anyway. The ones they recommended were: Doodle, Workflowy, GarminFit, Zite, Dropbox, Due, HootSuite, and iCal. The one that caught my attention was Due. The basic premise of the app is that you set an activity and due date/time (much like recording a to-do list in a normal planner), but the alerts won't stop coming until you take care of what's due. I think this would be good for me because when I don't exercise the best time management skills, I'll often just cross something off my to-do list and write it down on a different day in my planner. Problem solved right??? Until the end of the week gets here, and I'm looking at Friday all bug eyed going "Holy Lord... How am I going to get all this done?!" With this Due app, it seems like I'd have my own little personal nagger that wouldn't quietly let me keep putting off things until another day. Yep, I think I'll definitely test this one out.
ReplyDeleteI've signed into Dropbox from both the laptop/iPads and the psychretary desktop, and that allows us to each do our part to update the student databases for meetings. It works well to give me a copy of scans also, since our email system can't always handle large attachments. Since only a certain amount of storage is free on these, I also have information on Google Drive, and Skydrive so I can access it on the iPad. I like Evernote for this also, when I just need to jot down an idea, or a few details from a conversation, or measurements for new curtains, or whatever - and find it later. Someone else showed me the Side by Side application that allows you to use split windows for the iPad to copy and paste from one to another. Pocket and Read Later are good for saving things from websites you want to look at more later, but don't want in your favorites.
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