SlideShark: PowerPoint on the iPad

Friends of mine were looking for a way of presenting their Powerpoint presentations on their new iPads. All the existing options want to create Pdfs or movies of the presentation. The problem with this is that you lose all of the animations, video and other features that you can produce on Powerpoint. SlideShark seems to have rectified this.

Released a couple of days ago it seems to have filled a need in the business community. The beauty of this is that loads of teachers also have existing PowerPoint slides - they now have access to these on their iPads. Get a copy while it is still free. This will be one app that hits the top 100 list very quickly and when it does it will cost you.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/slideshark-powerpoint-presentations/id471369684?mt=8

Some fun iPad lesson ideas

The Department of Education of Victoria has put together a series of ideas for using iPads and apps in the classroom. These are also linked to learning outcomes. These ideas can be used as starters or even used as part of a series of lessons. Nice collection. Great to use as a starter to get your own staff to brainstorm the use of apps and linking them explicitly to learning outcomes.

See the site for the full list of ideas.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/elearning/ipads/classroom.htm

Set Up and Configuring New Features of iOS 5

Lots of people are starting to download the new iOS 5 software but many of the features take a little bit of time and knowledge to set them up. Lifehacker have a good article on some of these - check it out at the link below.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-up-and-configure-all-the-new-features-in-ios-5