


You’ll also be happy to carry around most of your books as digital copies rather than lug paper. Whether it’s a fiction book for English literature or an physics text book, you’ll probably find what you need at Amazon’s massive book store. If you move a native Pages document to the Mac, your options for saving expand to plain text, RTF and EPUB. Pages for the iPad can save your work as either a native Pages document, compatible with the Mac version, or PDF or Microsoft Word format. Whether it’s a lesson plan or a grant proposal, you’ll be writing. To project your presentations on the big screen, see the Acessory section below. You can create beautiful and animated presentations on a Mac with the OS X version, in the iWork ‘09 package, and transfer files to the iPad, or you can create them directly on the iPad itself with the Keynote app, a best seller. As of this writing, PowerPoint isn’t available for the iPad, but Keynote is a perfect and powerful substitute. Keynote is Apple’s version of Microsoft’s PowerPoint. The apps listed below are in no particular order, but we think this set is where any educator will want to start. Accordingly, here’s the result of that collaboration. The art of teaching also requires one to communicate, present, write and manage information. That set is nice, but it’s not everything an educator will need. Also included is Apple’s Safari web browser and the email app. There’s a good calendar app, a reminder app, Google maps, a camera app with a companion photo manager and music and video players. Out of the box, the new iPad comes with some preinstalled utility apps that will help the new owner right away. This is the end result of that discussion.īut first things first. Of course, my wife, who’s involved with education, and I started making a list right away. She’s planning to buy her first iPad, and she asked us about apps that she should get after the purchase. Recently, my wife and I were at dinner with a professor friend.
