LEARN TO USE KEYNOTE
Everyone is familiar with boring, old PowerPoint. In middle school and high school, I had to make many lifeless PowerPoints and I hated every minute of it. There's a solution to this monotony, though: Keynote! Keynote is a creative app that allows users to design fascinating, interactive presentations. I have never used Keynote before, but I learned all about it by earning my Apple Teacher Learning Center Keynote for iPad badge. Check out my other Apple Teacher badge reviews for Pages, iMovie, and iPad! The Apple Teacher Learning Center provides teachers with an iBook manual for each iPad app badge. These manuals are full of useful information. For example, the Keynote manual provides instructions for making and animating a bulleted list, adding background images, and creating a custom table. You can learn how to do these thing yourself by earning the Keynote badge! Like Pages, Keynote allows users to add comments and collaborate. My favorite unique Keynote feature is the ability to draw on the presentation while it's playing. The drawing tools can be accessed by touching and holding anywhere on the screen while in play mode. Choose a color and draw directly on the slide with your finger or a stylus. The Keynote manual also suggests ways to use the app in the classroom. For math, the manual offers the four ideas: "Use shapes to demonstrate the relationships between fractions and decimals; Animate curved lines above binomial equations to demonstrate the FOIL method; Build an interactive multiplication chart using shapes, numbers, and links that lead to answer slides; Create a scoring rubric for an end-of-year project that uses formulas, sliders, and steppers to calculate final grades." Check out my first keynote presentation below! Please excuse the audible tapping and word fumbles! Then go earn your Apple Teacher Learning Center Keynote for iPad badge! |