What does the iPad do?

1. What does the iPad do? • It is an iPod • - Plays music, audio books, videos, televisions shows, movies • It is an Internet communications device • - It can access the Internet through Wi-Fi or 3G networks • It is an E-book reader • It is a Platform for third-party apps • - 100,000s of apps in categories such as: games, business, education, • entertainment, healthcare, fitness, music, photography, productivity, travel, • sports…..

2. Touring the iPad Exterior • ON THE TOP • On/Off, Sleep/Wake Button • - To save battery life: hit this button when you’re done using it • Headphone Jack • Microphone • ON THE BOTTOM • Speaker • 30-Pin Dock Connector • - to recharge battery • - to recharge and synchroize

3. Touring the iPad Exterior • ON THE RIGHT SIDE • Screen rotation lock • Volume UP/Down Control • ON THE FRONT • Touch Screen • Home Button • Application Buttons

4. STATUS BAR • Airplane Mode – you can use your iPad on plane when the pilot gives the okay • 3G – if you have an AT&T plan and the 36 iPad • Wi-FI – connected to Internet through Wi-FI • Activity – tells you that some network or other activity is occuring • VPN – shows that you are currently connected to a virtual private network • Lock – tells you your iPad is locked • Play – something is currently playing • Bluetooth – tells state of bluetooth connection • Screen rotation lock • Battery – Shows battery life

5. 13 Home Screen Icons • Calendar • Contacts • Notes • Maps • Videos • iTunes • App Store • Safari • Mail • Photos • iPod

6. GETTING STARTED • What you need to get started: • Another Computer • iTunes Software • iTunes Store Account • Internet Access • Turning iPadon/off • Locking iPad - It’s important to lock the device so that: • You don’t inadvertently turn it on • For privacy • Maximize battery life

7. Multitouch Interface • Training your fingers to: • Tap: • - an icon to open an app • - to start playing a song or choose an album • - Double tap to zoom in • Flick or Swipe: • To scroll through lists/pages • To move beyond home screen • Tap to stop scrolling • Pinch/Spread: • Place two fingers on the edges of a web page….and then spread your fingers to enlarge images • Unpinch to make images smaller • Drag • Slowly press your finger against the touchscreen without lifting it to move around a webpage that is too large to view on the screen

8. Virtual Intelligent iPad Keyboard • Virtual keyboards slide up from the bottom of the iPad screen • There is a separate numeric and punctuation keyboard • You see only the keys pertinent to the task • Keyboard in Safar is different from Notes (dedicated .com key in Safari) • Physical keyboard can be purchased: docking keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard • It has built-in English and foreign language dictionaries

9. Virtual Intelligent iPad Keyboard • It adds contacts to dictionary automatically • It predicts the word you’re trying to type • It suggestions as you try to type – when you decline a suggestion, it adds it to the dictionary • Decline suggestions by tapping the characters you typed—this helps build the dictionary with your terms, names…

10. Finger-Type on the Virtual Keyboards • Be patient, it may take a week or so to the hang of it • As you press your finger against a letter or number, the key darkens • If you tap the wrong one, you can slide your finger to the correct key because the letter isn’t recorded until you release your finger • Tap and hold to access special accent marks – keep your finger pressed against a letter, and a row of keys showing variations on the character for foreign alphabets pops us • If you press and hold the .com key, it offers you the choice of .com, .net, .edu, or .org • Tap the space key to accept a suggested word • Tap the suggested word to decline the suggestion

11. Finger-Type on the Virtual Keyboards • Fingers or Thumbs? • Practices to see what’s comfortable for you • If you are holding the iPad, you may have to use your thumbs • If the iPad is laying on a flat surface and at a slight angle (inside case), you can use the touch method • When the iPad is in the landscape mode, it will be easier to touch type • You also have the option of a physical keyboard • Adding apostrophes – Press and hold the Exclamation Mark/Comma Key and it • changes to an apostrophe

12. EDITING • Don’t get hung up over errors while you are typing • The self-correcting feature can fix many errors • Hold your finger against the screen to bring up the magnifying glass, use it to position the pointer where you need to make a correction, then backspace to delete the error • Selecting text – double-tap to select a word • Tap select to select the adjacent word or tap select all to grab everything • Tap copy to copy • Tap cut to delete • When you decide where to insert the text you just copied, tap the cursor - commands will pop up to Select, Select All, and Paste

13. Searching for Content • To search for content across iPad: • Access Spotlight by flicking to the left of the main Home Screen or press the Home button • In the bar at the top of the screen that slides into view, enter your search query using the virtual keyboard • The iPad starts spitting out results….as you type the list gets narrowed • Tap a listing to jump to what you are searching for