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Personalise the iPad with your Wallpaper and Lockscreen
This Digitip explains how you can adapt pre-made wallpapers as well as create your own from scratch, adding the personal touch to your iPad. Explore some exciting new options for creativity, ease of use and design. There are lots of possibilities for use in the classroom, such as a quick morning starter activity or as…
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Flyover in Apple Maps
This Digitip explains how to access the flyover feature in Apple Maps. In addition it looks at using maps as a replacement for Google Earth. Apple Maps has a feature called flyover, this allows the user to see a ‘drone type‘ view of special landmarks in a city. The cities that have flyovers can be…
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Customise Your Control Centre with iOS 18
This Digitip explains how to customise your Control Centre and prioritise the apps that you and your learners regularly use. The new iOS 18 update allows staff and learners to easily use accessibility features such as visual display settings, hearing accessibility features, and also motor accessibility tools. You can also add in handy features including…
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Edinburgh Teachers Celebrated at Digital Event
Teaching staff from across Edinburgh were welcomed to Waverley Court to celebrate achieving their Apple Learning Coach certification. It is great to have 62 staff across the city having achieved this certification. Educators from a range of primary and secondary settings shared their experiences of the programme, exploring the positive difference that this has brought…
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Adding a Shared Admin Calendar to Outlook (iPad & PC)
This Digitip explains how to add your school’s admin calendar to your own Outlook app. A helpful approach to reduce printing, have a live up-to-date calendar, and support good communication across a school. Watch the video
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Create a Quick Video with Live Photos
This Digitip explains how to create an automatically edited video using Live Photos from your camera roll on your iPad. This is a useful tool for quickly sharing the day’s learning with the class, recording a school trip or whole school event. Watch the video
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Extract Audio from Video with Shortcuts
This Digitip will show you how to extract the audio from a video with a simple shortcut. This is great if you want to change the visuals of a video but maintain the audio. You might create a scaffold for learners and then ask them to use your audio but change the images to show…
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Using the Photo Editing Tools on Your iPad
This Digitip will show you how to use the various photo editing features that are available on your iPad. This is a useful function for making photos stand out, cropping and focussing on key elements, and enhancing creativity. Watch the video
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Changing text size on your iPad
This Digitip will show you how to quickly change dynamic text and bold menu texts on your iPad. A really useful function for many users. Watch the video
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Syncing your online folders to your PC
This Digitip looks at helping you streamline your workflow by syncing online Sharepoint or teams folders directly to your PC. OneNote is a great tool that will allow you to access all of your content and documents on any device. If you are using a laptop you can speed up access to all of your…
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Using Safari’s Built-In Reader Tools
This Digitip looks at using the built-in accessibility functions found in Apple’s Safari web-browser. The Reader tool is a fantastic way to streamline a web page and focus on essential content. This gives learners the option to personalise with features including changing font size, page colour and font. This feature is also a useful way…
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Add Background Sounds to your iPad
This Digitip will show you how to add background sounds to your control centre on your iPad, giving you options of white noise, ocean sounds and more. You may find it useful to use if you have to concentrate on a piece of work for a long period of time. Watch the video
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Voiceover and subtitles in Clips
This Digitip will show you how put a voiceover and subtitles on an image or video using Clips A great tool for learners to show and explain their learning. Watch the video
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Celebrating Eurovision with Apple’s Numbers: Live Lesson
Calling all Spacemen, Divas and Heroes! Eurovision season is upon us with Swedish city of Malmö hosting after Loreen stormed to victory in Liverpool in 2023. The excitement has travelled as far as Edinburgh with learners in our primary schools getting involved in the musical buzz that the annual song contest brings. Learners in our…
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Spring with Sketchbook: The Winners!
Some might argue that Spring is yet to appear here in Edinburgh (come on now, sun!), but worry not, our ‘Spring with Sketchbook’ Live Lesson has brought the sunshine! You can read more about the lessons here and if you would like to see self-submitted drawings made by our young participants in lesson 1, we…
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Using timers on your iPad
This Digitip will show you how to make timers quickly on your iPad. A great tool for in the classroom or in personal planning. Watch the video
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Using the Drag and Drop Feature to Take Notes
Use the iPad’s drag and drop features to quickly take notes between Safari and numerous word processing apps. This is a great way to quickly take notes when completing a research task. Learners can select and hold onto any content that it is useful and then navigate to their favourite notetaking app to record the…
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Use Keynote and iMovie to create an X-ray machine – Part two
This is a great way to use green screen effects without having access to a green screen. What interesting ideas could you use this technique to show? This is part two of a two part Digitip: X-ray machine – iMovie Watch the video
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Use Keynote and iMovie to create an X-ray machine – Part one
This is a great way to use green screen effects without having access to a green screen. What interesting ideas could you use this technique to show? This is part one of a two part Digitip: X-ray machine – Keynote Watch the video
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Add live video to your Keynote Presentation
Create and share a presentation with added live video. This video shows you how to use the Live Video feature in Apple Keynote. This could be great for teachers to create help videos or for students to use when presenting to the class. Watch the video
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