{"id":228,"date":"2011-11-28T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:38:55","slug":"equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"[iPad in School] Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Technical details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/specs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ipad\" src=\"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ipad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"299\" \/>Technical details<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is an iPad enough?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first lessons were taught only with the aid of iPads&#8230; no blackboard, no whiteboard, no projector. However, this is not enough since students were unable to cope with all the instructions. Although they had them on their iPads (on their Dropbox-Account, which I will write about later), most of the students had problems finding them. When I started working with a projector, the amount of explanations could be strikingly decreased. I would always make sure to be in a room with a <strong>projector<\/strong>or <strong>smart board<\/strong>, especially when something new is explained. Students, particularly the younger ones, need a lot of help when it comes to new applications. Very often symbols in various apps were not intuitive enough for them.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you have a <strong>VGA adapter<\/strong> for your projector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vga_adapter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vga_adapter\" src=\"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vga_adapter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For individual listening comprehensions you have to provide students with <strong>earplugs <\/strong>(those with standard jack plugs are fine), otherwise it gets much too loud in class. Most of the students have MP3-Players so you can tell them to take their own earplugs.<\/p>\n<p>When I did listening comprehensions for the whole class I used my <strong>mini-loudspeakers<\/strong> (very flexible). I bought them for my MP3 player once (for about 10 Euros) &#8211; again, they have a standard jack plug).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/loudsp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"loudspeaker\" src=\"http:\/\/app.tugraz.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/loudsp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical details &nbsp; Is an iPad enough? The first lessons were taught only with the aid of iPads&#8230; no blackboard, no whiteboard, no projector. However, this is not enough since students were unable to cope with all the instructions. Although they had them on their iPads (on their Dropbox-Account, which I will write about later), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[iPad in School] Equipment<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[12,11,10],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-schule","tag-equipment","tag-ipad","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learninglab.tugraz.at\/app\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}