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Presenter: Tonya Paulette

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Presenters: Dr. Noe Ramos, Dr. Steve Chamberlain, Dr. John Lowdermilk

Presenters: Dr. Tekla Hawkins, Dr. Randall W. Monty

Presenters: Lisa Valera, Raymundo Garza

Presenters: Dr. Shawn Saladin, Associate Vice President for Faculty, Division of Health Affairs Ms. Maria Cabanillas, Senior Interpreter, Student Accessibility Services

Description: Through this session, the instructor will learn best practices for utilizing interpreters and CART to maximize the learning experience in a Zoom environment.

Remote Teaching with iPads

Learn how to use your phone as an external document or demo camera. This works great in Zoom for demonstrating skills or working out problems.

Learn an easy way to save a full article to your files, which you can then annotate (see Tip #3).

Annotate any PDF file with multiple tools. You can use this feature to mark-up articles, photos, or your students' papers.

Take Tip #3 one step further. Use the screen recording feature to create feedback videos for your students.

Learn the basics of the Clips app. This is one of the easiest video creation apps available. You'll be making short videos, or microlectures, in minutes. To learn the captioning feature in Clips, see Accessibility video #7.

  • For a deeper dive into microlectures and Clips, follow this link to an Adobe Spark Page that will show you how to create

Arrange your Home Screen the way you want it. LEarn how to move, delete and search for apps, and create folders.

Learn how to use and to move apps in and out of the Dock and Control Center.

Work with two apps simultaneously with Slide over and Split View. Learn how to drag and drop images, text and video from one document to another.

Turn your iPad into a whiteboard and video record your own illustrations and lessons. With narration!

Shake up your video narrations! The usual methods are background and "talking head", but iMovie offers three creative options that can provide you with more variety: Picture-in-Picture, Split Screen and Green Screen. Learn how to use PIP in this tip.

Shake up your video narrations! The usual methods are background and "talking head", but iMovie offers three creative options that can provide you with more variety: Picture-in-Picture, Split Screen and Green Screen. Learn how to use Split Screen in this tip.

Shake up your video narrations! The usual methods are background and "talking head", but iMovie offers three creative options that can provide you with more variety: Pciture-in-Picture, Split Screen, and Green Screen. Learn how to use Green Screen in this tip.

When recording "talking head" instructional videos, read your scripts from a teleprompter - your iPad. It's easy!

iPad Accessibility Features

Set up your accessibility features in Settings. Then learn how to access them from the Control Center and a Home Screen shortcut.

Discover iPad display modifications that can be made to accommodate different vision challenges, including adjustments to fonts, colors, contrast and brightness.

The Zoom feature allows screen magnification from 100 to 1500 percent, in a separate window or in full-screen mode. Learn how to use Zoom, and its multiple filter options, so that you better see what is happening on your screen.

Magnifier uses the camera on your iPad to increase the size of whatever you point it at. Then you can use any of the camera features to enhance the vision experience.

The iPad will read email, messages, web pages, articles and textbooks. Speak Content is helpful to those with visual impairments, reading disorders, or second language learners. Discover how to use Speak Screen for reading a full screen, and Speak Selection for reading selected passages.

Voice Over allows you to hear everything that happens on your iPad screen, even if you can't see it. Use this feature to open apps, type documents, and even hear descriptions of images in photos.

Why go to the trouble of retrofitting your videos with captions? Create captions at the same time you record your videos, with Clips. For Clips basics, watch video #5 in the Tips & Tricks series.

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