Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Is Your iPad Running Slow? Here are some quick tips to speed it up.


Reduce special effects
If you are running iOS 7 or, later you might have noticed screen movement. You can reduce these motion related effects
Go to Settings>> General>> Accessibility>> Reduce Motion and turn the toggle on.

Stop background refresh
Background app refresh is one of the multitasking features when enabled lets the apps to fetch content in the background.  Most of your apps don't need to be updated all the time.
Go to Settings>> General>> Background App Refresh and disable the functionality.

Quit Spotlight
Spotlight allows you searching a lot of content such as Applications, Contacts, Music, Podcasts, Mails and more, while you might need it only for a few only. Uncheck the apps you don't want to search from:
 Settings>> General>> Spotlight Search.

Clear browser cache
Whenever you visit a webpage, Safari will automatically save its content in its memory cache but over time the browser cache fills up to an extent that it can slow down your browsing experience.
In Settings, find Safari on the left side and tap on Clear Cookies and Data on the right site. Affirm by tapping Clear in the popup window.

Turn off notifications
Many apps, when first launched, ask you whether you want them to notify you about important updates and other stuff. After a while you have a ton of apps that want to push notifications and it slows things down.
In Settings, go to Notification and clear out all the apps that you really don’t’ need notifications for.

This information was taken from the following article:


Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Use A Jeopardy Game to Review Concepts!

Someone has done the work for you!  Just open this template and follow the directions to save it and make it your own!

 Get the template here



Monday, December 21, 2015

New Features in the Read&Write for Google Toolbar!

A few districts in our SELPA use the Read&Write for Google toolbar.  A couple new tools came out after Thanksgiving break.  Check them out!

"Screenshot Reader" allows you to read inaccessible web content, such as text that is embedded in images, PDFs, Google Slides, ,online books,etc.





The "Speech Input" tool now uses Google's Voice Typing technology.  In addition, you can now use the "Speech Input" tool on other pages within the Chrome browser.



Thursday, October 22, 2015

The "Predictive Keyboard" (word prediction) now works with bluetooth/external keyboards with IOS 9 update

Using an on-screen keyboard for word processing isn't ideal.  "Predictive Keyboard" is a word prediction tool available on iOS devices.  In the past, it only worked with the onscreen keyboard. With the iOS 9 update, it will now work with your Bluetooth/external keyboard!

To enable the "Predictive Keyboard"
  • Open Settings and then go to General menu.
  • On General menu, scroll down until you see the 'Keyboard' and select it.
  • Look for ‘Predictive’ turn it on!

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Built in Voice Recognition in Google Docs!

There’s a new tool in Google Docs called “Voice Typing”.  It’s a speech-to-text tool that works quickly and it’s pretty accurate.  Here is how you can access the tool.  

  1. Log in to Google Drive (via Chromebook or Desktop using Google Chrome).
  2. Open Google Drive 
  3. Create a new Google Document
  4. At the top, click on “Tools” (located in the tools bar) and select “Voice Typing”
  5. This icon will appear on the page 
  6. Click to startà speak in clear sentences and click to stop