Basic Introduction and Use of Your iPod Touch
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Transcript Basic Introduction and Use of Your iPod Touch
Susan Ceppi Bussmann
Sandy Johnson
RETA/NMSU
Your iPod Touch is a
Portable Media Player
A Wireless Networking Device
Email Access Point
Audio and video Playback Machine
Back of iTouch contains serial number and
capacity
Power switch on top
Computer connection port and headphone
on bottom
Volume control on right side
Flash memory (32 or 64 GB for the iPod
touch)
WiFi capabilities (802.11b/g)
Safari Web browser
Audio and photo storage and playback
Video
Calendar and contacts that synch with your
computer
Clock and calculator applications
Access to the iTunes Music Store via WiFi
More than 140,000 apps you can install from
the App Store via WiFi or a wired computer
connection
Dock and headphone connections
Earphones
Accelerometer (allows the device to be
viewed sideways or shaken for games)
Touch home button to turn iTouch on
Navigate with the touch sensitive screen
Scroll by sliding finger up, down, or side to
side to move through different views
Arrange the icons on your home screen using
iTunes 9
Move an app up, over, or to another home
screen
Create up to 11 home screens-You can make
a different home screen for games,
applications, music or videos
Portrait mode-simple calculations
Landscape mode-scientific calculator
Tap “Settings”
Tap “Wallpaper”
Choosing “Wallpaper” again will show you
the photos for wallpaper that came with you
iPod
Choosing “Photo Library” will let you choose
a photo that you have added to your library
Choose the photo you want and tap “Set”
Songs and music videos from your iTunes
library
Buy and download new music over Wi-Fi
Download movies, TV shows, music videos
Audiobooks
Storage for 90,000 favorite photos
Scroll through photos
Play slideshows complete with music and
transitions
Email a photo
Share photos through MobileMe Gallery
(MobileMe is a purchased “over air” sync for your email, contacts, photos, storage, etc)
Built-in wireless access to the web
Wi-Fi access any website
iPod touch syncs your bookmarks from your
PC or Mac
Google and Yahoo! search built in
Access your email by setting up accounts on
the iTouch or through web mail
Use Notes on iPod touch to write yourself a
quick note
Keep important information on hand
Built-in email function lets you send notes to
yourself or others
Calendar works with Yahoo!, Google,
Microsoft Outlook, iCal, MobileMe, and
Microsoft Exchange
Add events from you iTouch
Set reminder alerts
Subscribe to calendars
Check weather worldwide
Add cities to get six-day forecasts
Tap the Y! (bottom left corner) to open a
Yahoo! city guide
Y! shows weather, local events, news, and
links for your specific city
Shows performance information for any
stock
Details on chosen stock by tapping the Y!
Show you previous closing, open, day’s
range, and 52 week range
Local headlines concerning
chosen stock
Math Tutor Lite- Practice basic math skills http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-tutor-lite/id325267195?mt=8
iFormulas - Contains formulas, definitions, laws and
properties for quick reference for a secondary level Math
class -http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iformulas/id346888659?mt=8
Sudoku –Math game
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/sudoku_orange.html
Basic Math - Skills drill app to practice basic math facts -
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashcard-champion-basic-math/id346684971?mt=8
Quick Graph - graphing calculator app -
http://itunes.apple.com/app/graphing-calculator/id289940142?mt=8
Units- Measurement converter -
http://www.apple.com/webapps/calculate/iconvert_luaoo.html
Miss Spell - Spelling game - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mispell-ormisspell/id334760675?mt=8
Amazon's Kindle - app turns your iPod Touch
into an e-reader and has free ebooks http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_iphone_mkt_lnd?docId=1000301301
Story Kit - International Children's Digital Library
App to create stories, add pictures, text, images
and sound clips - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8
Exam Vocabulary Builder Build - vocabulary
skills - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-exam-vocabulary-builder/id319052551?mt=8
Grammar Up - Game to test grammar skills
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-grammar-up/id299024911?mt=8
Dinosaurs - The American Museum of Natural History Collection dinosaur fossils as photos and recreations http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/american-museum-of-natural-history-releasesdinosaurs-app/
101 Science - quizzes 8-12 year olds Biology, Chemistry, Physics, General
Science and Earth Science - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/101-science/id334732710?mt=8
Science Glossary - Glossary of scientific terms and mini biographies of
scientists-in English and Spanish - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scienceglossary/id331657060?mt=8
The Chemical Touch - Periodic table including mass, density, boiling
points - http://www.notebooks.com/2010/07/19/emd-free-periodic-table-app-for-the-iphoneipodtouchipad-could-be-a-students-best-friend/
NASA - any space related project - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasaapp/id334325516?mt=8
iPresident - Presidents of the United States of America http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/usa-presidents/id317835093?mt=8
Fact of the Day - Educational facts - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fact-of-theday/id292966647?mt=8
Did You Know? - Useful and interesting facts - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Did-YouKnow-Educational-App-for-iPhone-Released-94411.shtml
This Day in History - Events in history -http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-in-historylite/id312028719?mt=8
Maps of the World - Historic maps from around the world http://www.appshouter.com/iphone-app-review-history-maps-of-the-world/
Factbook- 50 states, get maps, and find facts factbook-free/id305888083?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/usa-
AccelaStud - 16 different languages with the vocabulary, quizzes, flashcards http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-exam-vocabulary-builder/id319052551?mt=8
Lexicon - foreign languages - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frozen-lexicon/id300077933?mt=8
World Nomads Italian Language Guide - Common words and phrases - Speak Spanish Translate between Spanish and English - http://journals.worldnomads.com/languageguides/post/1273.aspx
Word Power Greek - 2000 Greek words and phrases http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpower-greek/id297778182?mt=8
iSign – Sign Language - American Sign Language or review the individual signs for A-Z and
1-9 - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/isign-lite/id292486900?mt=8
Collaborative Whiteboard
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whiteboard-lite-collaborative/id301962306?mt=8
Scribble
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribble/id312021341?mt=8
Color Tilt
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colortilt/id285024916?mt=8
Video
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=16472&version=7722&pageID=19376