iPad and 2Screens

Presenting lectures with iPad and 2Screens

Display, annotate, browse, or write-freehand with 2Screens on an iPad tablet. Using files from Microsoft Office or Apple iWorks; or files (pdf), images and video from the web you can present to your students or audience through the lightweight iPad with a VGA/HDMI adaptor. With an additional pen stylus, pages can be annotated or new pages written, live in class. Files in 2Screen are displayed on tabs, so it is easy to switch among different content pages, jumping from a slide tab to a whiteboard tab for example, to work on a problem or exercise.

2Screens Presentation Expert Overview

Demonstration of 2Screens app

The youtube video above is courtesy of 2Screens.

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Specific points in the video:

Information

Home page for 2Screens - Presentation Expert
User manual for 2Screens - Presentation Expert
FAQ for 2Screens - Presentation Expert
Menu layout for 2Screens
Some 2Screen reviews:
- touchmyapps (note comment about animations from keynote and powerpoint slides not able to display in 2Screens)
- itunes
- topappreviews
iPad connectors:
Options for projecting the iPad display (note comment about loose VGA connector)
Jot (thin line) stylus pens for iPad
Dropbox homepage and Dropbox on the Apple app store

Thanks to 2Screens for the screenshot images and video and to Thorsten Dieckmann (Chemistry, UW) who showed me how he teaches with the iPad and 2Screens in his Chemistry classes. A demonstration by Professor Dieckmann on this topic is being held on Monday April 29th, 2013 in room B1-271 from 10:30-noon. (Slides from the demonstration "The iPad for Teaching".)

Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
Last modification date: Thu 29 May 2014 09:49:21 AM EDT