This document provides an overview of topics to be covered in a presentation about getting comfortable using an iPad. The presentation will cover various iPad models and operating systems, navigating the desktop interface and settings, enabling WiFi, using the App Store, and downloading ebooks. It details steps for accessing basic device settings, enabling WiFi, changing wallpaper and sounds, setting privacy options, using iCloud, downloading apps from the App Store, taking photos, bookmarking websites, and downloading ebooks from the OverDrive app using a library account. Attendees are reminded that WiFi must be enabled to access the web, download content, and use apps, and an Adobe Digital Editions account may be needed for first-time

1. Getting Comfortable with your
iPad
Presented by Kathy Petlewski
Plymouth District Library
2014

2. Topics We’ll Cover
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Various Makes and Models of iPads
Operating Systems for iPads
Looking at the Desktop
Making sense of the Settings
Enabling WiFi
Shopping in the App Store
Downloading ebooks to your device.

3. First Look at your iPad – IOS 7

4. iPad with IOS version 4

5. Getting to Your Basic Settings

6. Basic Settings for old IOS 4

7. Looking at the Settings

8. Let’s Go Through General Settings

9. Learning “About” your iPad

10. Enabling up your Wi-Fi

11. Tweaking Your Sounds

12. Changing or Setting Wallpaper

13. Guarding Your Privacy

14. Safeguarding Your Location

15. The iCloud

16. iCloud Storage & Backup

17. Mail, Contacts & Calendars

18. Safari Settings

19. Passwords on Safari

20. iTunes and App Store

21. Photos & Camera

22. Viewing Photo Grid

23. Sharing One or More Photos

24. Bookmarks & Favorites

25. Bookmarking a Favorite

26. Saving Your Bookmark

27. All about Apps

28. Choosing An App Category

29. Choose Overdrive App
Your OverDrive
Media Console
should say
“Free”. If you
already have it
on your
device, it will say
“Open.”

30. Add A Library to Your App.
You can find a
library by
name, city or
postal zip code.
Plymouth belongs
to a consortium
called “Midwest
Collaborative for
Library
Services”, or MCLS
for short.

31. Going to the MCLS Site
Please sign in
first to see full
catalog of
materials
available to
Plymouth
residents!

32. Sign In First

33. Choose Settings to set Loan Periods.

34. Looking at all fiction ebooks
Click to
show
only
titles
currently
available.
Click on the
bookmarks to
add to your wish
list!

35. Ebook fiction currently available

36. Check Available Formats

37. Download Options

38. Select EPUB format

39. Your ebook is now dowloaded

40. Things to Remember
• You must have your Wi-Fi enabled to surf web, download
ebooks and get to the App Store.
• You will have to a username and password for Adobe Digital
Editions the first time you download from OverDrive. This is a
free registration.
• Not all printers will work wirelessly with iPads. Apple
maintains a list on their web site.
• Don’t forget your Apple id and password. You will need it to
download apps and upgrade your IOS.
• It’s a “Use it or Lose it” set of skills. The more you use it, the
more comfortable you will become with it.

41. Time for Questions & Comments
Thanks for attending !