This document provides an overview of the iPad hardware, gestures, and basic functions like browsing the web and typing. It covers the home button, sleep/wake button, orientation, accessories, settings, common gestures like tap, drag, flick, pinch, and tap and hold. It demonstrates how to use these gestures to interact with apps like Maps. It also explains typing, moving text with drag, and basic web browsing in Safari like entering URLs, bookmarks, and reading mode.
1. iPad I
Tiffany Brand, M.Ed.
Technology Instructor, Dover Adult Learning Center
t.brand@dalc-online.org
http://goo.gl/zJUkJF
2. • Instant on – no waiting for boot-up
• Long battery life
• Packs a lot in a small package – Internet, cameras,
document storage, content creation, games, …
• Apps, apps and more apps – many free, for so many
different tasks.
• “Walled Garden” – you can’t “see” your files like you
can on a hard drive. Everything is controlled by
individual apps and passed between them or to the
“Cloud”
What’s Different?
13. • Touch something on the iPad
screen quickly
• Uses:
• Open an app
• Activate a link (on a web
site)
• Move the insertion point to
type in a particular location
Tap
14. • Touch your finger to the
screen and drag it across the
screen.
• Uses:
• Scroll up and down
• Select text
Drag
15. • Tap on Maps
• Tap on the “Current Location” icon
• Drag up, down, right, and left to scroll the map around
slowly
• Press the Home button to go back to the home screen
Try it – Tap and Drag
16. • Drag your finger across
the screen and lift it up
quickly. Uses:
• Scroll quickly through a
long page - Tap
anywhere on the screen
to stop the scrolling
(Think of it as a spinning
wheel)
• Swipe on a list item to
Delete it (email)
Flick/Swipe
17. • Tap on Maps
• Tap on the “Current Location” icon
• Flick up, down, right, and left to scroll the map around
quickly
• Press the Home button to go back to the home screen
Try it – Flick/Swipe
18. • Using two fingers, drag them
in or out on the screen.
• Uses:
• Zoom in and out on an area
of the screen.
Pinch
19. • Tap on Maps
• Tap on the “Current Location” icon
• Pinch two fingers together to zoom in on an area of the
map
• Pinch two fingers out to zoom out
• Press the Home button to go back to the home screen
Try it – Pinch
20. • Press a finger on the screen and hold it there for a second.
• Uses:
• Selecting text
• Bringing up more options for an area on an app
• Rearranging app icons on the Home screens
Tap and Hold
21. • Tap and Hold on any app icon
• You’ll see them start to jiggle –
now you can drag them around
and rearrange them on your
Home screens
• Drag one to an edge to move it
to another Home screen
• Drag one on top of another to
organize them into a grouping.
• Press the Home button to
“stick” them in their new places
and stop editing them.
Try it – Tap and Hold
22. • On-screen keyboard
will appear whenever
you tap into an area
that you can type text
• Notes app, email, text
entry fields on web
pages, etc.
Typing
23. • Entering text – tap on a key on the on-screen keyboard.
Tap Shift for capital letters. Double-tap for caps lock.
Tap to see numbers & symbols.
Tap the symbol key to see
more symbols.
Typing
Backspace to delete
Hide the keyboard
Tap and hold
a character
to see
accents
24. • Tap on the screen to place the insertion point
• Tap, hold & drag to move the insertion point to a
particular place in the text.
• Tap and hold on a word to select it. Drag the selection
dots to increase/decrease your selection.
• Selected words can be copied (and then pasted elsewhere)
and you can access a dictionary to define them.
Typing
25. • Tap the Notes app
• Tap to begin a new note
• Type something into the note. Tap and Drag to move the
insertion point around to edit your text.
Try It - Typing
26. • To Print from an app, tap
and then
• iPads can Print to AirPrint-compatible printers on the
same wifi network
• If you have an old printer that is not AirPrint compatible,
you can install software on a computer connected to a
printer to enable iOS printing.
• For example: Presto by Collobos Software – runs on a
computer connected to a printer and allows iOS devices to
print to it. www.collobos.com
Printing
28. • Safari is the web
browser that comes
with the iPad
• Tap on the Safari icon
to launch it
Web Browsing in Safari
29. • Tap here and type to
enter a web address.
• Then tap Go.
• Drag in the main area
to scroll.
• Double tap to quickly
zoom in and out
• Or Pinch to zoom
Web Browsing
30. • Tap on a link to
follow it.
• Tap the Back arrow to
go back through
pages you have
visited
• Tap and hold on a link
to open it in a new
tab, copy it, or add it
to your reading list.
Web Browsing
31. • Tabs allow you to
browse more than one
web page at a time
• Tap the + to open a
new tab.
• Tap the tabs to switch
between them
• Tap the X on a tab to
close it
Web Browsing
32. • Type search terms in
the address field to
search the web.
• Google is the default
search engine – this
can be changed in the
settings
Web Searching
33. • On web pages with
articles, the Reader
button appears in the
address bar.
• Tap
to see the
article blown up full
screen for easy reading
• Tap it again to go back
to the web page view.
Reader
34. • Tap the Share button to
• Add a page to your
Bookmarks
• Add a button to the page
on your Home screen
• Save the page to your
Reading List to read
offline
• Share the page through
email, iMessage, or
social media
• Print the page to an
AirPrint compatible
printer.
Bookmarking in Safari
35. • Tap the Bookmarks button
to
• See your list of Bookmarks
• See your browsing history
• See your Reading List
Bookmarking in Safari
36. • Tap the Edit button to
• Organize your
bookmarks into folders
• Rearrange your
bookmarks
• Delete bookmarks
Organizing Bookmarks
37. • Navigate to a web page with an address
• Search for a topic on the web
• Open multiple web pages in tabs and switch between
them
• Bookmark a page
• Create a folder for some bookmarks
• Pin a page to your Home Screen
Try It - Safari
38. •
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Tap Safari
Tap Bookmark button
Tap iPad User Guide
If your bookmark is not
there, go to:
help.apple.com/ipad/6/
or
help.apple.com/ipad/7/
iPad User Guide
39. • iPad Basics Tutorial:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ipadbasics
• Lots of iPad information and Tutorials:
http://ipad.about.com/
• iPad news - http://www.theipadguide.com/
• iPads 4 Schools - http://ipad4schools.org/
More sites and resources from this workshop
iPad Websites
http://goo.gl/zJUkJF
Status BarYour connection 3g/4g or WiFiTimeBattery LifeApp IconsCustomizable – will look different depending on what apps you have loaded and how you have arranged themHome ButtonAlways brings you back to the home screenFront CameraUsed for FaceTime calls, Skype, etc. or just to take a photo of yourself!Multi-Touch ScreenInteract with the iPad/Apps with multi-touch gestures
Sleep/WakePress & hold to turn the iPad on or offPress to wake up the iPad from sleepDock ConnectorCharge the iPad or connect accessories (camera connection, video out, etc.)Side SwitchMute the iPad
When scrolling, drag like you are “pushing” the screen up or down.In some apps, like maps, you can drag in all directions.
