iPad for Seniors: No Grandchild Needed to Set Up Your iPad

1. Engage with the Course: I am so excited to bring you this course, iPad for seniors, no grandchild needed to set up your iPad. You'll learn to set up your iPad, to navigate and control it, and to Customize iPad features to make it work easier for you. I will patiently walk you through using your iPad, letting you explore and play along the way. You will complete challenges designed to help you gain confidence using your iPad and after this course, you will be comfortable using your iPad independently. Why might you take this course? Well, you might have just bought an iPad or considering buying an iPad. You're scared of setting the iPad up yourself. You might want to become more comfortable using an iPad or you might want to use tips and tricks for using an iPad to help you become more confident using it or you're tired of watching your kids or grandchildren on their iPad and wish that you knew how to use it too. I help seniors experience what is possible when using an iPad. First, my simple, clear explanations and videos will show you how to use your iPad. Next, my teaching method allows you to watch the videos while I explain and model the techniques. Then I guide you to do the techniques along with me, and finally, you practice and explore using the techniques, complete challenges or projects and learn a bunch along the way. I don't mind if you pause and rewind me in the video, I'm here to help you become more comfortable and confident using your iPad. In this course, I will compare the iPad models to help you choose an iPad based on the features that will work best for you. I will walk you through setting up your iPad without a grandchild doing it for you. I will explain the features and processes along the way. I'll give you a tour of the iPad buttons and guide you as you use tap, drag, and swipe to navigate your iPad. We'll rearrange icons and discover what widgets are and how you can effectively use them. I'll show you how to use the Control Center to easily access iPad features and how to add features like the Magnifier that will make it even easier for you to use your iPad. You will personalize your iPad by changing the name of your iPad, the look of your screen Image, the date, time and much more. I'll show you how to dictate to your iPad and it will type your words and how to have your iPad read to you. Those are cool features. The course contains a guide that I prepared for you so that you can take notes, have resources, and complete the exercises to help you learn. This course is for you if you have never used an iPad or you're a beginner. It is not for you if you have used an iPad before and you're comfortable with it or if you're an advanced user although, those users may learn a tip or two. I'm Gayle Berthiaume, creative inspirer, learning specialist, artist, author, photographer, wife, mom, grandmother, and senior citizen. I am an Apple Distinguished Educator with a master's degree in curriculum and instruction, who has provided courses and training for teachers and businesses throughout the world. I also taught kindergarten, first and second grade, for 35 years. I ran an online technique academy to share technology and art techniques, tips, and online courses. Check out the website at technique.academy and grab our free B's, skills which you will need to get started in this course. An iPad, the newer, the better. The first lesson though is comparing the different iPad models to help you decide which iPad model to buy if you don't already have one. Internet, you'll need the name of your Internet network and the password. Apple ID and password, don't worry if you don't have one, I'll show you how to create a free Apple ID and password. Download the guide that I will provide, I will show you how to download these and to print them if you need to. I would recommend watching this course on a different device, like in computer or your phone so that you can follow along on your iPad. However, if that doesn't work for you, you can always watch the video and then pause it while you practice on your iPad. I can't wait to get into the course with you. Let's get started. 2. Help! I Don't Know Which iPad to Buy!: For this class, you definitely need an iPad. Many people have told me that it's too confusing to figure out which iPad that they should buy. In this lesson, I'm going to provide an easy-to-understand explanation of each model and help you decide which model might work for you. Let's check them out. Here are five current iPad models. I didn't add the prices because I want you to think about the features that you need first. Think about if you would use the features as we go along. Don't worry if you don't know how to use them. I hope you'll learn later in the course or in other courses. The iPad Pro models are the top of the line. They are the fastest, most powerful, and have the most beautiful sharp images. They come in a 12.9-inch model, which is about the size of a sheet of printer paper, and the 11-inch model. The largest screen may work for you to see it better and have more screen space to make it easier to manipulate. The iPad Air is about the same size as the iPad Pro 11 inch. It is fast and powerful, but not as fast and powerful as the iPad Pro models. The iPad Air is a comfortable size to use. The iPad is slightly smaller than the iPad Air, with the iPad Mini being the smallest model. All are amazing, empowering devices. I'm able to put these models in my purse, but I guess it depends on how large your bag is. You can choose what color you want on the back of the device. This doesn't affect the performance of the iPad, but it is fun. All of the models come with either Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi plus cellular. This means that they can all connect to the internet. With Wi-Fi plus cellular, you can either connect to the internet or to use cell phone network. Of course, the Wi-Fi plus cellular cost more. However, it is a solution if you don't have a strong Internet connection. All of the iPad models are powerful. However, the iPad Pro models are the most powerful. Why would this matter to you? Well, if you added a lot of photos or a video or play intense video games, you'll want that iPad Pro for more power and performance. The more storage, the more apps, photos, and videos your iPad can hold. I always tell people to get the most that you can afford. You can't upgrade storage in the future without buying a whole new iPad. The iPad Pro models can hold up to two terabytes, while the iPad Air, iPad, and iPad mini max out at 256 gigabytes. Just for reference, my iPad has 64 gigabytes. I have 21 apps, about 850 short videos, and 35,000 photos. I take a lot of photos, don't I? For a casual user, 64 gigabytes should be sufficient. However, buy the most that you can afford. The iPad models all last about nine to 10 hours on a fully charged battery. If you are doing a lot of photo editing or watching a lot of videos, the battery will go down faster. I'll show you later in this course how to view how much battery is left in your iPad. You do want to remember to charge your iPad when the battery gets low so that it's ready when you need it. Charging it when it's 70 or 50% won't hurt it. Lithium ion batteries have no memory effect. What Apple does recommend is once a month let the battery drain down until it shuts itself off, then charge it fully. All of the iPad models come with a back camera for taking photos, and a front camera for taking selfies, photos of yourself and others. They're all good cameras that can take beautiful photos, however, the better and the best ones are sharper and better quality. The iPad takes really good photos. The iPad Mini and the iPad Air photos, are even better and the iPad Pro models are the best quality. The front and back cameras also record video. They are used for FaceTime when you talk to your family or friends and see them through your iPad. In a different class. I'll show you how to use FaceTime. Watch for that class in the future. When deciding on which iPad to buy, you may also want to think about adding a few accessories. These are purchased separately and totally optional. All of the iPad models are navigated using your fingers. However, an Apple pencil makes it easier to navigate and to write on your iPad. I use mine for writing notes and for drawing. You'll see me using it in this course. Another helpful optional accessory is a keyboard for your iPad. The iPad does have a built-in screen keyboard that you can type on by touching the keys with your fingers or with your Apple pencil. However, if you're used to typing on a keyboard, they'll find it much easier to type using an iPad keyboard. All of the following keyboards, also our cases for your iPad to protect it. The magic Keyboard also has a trackpad along with the traditional keyboard. The smart keyboard folio is a case stand and traditional typing keyboard. Both of these options work with the iPad Pro and the iPad Air models. The Smart keyboard works with the iPad Air and iPad, and there's is a case with a keyboard. The backside of the case folds up to make a stand. Two AirPods or headphones, maybe necessary if you use your iPad in a noisy area, or if you need them to hear videos better. There are wireless ones that connect to Bluetooth or their headphones that connect to the headphone jack on your iPad. With newer iPad models, you will need an adapter for your headphones. Again, I'll add these links to the resource handout that will download later. Let's compare cost. These base prices are current on Apple.com and will vary if you add more storage or Wi-Fi cellular. If you want more information about all the iPad models, the comparisons with all the technical specifications that's on Apple's websites. Or here's the link. I'll add this link to our resource handout that I'll show you how to download later on in the course. That was a lot of information. Hopefully, it gave you some ideas of how to choose the iPad that will work best for you. Now, it's time for you to go out and buy your iPad because you need it for this course. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to set up your new iPad without any grandchildren to help you. See you then. 3. Setting Up Your iPad Without a Grandchild: Welcome back. I hope you were able to find an iPad that will work for you. Today's lesson, I want you to be motivated and excited to use this new iPad. I will guide you through the tour of the iPad and show you where the buttons are and the speaker and the camera, and then we will get started on setting your iPad up. I want you to know that I will be using security net and I will help guide you through the whole process. You don't have to be worried about it. My teaching style is that I will first show you where things are and then you'll have some time to do it on your own. If I go too fast, which I'll try not to do, but if I go too fast, all you have to do is on this video, push the pause button and do what you need to do to catch up with us, or push the pause button and go have a cup of coffee, and then come back when you're ready. This is the beauty of online learning. Then all you do is push the play button and you're ready to go again. Let's get started. You can do this. I know you can, and we'll do it together. For this lesson, you will need your Internet name, your Internet password, your Apple ID username, your Apple ID password. If you don't have an Apple ID, decide what you would like your username and password to be when we create it later in this lesson. It's time for a turban iPad. I'm going to show and tell you all about the buttons and features on the outside of an iPad. Sit back and watch secure or press pause if you want to stop and find the buttons and features in your iPad. Please don't start up your iPad yet though. When we finish this short tour, then we'll turn on our iPads and set them up. Thanks for patiently waiting. The iPad power button is on the top edge of your iPad. I know that's near to back camera, so I can use the camera to find the top edge. There are speakers also on the top and on the bottom edges. Look for the roles of holes on the top and bottom edges. Those are the speakers. Depending on your iPad model, the back camera may look like one of these. The iPad front camera is hard to see. It is on the screen side at the top. Look for a little hole about where my finger is pointing. The front camera is great for taking pictures of yourself or when using FaceTime to talk to family and friends. We will learn how to use FaceTime in another class. There is a headphone jack at the top edge of some of the iPad models. Other models, you'll need a USB-C to 3.5 millimeter headphone jack adapter. It plugs into your USB-C port, where you plug in your charging cable. On the side edge near the power button, are the volume buttons. The button closer to the power button is the loader button, and the button farther away is quieter volume button. On some of the iPad models, there is a home button. This is the circle button on the screen above where you plug in your charger. Other models don't have a home button. They have a white bar at the bottom to swipe up to open or to go to the home screen, but they do have a USB-C charging port. Remember to keep your iPad charged, so they're always ready to use. Be sure to charge your iPad with the charger that came with it. You plug it in on the bottom edge of your iPad. I like to label my technology chords with my name so that my grandchildren don't take it, or so that I know it's mine if I've gone to a meeting. Let's get started. You can do this. I know you can, and we'll do it together. Press and hold the device's power button until you see the Apple logo startup. When you see the hello screen, you are going to press the home button or slide your finger across the screen, depending on which model you have. We're going to choose what language that we want to use. I'm going to choose English. Next, switch select a country or region. You can scroll down. All I'm doing is dragging my finger up and down on the glass on the screen. I'm going to choose United States, and then Quickstart, I'm going to set up mine manually. Now we get to choose our Wi-Fi network, and I see already that it has found my network just automatically. I am going to choose Berthiaume because that's my home network. Now I need to put in my password and then I'll join. I know it's trained the network because there's a blue check by it. Then after that we're going to choose Next. It's going to take a few minutes to activate my iPad. Data privacy means whenever you see these hands shaking, it means that what you are sharing is private. You can learn more by clicking on the Learn More. I'm going to just continue, and now I get to set up my Touch ID. Depending on your iPad model, you can set up Face ID or Touch ID. With these features, you can use face recognition or your fingerprint to unlock your device and to make purchases. Going to continue with now, I need to place my finger on the Home button, and I'm going to choose my thumb because that's the one I usually will start up this iPad with. If you don't have this Home button right here, then your model might need to use the power button up at the top so that you would tap your tab button. I'm going to do my home button and all I'm doing is resting way finger lifting it up, resting it, lifting it up, resting it. I'm just going tapping gently, not pushing down. Now it says keep going to capture the edges of your print. I'm going to be rolling my finger around until it gets all of the edges. Keep it on the home button until it tells me to lift. I was going a little bit too fast. Now it says I'm complete. Touch ID is ready. I can use my thumbprint to unlock my iPad. Now I need to create a passcode because occasionally your passcode will be required for validations before your Touch ID will work. When your iPad restarts, you need to put in your passcode first. Now I have some choices. I can backup my data from an iCloud account but because this is a new iPad, I don't have my data backed up in iCloud. I'm going to select, Don't Transfer Apps & Data. This right here down the bottom. If I already have an Apple ID from a different iPad I would use that to log in. For this training, I want to show you how to create a brand new Apple ID. I'm going to select forgot password or don't have an Apple ID. If I forgot my password, it will let me change my password. But I want to create a free Apple ID. I need to type in my first name and my last name. I'm going to select a date and then edit the video, so don't get so many birthday cards. You can use your email if you have an email or you can create an Apple ID with a free iCloud email. You need to think of an Apple ID that you'd like to use. I'm going to say I don't have an email address and press this blue line right here. I want to get an iCloud email address. It's free. Now my email will be ipadforseniors@icloud.com. You're going to choose something different but then leave the @icloud.com there. If you choose not to get Apple news and announcements, you can slide the white circle over until the green is covered up. When I'm done, I'm going to select next and hopefully, that email will be available. If not, it'll bring it back to the screen and I'll try a different one. Yes, I want to create that email, and then I need to put in a password. You'll need to type it in twice to verify it the second time to make sure that you typed it the same. Make sure that you write down your new email and password so that you can remember them next time you need to log in. I'm going to press Next. For this one, you'll need to type in your phone number so they can send you a text message or a phone call that will verify your identity and they'll send you a verification code. The terms and conditions, you can read through this and then when you're done, you're going to tap Agree. Now it's taking a few minutes to create my new Apple ID. Yes, I want to keep my iPad up-to-date. It will automatically update itself if I press Continue. Location services allows your iPad to give you your local community news, your weather, and your maps based on where you're located. I would like that. I'm going to enable location services. With Apple Pay, you can plug in your credit card information and then pay with you your Touch ID whenever you buy things on the Internet. But right now, I'm going to just continue and we'll set that up later. Set Up Later in Settings is what I'm going to press. The information is in your keychain and it's encrypted and cannot be read by Apple. That's not your keychain for your car. That's the keychain in the system of the iPad. I do want that because I want it to remember my password just in case I forget them. Siri helps you get things done just by asking. First thing we're going to do is select a Siri voice. Here's what voice number 1 sounds like. Hi, I'm Siri. Choose the voice you'd like me to use. You can change it later in settings. Here's what voice number 2 sounds like. Hi, I'm Siri. Choose the voice you'd like me to use. You can change it later in settings. Number 3. Hi, I'm Siri. Choose the voice you'd like me to use. You can change it later in settings. Number 4. Hi, I'm Siri. Choose the voice you'd like me to use. You can change it later in settings. I think I'm going to choose voice number 1. We press Next. Now, Siri needs to learn what my voice sounds like. I'm going to say what's in the quotation marks. "Hey Siri. " "Hey Siri, send a message." "Hey Siri, how's the weather today?" "Hey Siri, set a timer for three minutes." "Hey Siri, play some music." Now Hey Siri is ready. We'll press Continue. You can decide if you want Apple didn't have access to your Siri and dictation to help make improvements in the apps. For right now, I'm going to say not now. Screen time gives you insights into how much time you, your kids, or grandkids spend on your devices. It also lets you set time limits for daily app use. I'm going to wait and set up that at some other time if I decide I need it. Nope, I'm not going to press Continue. I'm going to press Set Up Later in Settings. Analytics, this allows you to choose if you want to help Apple to improve its products and services. Right now I'm going to say, please don't share my information. True tone lets you choose how you view your iPad. You can have it with a light appearance and then you also have the choice of a dark appearance. My eyes like the contrast better when I choose light. But you can totally decide which one you want. When you're done deciding press Continue. Now it says, welcome to iPad. Get started. I'm so excited. You did it. You set up your iPad without a grandchild to help. I'm so proud of you. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to personalize your iPad so that it works easier for you. See you then. 4. Download the Course Guide: [MUSIC] To download this course guidance in Skillshare on your iPad, scroll down until you find the projects and resources and select it by tapping on the words under the "Create Project" button, you will find the course guide, select it, and it will automatically download. We will save the course guide on your iPad. At the very top of your course guide, you will find a share square select it by tapping on it. In the pop-up menu, scroll by dragging up softly on the screen until you see "Save to files", tap on, "Save to files". On the next screen, type of name for the folder where you will store your course guide. Tap on "Done". Your folder is now ready on your iPad. To save your course guide, tap "Save". To find your course guide from the home screen, tap on the "Files" icon, then tap on "My iPad", then tap on "Your folder". Next, tap on the "iPad for seniors course guide". You will see little thumbnail pages on the side of your page. You can tap on the thumbnail to choose one of the pages. Drag the thumbnails up or down to see more pages. Find the second thumbnail. On your iPad, you can write on a PDF to fill in blanks or to take notes, select "Markup" in the upper right. The markup tools will appear on your screen. If they appear as a pencil in a circle, tap on it to open up all of the tools. Tap on the pencil tool to select it with either your finger or an Apple pencil. You can use either your finger or an Apple pencil to write on the course guide, tap "Done" and iPad will save what you wrote. If you want to print the course guide from your iPad, you will need a wireless printer. Open your course guide, select the share square, scroll until you find "Print" and select it. If you are connected to a printer, it will appear. You may want to print the course guide in black and white to save ink, you can also select "Double-sided" to save paper. After selecting the pages you want to print, tap "Print" in the top right. You may want to print from your iPad or from your computer so that you have the handout available to take notes on with a paper and pencil. [MUSIC] 5. How to Navigate Your iPad : Welcome to navigating and controlling your iPad. In this lesson, you will become more comfortable using your iPad. You will learn the gestures to navigate your iPad and you'll learn how to be in control of it. In the last lesson, you set up your iPad. You don't need to do that again. From now on, when you turn on your iPad, you will see the home screen. Take some time to read the screen. When I work with young students, the first thing they do is to look at everything on the screen. They read the entire screen. I would like you to do that now too. I'll be asking you if you've found features, so look carefully. I'll give you a little time. Did you find the date and time? Did you find them in more than one place? Did you find how much battery you have available? Are you connected to the Internet? One place you can find this information is in the status bar at the top of your screen. On the top left of your iPad screen, you will find the tiny date and time. On the top right, you'll find the icons for your cellular connection. If you have the Wi-Fi + cellular iPad model, or your Wi-Fi connection, the battery percentage, and a battery level icon. Let me read the rest of the screen with you. The larger icons are widgets, that's right here. They're pinned to stay on your homepage. Later in this lesson, we'll address the widgets further and customize them for you. The smaller icons are built-in iPad apps. We'll play with them later in this lesson too. At the bottom, you'll see the dock. On the left side of the dock, are apps that are most used and stay there to make them convenient to find. I'll show you how to change them later in the lesson also. Can you find that small vertical line, and it's really faint on the dock? Or it separates your most used apps from the recently used apps. Your recently used apps will change depending on which apps you've used. On the very right, you'll find the app library, which gives you easy access to all the apps on your whole iPad. I would like to simplify my home screen by moving apps so that's easier for me to find the apps. Sit back for a minute and just watch what I do, it's my turn. I want to change how they're laid out, to do this, I'm going to tap and hold an icon. Anyone doesn't matter which one. I keep on going until they start jiggling. When I taught kindergarten, the little sweeties would jiggle right along with the apps. I can just see some of you jiggling right now too. You see that they all have minus signs in the top left corner. If I tap on the minus sign, I get a menu that asks me if I want to delete the app, remove it from the home screen or cancel. If I delete the app, I'll have to go back to the app store and download it again if I want it back. If I remove it from the home screen, it's just going to be into app library and it will not appear on your home screen. That's another option. If I cancel, I'll just go back again. I'm going to cancel this. You were watching me do it, now let's do that process together. Let's do it again. To move or remove apps, you tap and hold on an app until they start to jiggle. Then I tap on a minus sign. Let's see for right now, I don't need my Apple TV, so I'll tap on the minus sign and I can delete that app, I can remove it from the home screen, or I can cancel it. I don't need the Apple TV right now, so I'm going to remove it from the home screen just so that I will simplify my home screen, not as quite so much to look at. Now, I would find that one in my app library. We'll look in a second. When I'm done, way at the very top, you're going to tap "Done" to get them to stop wiggling. If I wanted to get that Apple TV back again, I can tap on my app library and then I'm going to go to entertainment, tap on there. Come on. There's my Apple TV. I can still get to it when I'm ready to use it. I'll press "Pause" on this video and practice getting the apps to jiggle and press "Done" to go back to the home screen. Come back to me in this lesson when you're ready. How did you do? It's not too hard, is it? We're ready to move on to another controlling your iPad skill. I like to simplify my home screen by moving apps so that it's easier for me to find them. Sit back for a minute and watch just what I do. It's my turn first. If I want to move the settings, I'm going to get it so it wiggles, and then I'm just going to drag it down and see all the other ones move aside and let them in. Here we go, let go, and we're done. Then I can press "Done." That one's easy. I know that I don't use the music very often, so I'm going to remove the music from my doc and I can remove it totally or I can just drag it to my home screen. I want to move an app. I'm going to hold and tap on the apps and then jiggle, and don't let my finger up. I'm going to drag that app all the way onto the black side of my iPad until the next page appears. There it is. Too fast. Let me go back again. Then I can just let go and it will stay on this page now. When I'm done, I tap "Done." To get back to the home screen I push my "Home" button. That cleared up a little bit more. Let's move another app. I'm going to put my finger on books and start moving it. See how they all start wiggling, and then I'm going to drag it, there it is. Let go. I'm going to press "Done." Now I want to get back to my home screen. I can either do the home button or I can swipe quickly to the motion. To swipe is just like you're going to turn a page really fast. I'm going to swipe to move to the other page. I put my finger in the glass and just lightly flick it over. There it is, it moves to the other screen. That's a gesture called swiping. You need that to go back and forth. Now that I've shown you how to move an app, let me talk you through the process. Let's do it together. I'm going to move my files app to the next page. First thing I do is I find my files and I tap and hold, and then I start to drag until I get to the next page. Let go and press "Done." Easy. Then I can swipe it to go back to the beginning. We're going to pause now and give you time to practice moving apps and changing pages. When you are ready to move on, come back and press "Play." Glad you're back. Make sure that you are on the home screen. You can get there by swiping up on the horizontal white bar at the bottom of the screen or by pressing the home button, depending on your iPad model. You have learned quite a bit so far. You know how to tap to select. You know how to tap and hold. I'd have to get it to jiggle. You know how to remove it by pressing the minus. You know how to move it to another screen, I'll move it back. You know how to move it down onto the doc. You know how to swipe the screen to get to another page. All of these gestures are how you navigate an iPad. You are ready to control your iPad. Let's go. But before you go on to the next lesson, I have a challenge for you. I want you to practice navigating and becoming comfortable with your iPad. 6. Effectively Use Your Widgets: You have seen the widgets, remember, I said that we will learn about them later. The widgets give you quick access to information. You can control your widgets on your today view, let me show you how. To get to your today's view, you're going to start on the side of your iPad and just drag slowly and magically, more widgets will appear. Let's talk about what these widgets do. I'm going to go back by tapping on the home screen, and then we'll come back here later and edit them. The two largest ones are called stacks. If I go very slowly and softly up, they will change into other widgets. Some of them like photos, I don't have any photos on my iPad right now, so they turn out blanks, I really don't need that. Reminders, yeah, I like reminders, I can have my grocery list here or medication schedule, or reminders to go pick up somebody from an appointment, or to go to an appointment. This one I know is a stack too. On top is the news, if I go slowly again, now I have the map of North America and no content available. Again, that's a widget that I don't have anything in, so it does make sense to have it in here right now. We're going to change that. But if I want to see the North American closer, I can tap on the magnifying glass, and it will open up that app. Well, it tells me what's new in map, but I can read through that, but I'm just going to press Continue and allow maps to use my location. Yes, I want them to use my location when I'm using the app. Help improve maps, allow map to use your significant locations, sure, they can improve their apps based on me. The keyboard popped up, so I could type in Minneapolis. Now I'm going to get directions, so I can go see how far it is from my house to Minneapolis. I have to be safe and get there safely. I know it's going to take me 23 hours and 38 minutes. Oh, dear, there is a winter storm whirring along the way. I'll have to take a detour. I'm not going right now. But if I did, I could just press Go, and it would automatically give me directions to drive by. But if I want to zoom in on Minneapolis, I can just drag on the screen, and then I want to zoom in close. To zoom in close, I take my two fingers and I just start spreading them apart as I'm touching the screen, and it zooms in, which is pretty handy. For when I want to see things closely. I could go in and go all the way down. Let's see if there is fish in the lake. No. If I tap up at the very top, I can change it to the satellite view. Now, maybe I could find those fish in the lake. But see how you can zoom right in. Try plugging in your address and seeing which your host looks like from the satellite, is cool. We could spend a long time on maps. I'm just going to give you the basics today, you can play with and explore that one. When you're done, you're going to press the Home Button and get back to your widget. Allow maps to use your location, yes, I want them to use my location so that it will give me driving directions from where I'm. If I tap on notes, I can just take notes of it, add almost anything. I'll just go through, and I can start typing in some notes here. If I tap on the screen, the keyboard comes up, and then I can type in whatever note I want to type in. If I want to get rid of the keyboard, I tapped on the keyboard screen to put it away. We'll go more into notes in another class. This is the calendar widget. If I tap on that, it gives me my calendar. I've got the day, the week, the month, or the year. Clock. The time gives me my world clock, where my alarm clock. I don't have any alarm setup. I can tap on the plus sign and add an alarm. I want to get up at 6:00 AM, and I think I'll sleep until 7:30 tomorrow. You just scroll up until it says 6:30. Then if I want to snooze, and then save it when it's done, and now I have an alarm. It's turned on right now. If I don't want it to ring in the morning, I just turn it off. There's a stopwatch that allows me to time, or there's a timer. If I want a timer for 15 minutes or 10 minutes or how many ever, I just drag these around, and then I say start, and it starts my timer for me. Pretty easy to use. I'm going to click Done, so it stops it. Then press my Home Button to go back. Let's edit these. I don't want some of these on here. I don't want this one. Again, if I tap and hold, they start to jiggle, and then I can get rid of that. Remove the whole stack, yes, because I'm going to show you how easy it is to add it back on here again. Remove. Let's also remove this big one. Just not sure if I want that on there right now. That gives me quite a few less, that cleaned up by screen to start with. I'm going to press Done. Now, if I bring out my today's view, well let me look at today and say, what's going on? Or something that's really easy access. I know I don't have photos in here right now, so I probably want to get rid of that until I get photos to look at. Same thing with screen time, to get rid of an app. Same thing, we hold. Did you see how it popped up, remove app? Otherwise, we just hold, do the minus sign and click Remove. I'm going to also remove the photos. That stack. I do want to keep the weather and the battery level. My battery only has 17 percent, that's why it's plugged in right now. But I want to add some more, and I want to be able to edit these. I'm going to press this plus sign up here at the top, plus. It gives me a list, and other views of widgets that I can add. Smart Stack will change to different apps, and they'll just keep rotating. In this Smart Stack, I can put my weather and some photos and the map in it and will just rotate throughout the day. Which is great for sometimes, but sometimes I want everything to stay where I know it. I'm going to not use that one. App Store that gives me easy access to go download new apps. Batteries, I like that level. I like knowing how much battery is left easily on it because the one up in the top-right corner on the home screen is too little for me to see. Now, other views that I can have. I can have this view, and I know there's more views because there's three dots. I can scroll with my fingers, so I can have my iPad. If my phone is connected to it or nearby, I would have my phone here and maybe buy AirPods or my Apple Pencil. It allows me to have four devices and check under battery level at all times. That's a good thing, but let's see. Well, I can have a list of all the devices that I have. I think for right now because I don't have any other devices that I need, that this one is perfect. I will just stay right there. Now, it's already up there, so I don't need to add it to my today's view. Calendar. Again, well, that you have different views, you can choose and change those of how you want. It will have all your events right there if you choose list. I could add that to my daily 1, 2 that I have one of my whole screen, and I'd have one back on my today's view. I'll do that one. Now, I want to add some more. The clock. With the clock and editing the clock, I can have clock, or I can have the city. I know there's two more choices because there's two more dots. I can have the world clock. Oh, I might do that one, and I can have the world clock with descriptions there. I want to have different areas of the world on my screen. I'm going to add that widget, and then I'm going to click Done, and now I need to edit that widget. I tap, hold and select Edit widget. I don't need Cupertino. Let me put my timeline here, I'm close to Miami. I'm going to type in Miami. Oops, spelled it wrong. Miami, here it is. Then my daughters live in Seattle. I want that time up here so I don't call them when they're sleeping. Then my sisters and brothers live in Minneapolis. When you are there, I'm going to type in Minneapolis. There we go. I do have friends that I keep track of quite often who are in Sydney, Australia, which I had just deleted, but I'll add it back again. Whenever I bring up my today's view, I can see at home it's 3:30, in Seattle it's 12:30, Minneapolis is 2:30, and Sydney is 7:30. Let's go back to edit some more and see what else we have for choices. If I go back to Edit, and I go back up to my plus sign, I think maybe I want to have maps available really fast. I'm just going to leave it as a small one, and just tap on widget right away to have one down here. Can I going to go back and edit the weather one. It's my local weather instead of Cupertino. If I hold on it and edit widget. I'm going to indicate the forecast and instead of Cupertino, if tap on Cupertino, it'll give me my location. I'm going to tap off that over here on the screen, and it changed to Englewood. That's where I'm today, it's 78 degrees, and you see the high and the low, and the forecast for today. Nice. We have learned a lot about widgets and I did go fairly fast, but it's really pretty easy as far as just tapping and dragging because you've got that idea and holding and selecting which one do you want. Then making choices, and playing, go in and explore, see what the apps do, what they look like. I gave you a tour of the widgets and showed you how to use them. I'm not going to go through and have you do them with me this time. I'm going to just let you explore and play with them. You know how to get rid of them, do you remember? If I don't want that one, I could just hold it and wait for the minus, click Done when you're done. I can't find the Edit button. You may need to grab one of these and just drag up. Oh, and there it was hiding down below. Now, if I click on Edit, I can go back, and I can change around things. I want you to go and explore. I want you to add widgets and remove some widgets, move widgets around, just play with them for a while. When you're done, come on back to me, and we'll learn about the control center. See you later. 7. Control Your iPad: The Control Center is where you control the volume, brightness of your iPad, access Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth controls, and other iPad controls. Let's look at the Control Center, and how it works. I'm going to swipe down from the upper right-hand corner. I usually start at the far edge and just swipe down, and the control panel appears. Control center, lets you turn off or on or control different features of your iPad. You can turn on or off airplane mode, you can AirDrop to people, you can turn your Wi-Fi on or off, and your Bluetooth on or off. If I tap and hold in the middle of the four circles, an additional menu will open up. It tells me that I'm on my Berthiaume Wi-Fi and only people I know will get files from me. Airplane mode is on now. Now, it's off, and Bluetooth is on. This box allows you to play your music. I don't have any music selected right now, but this would be your play button for your music. This button will let you lock your screen. If it's turning around back-and-forth and flipping around and you don't want it to do that, you can lock your screen right there, and it'll stay in the one spot. This button will let me share my screen over Apple TV. I can mirror my screen with whatever Apple TV that I'm wanting so that other people can see it, which is nice if I want to show pictures or movies or documents. I can turn my brightness up or down on my screen. I can turn my volume up and down. All I'm doing is touching and dragging. Focus will let me magically turn my iPad off when I'm driving and sleeping, it allows what focus I'm on. Do not disturb personal or work. Find my focus for the day. This is the ringer that allows you to turn your sound off or on so that if you're working on a project in a reception area and in an appointment other people won't hear the sounds. This is a timer. If I push this button, it will access the timer so that I can start my 15-minute timer going. To get back to the screen, I push my home button and then I have to swipe down from the top right again to access that Control Center. The next one is notes. If I tap on that one, it'll open up a brand new note and I can start typing, [NOISE] and it will automatically save my note. I'll press my home button to return and grab the Control Center again. Then this button opens up my camera, so I can take a picture. We'll talk about the camera in another class. That is the basic Control Center. However, there are more options that you can add to the Control Center so that you can be even more in control of your iPad. Let's go there and add some right now. I'm going to press my home button, and now I need to open up the Settings. The Settings button is this gray icon. About halfway down, it says General. Right under General, it says Control Center. I'm going to tap on my Control Center. I can see that I can access my Control Center within apps, it's turned on. If I'm in a different app, I can still access my Control Center. That's a great idea. Here is Silent Mode, Timer, Notes, and Camera are included controls besides the basics that automatically come on the iPad. If I want to rearrange these, all I have to do is grab and drag the three bars down here. You can barely see them. But if you look closely, there's a stack of three bars. If I want notes first, I can press, and drag just like when you drag the icons and bring that one up to the top. Now when I access the control panel, Notes is in a different location. In order to change locations, you have to come into Settings, Control Center, and then drag those three bars. There are just a few controls that I want us to add to your Control Center. I like to have my alarm in there so that when I'm ready to take a nap or go to bed, I can set my alarm rate for my Control Center. I tap the green plus sign, and it adds the alarm at the very top. Again, I can move that alarm to a different location by dragging the three lines. I'm going to leave it right there, and let's see where it's at. It started a new row for me. I'm going to add an alarm. I want to add a magnifying glass because sometimes I want to use my iPad as a magnifying tool. Then I really like the one that is text size. Let me make my text size bigger. I'm going to add that one just by tapping the plus sign. Hearing. You can increase the hearing on it if you have a device that allows you to do that. If you have AirPods, the hearing will allow you to hear even better. I don't have those available right now, so I'm not going to add that one. These are the ones that I would recommend right now to start with. I'm going to go back to the home screen. Now we'll go up to a Control Center and we'll look at the new ones that we just added. Alarm clock, I just get to tap the alarm and it takes me to the alarm clock and I can set my alarm for the morning. Remember we set that earlier, or I can add another one with the plus sign at the very top so I can have a different alarm. Then if I go back here again, magnifying glass. I have to lift up my iPad so we can access this. Now if I want to really look closely at the cloth I have on the table, I can drag this yellow button across to plus and really get in there closely. I have to hold it super still. I don't know how much. I can go really close, but it's hard to hold it still. The magnifier, that's the control that we just added. The text size. Text size right now the default is at 100 percent and at the home screen or all apps. Let's raise it up as far as it'll go all the way up to 310 percent. Let's look at some comparisons. Here's notes at 100 percent, and 310 percent. Here's a text at 100 percent versus 310 percent. Here's maps at 100 percent and now at 310 percent. Makes quite a difference, doesn't it? The app library provides quick access to all the apps on your iPad. You can find the app library in your dock on the far right. Apps are organized intuitively by your iPad. It groups the apps by the function like entertainment, social, utility, and so on. The more frequently used apps are larger. You can also search for apps. Tap the app library search bar at the top. The screen will change to an alphabetized list of all of your apps. Select an app from the list or type its name in the search bar. The app will appear in the search results, and then you can tap on it to open it. If I pulled out from the very middle of my iPad screen a notification center will appear. It'll give you the time and the date and any notifications that you have. I don't have any right now, so there are no notifications for me to show you. Notifications might be news headlines, new email, text messages, reminders. Here's an example of the notification center from a different iPad. When I'm ready to get rid of it, I just press the Home button. On other iPad models with the horizontal white bar, I'll just swipe up to get rid of the notifications. The iPad has a built-in search so that it will help you find things. I tried it with my glasses, but it didn't work too well. To access the search, I swipe down from the middle. Don't touch any other apps, but just swipe down from the middle of the apps. Then now I can type in search. Let's see if it'll find my glasses. It'll find it in the dictionary. It'll let me search for apps on the App Store and it'll let me search maps, but it won't find my glasses. If I wanted to search for notes, it'll bring up the Notes app. If I want to find a specific note, I can just tap on "This is great", and it'll open it right up. Search is a nice feature to have. I showed you search. Now let's do it together because it's a little bit tricky. To access search, you want to go between the apps. Don't touch any of these apps, but go down between. You could even go from here. Press and drag down, and then you type in what you're looking for. I want to type in camera. It'll find the iPad camera, which I also see right here. It'll also look for it on the Internet. It will find it in photos. It'll go up to iCloud. It'll go into the dictionary. It searches it for it in many different places. Pause and practice searching for various things. You get to search for whatever you want to. See what it comes up with. See you in a minute. The last feature on the iPad screen that we're going to pay attention to is Quick Notes. We can access Quick Notes from the lower right-hand corner of the iPad screen. If I drag up quickly, there's a quick note that will pop up. If you need to write down somebody's telephone number or address or something quickly, I can just tap on it, tap two times, and then I can type in the button that I press to get that quick note, that's first icon there. Now it will give me all of my notes that I have. I only have one, so we'll leave that one. If I pulled from the bottom right-hand corner again, now I can access my same note. The circle with the three dots which is the more circle, and I can share, send my note to somebody, or I can delete it. To share that one, I can share up through AirDrop, messages, mail, or reminders. I can also print it or save it to my file folder. Then if I wanted a brand new note, I can tap the third one, which is a square with a pencil writing. Now it allows me to have a brand new note that I can type. When I'm done with my note, I press Done. To get back to the home screen, I press my Home button or I swipe up with those iPad models that have the horizontal bar. That was Quick Note. Coming up next is personalize your iPad. See you soon. 8. Personalize Your iPad: I am so excited for you. You are becoming more comfortable with your iPad and have elevated your iPad knowledge. You have selected an iPad that works best for you, set up your iPad, and learn to navigate by swiping, tapping, and dragging. You can control your iPad with widgets, the control center, notifications, and the dock, and you increased your comfort level by practicing. That's a lot. Pat yourself on your back. In this lesson, you will personalize your iPad. You will change your name of your iPad, adjust the date and time, and change your wallpaper without paste and water, which makes such a mess. Whenever I train teachers or kindergarteners, the first thing I have them do is change the name of their iPad. Your iPad comes just with a default name of iPad. Well, that's usually not a problem except when there's a large group, like maybe you're in the library or in a classroom, or in a common space and there's other people working on their devices. Some people are wanting to share files and they can't because everyone's iPad is named iPad, so they don't know who to share it with or who they're receiving a file from. It's easiest just to change the name of your iPad from the beginning. Takes us about 30 seconds. Let me show you how to do it. Go to Settings, then go to Generals again it's the one with like cogwheel on it. Then About, then I want to go to Name so you can see right now, mine says Gayle's iPad. I'm going to click on "Name." I'm going to tap on the X to erase. Then I'm going to rename this one. I'm going to tap on Done and now my iPad is named. That's pretty easy. Now it's your turn. I'll walk you through the process so that it's not quite confusing. Remember, you can press pause if you need to. First find the Settings button. Select General. Then select About. Select Name at the top of the screen. Tap on the X to delete the name that's already there. Type in a new name for your iPad. Tap Done. Your iPad has a new name. Congratulations. As long as I'm on this screen, let me call attention to a few other areas that are informational for you. On the screen you see the name of your device, the software version, the model name, the model number, and the serial number which I have hidden. It also tells me how many songs, videos, photos that I have on my device and the capacity. Mine's a 128 gigabyte, and I still have 116.78 gigabytes left so I've plenty of room left. I'm going to go back to General. There's a few areas on this screen that I want to talk about, iPad storage. It's about halfway down. I just wanted to let you know about this setting. iPad storage will let you know how much storage is left on your iPad. It also tells you what is taking up the storage. Right now I'm only using 11 gigabytes, so out of my 128. I see that Books is taking up the most megabytes of space. My apps are not taking up very much space. I think I'm okay with all of these. If I would tap on this, I could see that in the Books my app size is taking up most of the space. From this screen, I could offload the app, which would free up storage, or I could delete the app. If there's an app that I never use, I could just delete it. Now we're going to change your date and time. Let me show you how. A setting that many people need to adjust is date and time. I go to Settings, I go to General, and then Date and Time. Your iPad comes preset with the time zone from Cupertino, Apple's headquarters. I want to change this to my time zone. Now, easiest way is to just set automatically. If I tap on the switch to the right, it will automatically find the time zone that I'm currently in. I like to keep it on that one because that way if I'm traveling to visit my children or grandchildren, I will always have the correct time. You can also choose 24-hour time if that's the way you like to keep time. I want to show the AM and PM in the status bar. If you look up here, it tells me my time. Then it says, AM. If I switch that off, the AM or the PM will disappear. I want to have that one on. Then this switch tells me to show the date in the status bar. Today's date is showing up there. If I shut that off, the date is not showing. It's your turn now. Find the Settings, select General, select Date and Time, select Set Automatically. Select General to return to Settings. Next, we're going to personalize your keyboards. My turn first. All right. We're in Settings and General. Next I want to talk about keyboard. I tap on Keyboard, you see that I have one keyboard, there's Text Replacement and then all of these are turned on. I like to keep them turned on. If I have a problem with something, I can come in and turn it off if it's bugging me. Like if I don't want it to auto correct. This is where I would come in and I would turn that off. This one is important. I want to be able to dictate sometime and have it typed for me. Right here it says you can use dictation for English when you're not connected to the Internet. I'm going to turn on my dictation. Enable Dictation? Yes. We'll talk about it later and use it so that you know what that was all about. But as long as we're here, we're just going to turn that one on. I want to add another keyboard to my iPad. Right now I have English. I'm going to add a new keyboard. My gosh, there are so many choices. I can add any one of these languages. All I have to do is tap on it to add it. I am going to add emoji because I want to be cool like my grandkids. Well I'll show in a minute how that one works. As long as we're in here, let's add one more keyboard. A foreign exchange student that I had was from Denmark and so I'm going to add Danish to it. Then she could type to her family in Danish. I'm done with this page. I'm going to press Keyboards, General, and stop for a minute. Pretty cool, isn't it? Being able to type in another language worked really well. When we had a foreign exchange student, she was able to type emails to her family in their native language. Let me show you how to use those keyboards. I'm going to swipe up quickly to close my settings. Then I'm going to tap on Notes, and it opens up a Notes. If yours is showing a menu bar on the left, there are two arrows that will close that. Here I can see all of my notes and if I tap on the two arrows, it'll close those. I want to type a note, so I tap on the screen and my English keyboard appears. If I want to use one of my other keyboards, there's a globe key in the bottom left-hand corner. I'm going to tap and hold on that key, then it allows me to choose my English, my emoji, or my Danish keyboard. I'm going to choose the emoji next. I can choose any one of these. If I slide and drag slowly across, there are just many of them. Or if I know that I want to go to the musical notes, I can add those or the sports notes. Animals. There's just a lot of emojis that I could use. If I want to just start typing in something and add a cute little picture to it, I sure can. To get back to my English keyboard, I'm going to tap on the ABC in the bottom. If I wanted to search for something, there's a magnifying glass. Then I can type in horse. It will show me my choices for horses. They even show me a camel, I think they're confused. But let's put a racing horse in there. I tap on the X to erase. Then if I go back to my globe, I could switch it. Now, it lets me choose either English or Danish. Let's choose Danish. I don't know, I notice a whole lot that's different, but every once in a while there are keys that look different in here, so I know that I'm in a different language. If I wasn't sure which keyboard I had, then I could go back to my world and I can see that that's in the Dansk and English. Now I'm back into English so I can type in my word. Another keyboard we added was dictation. Let me show you how that works. In Notes, you will find a key with a microphone on it. That's the dictation key. Tap the dictation key and then speak what you want the iPad to write. Dictation works great, period. You are an awesome student, exclamation point. Now it's your turn to add a keyboard to your iPad. I'll guide you through and you can press pause if I'm going too fast. Select Settings. Select General. Select Keyboard. Tap on the arrow to open the keyboard. Tap on the arrow to add a new keyboard. Tap on the emoji to add an emoji keyboard. Now that we have an emoji keyboard entered, let's add a Danish keyboard. Tap to add another keyboard. Scroll through the pop-up list to find the Danish keyboard or what other language you would like to add. The list is long, so you may want to type in the beginning letter into the search bar to find it quicker. When you are done, go back to General. You are amazing. So far in this lesson, you have named your iPad, you've changed the date and the time, you've learned about iPad storage, and you've added a keyboard to your iPad. That's quite an accomplishment. Coming up next, your challenge project. 9. Challenge: Change Your iPad Wallpaper: Now it's time for your challenge. We're going to change the wallpaper on your iPad without getting messy. Just sit back and let me demonstrate for you, and then we'll walk you through it a second time. To change the wallpaper, I go to settings, and then I'm going to scroll down until I see wallpaper. On this screen I see what design I already have on my lock screen and on my home screen. I want to choose a new wallpaper, tap on the arrow to the right side. On this page you can see dynamic and you can see stills. I'm going to choose which one I want, let's see. Dynamic will have movement to it, so it will move. I can drag to see all of the different choices. Oh my gosh, that's a lot of choices. I'm going to choose the mixed colors, and this is what it will look like on my screen when I turn on my iPad, and you see how they're fading in and out. Just here slightly I tap on set and I want it just on my lock screen, or I can set it on my home screen, or I can set both. This one I'm going to have just on my lock screen. I'm going to put to sleep. Now when I wake it up, you see the dynamic screen. I'm going to go back to choose, and this time I'm going to look at the stills. It will show the light or the dark versions, how it changes in the ambient lighting. I'm going to just slowly drag up so I can see what choices I have. I'm going to choose this mountain one. Oh yes, that's pretty. Once I decide that this is the one I want to choose, I choose set, set home screen. I'm going to close my settings just by swiping up, and now I have my new wallpaper. That was easy and not even messy. Let me walk you through that one more time so that you will know how to set your own screen. I'm going to go to settings, and then I'm going to scroll down until I see wallpaper. I'm going to choose a new wallpaper, and I'm going to choose dynamic or stills, and tap on which one that I want. That looks good, and then tap set. Set either my lock screen or my home screen, or I can set both. Let's see what that one looks like. I press my power off, turn it back on. There's my new lock screen, there's my new home screen. What I want you to do now is pause the video and practice. Set your lock screen and your home screen with new wallpapers. Choose whichever screen that you would like for your image. Come on back to me when you're done and we'll change your wallpaper with your own photo. I like to use my own photos for my lock screen or home screen wallpapers. I like to have my name on my iPad on my lock screen, so that no matter who sees it, they'll know that this iPad is mine. Another way of naming my iPad, so moving and scaling, I can take my two fingers and just squeeze in and out, and change the size of it. Perfect. I'm going to set it. I want this one to be my lock screen, and now that one will be my lock screen. You can use any photo that's in your photo library. I really like the photo of my grandson running on the beach, and so I'm going to choose that one. I want to move it down so that this head isn't blocked out by the date. I'm going to take it and I'm going to move it down just a little bit, and then I'm going to set, and set home screen. There's my grandson on my home screen. Let me show you some examples. Let's take a photo for your iPad wallpaper. First, decide what you might have in your surroundings that you would like to use for your lock or home screen, hold your iPad horizontally so that your photo will fit in your iPad screen. From your home screen, select the camera, then select photo. Zoom in on your subject by spreading two fingers apart on the iPad screen, or by sliding the zoom control up. Remember to hold your iPad steady, keep your elbows close to your body, and hold your breath when you snap the shutter. You can take the photo by either pressing the white round shutter button, or by pressing the volume button. I heard the shutter noise, did you? You will find your photo below the round white shutter button in the photo library. Tap on the little picture to open up your photo in the photo library. Next, tap on the square share at the top right of your screen, it's a square with an arrow coming out of the top. The share menu will appear. Scroll down until you find use as wallpaper. The wallpaper menu will appear, allowing you to set your photo as your iPad lock screen or home screen. Be creative and have fun. Stop this video and take a bunch of photos that you could use as your wallpaper. Hey, you just learned how to use the basics of the iPad camera. I'm betting you're feeling pretty creative and empowered right now. Your turn, change the lock screen and the home screen wallpaper. Please share your project in Skillshare. Let me show you how to do that. First, you'll need to take a screenshot. On an iPad with a top button, you'll press the top button and either volume button at the same time, and then quickly release. On an iPad with a home button, you'll press the top button and the home button at the same time, and then quickly release. You'll need the screenshot to upload your project into Skillshare. In Skillshare, scroll down to find the projects and resources, and then press the create project button. A new page will appear, select upload image, then select photo library. In the photo library, select the photo that you want to upload. Select use, and then submit your photo. Now you're going to type a project title and a description, and then press publish. I'm excited to see your project. Coming up next, using accessibility features to make your iPad easier for you. 10. Use Accessibility Features to Help You: Now that you have personalized your iPad, let me show you some of the features on the iPad to make it even easier for you to use. There are accessibility features on your iPad that help people in many ways. Let me show you the accessibility features. I go to Settings and then I'm going down to Accessibility. One of the things I for sure want to do is change the text size to even larger. Let me go back, make sure that you saw that, I tapped on the third one down, Display and Text Size then I want, Larger Text. That's off, I'm just going to turn it on by tapping on it. Right now my text size is right here. I'm going to move it up to about here. Yeah, I can read that much better without my reading [NOISE] glasses on. You can see that automatically gets bigger for me. I like that. You can play around and try out some of these other features. If I want the text bolded or if I want to increase the contrast, whatever makes it helpful. If you don't like it, then you can just tap it and turn it off again. I'm going to tap on Accessibility. With accessibility, I can change the voice of my iPad. Currently, I have Alex, you could also have Samantha. Hi, my name is Samantha. Or I can have Fred or Siri, there's many that I can choose from. Let's try Karen. Hi, my name is Karen. Play around with those and decide. I like to choose Alex, because Alex is the most natural speaking. You can actually hear Alex take a breath between words. Let's listen to him. Hi, my name is Alex. One of the accessibility features is Spoken Content. I can select "Speak Selection", pause this and I'm going to go to my news report, and I'm going to just select one word. How I selected it was just by tapping and holding and now if I had that go and tap again, I get a menu that allows me to tap "Speak" and I can speak in English or in Dansk, or Danish. Let me try English first. Ireland. Let's see if they pronounce it any different in Dansk. Ireland. There you go, a little bit different. Now, if I want to have them read the whole paragraph aloud, I can select it and then I can grab one of these blue dots and drag it to highlight the whole sentence, and then I can click "Speak." "We really didn't intend selling them." Says Kevin Reagan over the phone from the northwest of Ireland. Let's go back and select a different feature that will do something similar here. I'm going to close that one, go back to my Accessibility and my Spoken Content. This time, I don't want it just to Speak Selection, I want it to Speak Screen. I want it to read the whole article to me. Let me select "Speak Screen." The direction says, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to hear the content of the screen. Well, let's just try it right here. If I swipe down with two fingers. Speak selection. Again. A speak button will appear when you select Text Speak Screen. Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen to hear the content of the screen. Speech controller, off, highlight content, off. Press "Stop" with the pause button. What it was doing was reading everything on the screen. I want to try that on my news articles. I'm going to go back to my news and here I've got an airplane article. I want it to read the whole article to me. I'm going to swipe down with my two fingers. Turning old airplanes into home offices. Maureen O'Hare, CNN, updated 9:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, March 15th, 2022. "We really didn't intend selling them," says Kevin Reagan over the phone from the northwest of Ireland. I'm going to stop it. We're not going to read the whole article. But you understand how helpful this is if you're having trouble and you need to have someone read it to you, or could be just playing what to listen to it being read to you. I like doing that also. Let's look at some hearing accessibility features that might help you. You can turn on sound recognition and your iPad will continuously listen for certain sounds. If you click on the "Sounds" below, it will open up and give you a lot of different choices and what you want your iPad to listen for. I like to have it listen for my doorbell or a door knock because I have a hard time hearing things and then it will alert me when I'm using my iPad. If I have sound recognition turned on, then I can't use Siri at the same time. I can choose what sound the iPad should make when it hears the sound that I asked it to. In audio and visual, you can turn on the LED flash for alerts also. Using subtitles and captioning is also available under accessibilities. Turn on closed captions and then select the "Large Text." This can be helpful when you're watching videos. There are many more accessibility features that you may choose to use. Go ahead and play with them. Just remember if you've turned something on and decided that you don't want it to go back and turn it back off again have fun exploring. Your challenge in this lesson is to show someone else either how to personalize their iPad with changing the name of their iPad or the date and time, or how to change the wallpaper, or how to use some of the accessibility features that you've learned. When you're done, come back to me. 11. Next Steps: [MUSIC] You have learned how to choose the right iPad for you, how to set up your iPad, navigate it and control it, and how to personalize it by changing the wallpaper. You have learned how to use the camera to download and print, and about Widgets. Most importantly, you're more confident and comfortable using your iPad. You are amazing. Please leave a review for this course and for me so that others can see what a helpful, awesome course this is. In Skillshare, scroll down until you find reviews and that on the right, press "Leave Review" to leave your review. You are ready for more learning about your iPad. The next course in the iPad for senior series is iPad for seniors, organizing your life with your iPad. In this course, we will learn how to use the built-in iPad apps to create medication, grocery and packing lists. We'll add appointments, birthdays and club meetings to your iPad calendar, and add names and addresses to your contacts, we'll create a journal of daily activities or a journal of memories, and use notes to keep track of medical symptoms. There's a link in my Skillshare bio for Technique Academy. You can sign up for my newsletter to get notified of courses, and to get techniques, tips, and resources. Thank you for taking my class. Hopefully you are more confident in using your iPad. I look forward to seeing you in the next class.