Blairmount Public School

Learning Together

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Emailblairmount-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Technology @ home

Apps for School & Home

Below are a list of educational applications used in the classroom, which we also encourage to be downloaded at home to support learning.

 

Click on each icon to download the app.

 

iMovie

iMovie allows you to create Hollywood-style trailers and persuasive, informative and imaginative movies using videos, images, audio and text.

 

Pages

Create documents in minutes from a blank document or a template, including resumes, posters, reports, digital books and more. Pages allows you to add images, movies, audio, graphs and shapes.

 

Keynote

Create engaging presentations from a variety of themes using images, video, audio and text. Keynote has a range of tools and effects to capture an audience.

 

Clips

Clips is an app for making fun and informative videos to share with an audience. You can create vertical and horizontal videos with immersive camera effects, artistic filters, dynamic music, animated text, emoji, stickers and more.

 

GarageBand

GarageBand turns your device into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio- so you can make music anywhere you go.

 

Classroom

Apple Classroom allows teachers to manage student iPads by guiding them through lessons, seeing their progress and directing them to an app or website.

 

Tayasui Sketches School

Sketches school is a realistic, versatile and user-friendly sketching app to create sketches, paintings and illustrations. 

 

iPad Parent Guides

The iPad Parent Guide series has been created by Apple Distinguished Educators to support parents and caregivers as they navigate learning with the iPad at home.  Below are links to the Apple Books store to download each guide.

 

Volume 1- Short video tutorials about Safari, Notes, Voice Memos, FaceTime, and Messages.  Download here

Volume 2 - Short video tutorials about Keynote, Numbers, and Pages  Download here

Volume 3- Short video tutorials about Personalizing the device, Maps, and Troubleshooting.  Download here 

Volume 4- Short video tutorials about Clips, iMovie, Camera, Photos, and GarageBand.  Download here

Volume 5- Short video tutorials about Time Management and Productivity.​  Download here