Pages V.S Word
I must admit that I have never used pages before, but have found a new way to write documents. I thought that I had to be a slave to word, but I have now noticed some great things about Pages and some not so great things. Let me share some similarities between these two programs.
Word and Pages allows you to make some complex text documents and gives you a lot of variations to work with from font to layout. Both Word and Pages allows you spell check, which is really helpful in a pinch because I think most of us know how to spell, but when we type it is easy to press the wrong keys. Both products cannot really support each others systems, when you try and open one document in another format, which they say you can, it is dreadful, and many of the fonts are not even supported. This is no trivial matter but both Pages and Word have similar ways to start a document, there is no confusing way to open a document thankfully between these two programs and both have a decent choice for templates.
One thing that I found interesting was the difference in how each program saves. When you create a file in Pages in is saved by default in the pages folder. Every change you make is changed and saved to the icloud online and you can access that document at anytime through your icloud from any device. Word can do just about all this also but with more work it does not save automatically for you causing a heart attack if you are working on something and the power goes out., but with one major difference. With word you can save into a file which makes organizing a variety of different things you are making easier to find, but with pages you cannot do this causing some hassle if you keep a lot of documents.
Pages and Word both offer the ability to work online collaboratively, . Both these programs allows people to look at the document and make changes, but both have some annoying differences. Word only offers their sharing ability on its premium services, which means that if you want to share your document you will have to pay the monthly fee. Additionally, though word does offer auto save now, you cannot auto save while sharing your file, you have to go back to save it, then re-share it. Pages also has a similar downside in that you can only share your documents with the iCloud version of pages.So you can share a document from your iPad, but the other person has to be using Pages for iCloud on OS X
When you take a look at the ability of the iPad and how it interacts with its users, it is fairly easy to see why pages acts in the manner it does with its auto saving features, working collaterally among other options. It also makes sense that pages would have less options or templates because the idea is that people will be on an iPad and would be looking to throw to together a rough draft or quick idea rather than having 3-4 hours to sit down and make something.
iMapping
As an English teacher, I love the mapping application. It really brings the idea of brain storming and ideas to life when preparing information to use in papers. I like how simple it is to use it and the feeling of being a part of your ideas, a part of your creation a little bit more than just a pencil and paper. Kids respond to colors and graphics a lot more than they previously did because of the way the world has changed, and this helps keep them on track. Another way that I like this app is how you could use it for sentence diagramming. In English, sentence diagramming can be one of the most frustrating and boring things, this will allow students to diagram with creativity and style, keeping this portion of English a little less stale.
Safari and Rover
When Mac first came out and everyone was using it,i was against safari web browser, the only real reason I was against it was because if its unfamiliarity. Once I took the plunge and got an iPhone, I loved the safari browser, would I say its better than chrome? No I wouldn't, but I would say its worse than Google Chrome, I label them even at this point for web browsers.
Rover is a great start to help students and the dangers online activity can bring. We all know someone and or have experienced going to the wrong site with inappropriate content. It is important to help give students a way to explore the vast array of knowledge with minimal risk. Certainly this application does not stop students from just the bad stuff, but also from things that would distract them. It keeps them from gaming sites and others sites that might keep them from the school task at hand. I think Rover is going the right direction with its application and is looking good with asking teachers and other people in the classroom to help get it right.
Box Account
https://app.box.com/files
One thing that I found interesting was the difference in how each program saves. When you create a file in Pages in is saved by default in the pages folder. Every change you make is changed and saved to the icloud online and you can access that document at anytime through your icloud from any device. Word can do just about all this also but with more work it does not save automatically for you causing a heart attack if you are working on something and the power goes out., but with one major difference. With word you can save into a file which makes organizing a variety of different things you are making easier to find, but with pages you cannot do this causing some hassle if you keep a lot of documents.
Pages and Word both offer the ability to work online collaboratively, . Both these programs allows people to look at the document and make changes, but both have some annoying differences. Word only offers their sharing ability on its premium services, which means that if you want to share your document you will have to pay the monthly fee. Additionally, though word does offer auto save now, you cannot auto save while sharing your file, you have to go back to save it, then re-share it. Pages also has a similar downside in that you can only share your documents with the iCloud version of pages.So you can share a document from your iPad, but the other person has to be using Pages for iCloud on OS X
When you take a look at the ability of the iPad and how it interacts with its users, it is fairly easy to see why pages acts in the manner it does with its auto saving features, working collaterally among other options. It also makes sense that pages would have less options or templates because the idea is that people will be on an iPad and would be looking to throw to together a rough draft or quick idea rather than having 3-4 hours to sit down and make something.
iMapping
As an English teacher, I love the mapping application. It really brings the idea of brain storming and ideas to life when preparing information to use in papers. I like how simple it is to use it and the feeling of being a part of your ideas, a part of your creation a little bit more than just a pencil and paper. Kids respond to colors and graphics a lot more than they previously did because of the way the world has changed, and this helps keep them on track. Another way that I like this app is how you could use it for sentence diagramming. In English, sentence diagramming can be one of the most frustrating and boring things, this will allow students to diagram with creativity and style, keeping this portion of English a little less stale.
Safari and Rover
When Mac first came out and everyone was using it,i was against safari web browser, the only real reason I was against it was because if its unfamiliarity. Once I took the plunge and got an iPhone, I loved the safari browser, would I say its better than chrome? No I wouldn't, but I would say its worse than Google Chrome, I label them even at this point for web browsers.
Rover is a great start to help students and the dangers online activity can bring. We all know someone and or have experienced going to the wrong site with inappropriate content. It is important to help give students a way to explore the vast array of knowledge with minimal risk. Certainly this application does not stop students from just the bad stuff, but also from things that would distract them. It keeps them from gaming sites and others sites that might keep them from the school task at hand. I think Rover is going the right direction with its application and is looking good with asking teachers and other people in the classroom to help get it right.
Box Account
https://app.box.com/files
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