This is the transcript of the "Using Templates in Pages (iPad)" video.
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Pages is a powerful platform that enables teachers to quickly create and share worksheets amongst students digitally. It also allows students to create high-end engaging designs with little input. Let's jump in and take a look at how we can use Pages in the classroom. Firstly, open the Pages application on the iPad. If you're not familiar with how to use Pages, please refer to the introductory video earlier in this series. Let's create a new document. We'll take a look at templates and how we can use those in the classroom. Looking across the top titles, you'll see many areas that may already reflect classroom activities. Head to the title Miscellaneous. You'll find example brochure templates. These can be fully customised by students and when printing, you'll have a brochure ready for folding. Flyers and posters is another classroom activity that is often embedded into our teaching and learning plans. There are multiple designs ready for students to customise and add their own media.
Let's now jump into books and select a template that we can customise. Today, I'm going to use the story template to create a simple picture book. You'll see the design opens already formatted. This is totally customizable. Simply tap the writing and change to your own text, like I am doing with this title. Tap your text and edit the format via the paintbrush icon. If you wish to add a further text box, this can be done by heading to the Shapes menu and choosing a text box. Pictures can also be changed. You'll see each of the place holding images has a plus button in the lower right corner. Simply tap this and choose how you would like to replace the image. The newly inserted image will take the same format as the place-holding image.
Double tap the image and you'll be able to resize or crop as desired Pages has some useful tools embedded such as background remover. Simply tap your image and select remove background from the menu. If you do not like the result, simply tap the image again, head to the remove background option, and select reset. In Pages, students can create digital drawings for their document. I'm going to create a new page to do this. Then I will click the media button and select drawing. Students can use the whiteboarding tools to create their images. When done, this will be inserted into the document as an image. Whilst you are in the drawing mode. If students have a compatible digital inking device, such as an Apple Pencil. They can use the Scribble tool to handwrite their text and convert this to typed text.
Of course, students will require some time to publish their storybook, but when they are done, they can send their peers or teacher a digital copy to read by using the AirDrop function under the sharing menu. They can also save it to a cloud storage platform, such as OneDrive or Google Drive. There is further options to export and send as a Word document or a PDF, or you can print the document. The page will also save to the local storage on the iPad. Students could also display their story on the classroom's main learning display if it has compatible streaming software, such as AirServer installed. Simply swipe down from the top right-hand corner of the iPad screen and select the screen mirroring option. Then choose the appropriate device to connect to.
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