Make Your Own iPad Apps

I was so excited when I learned from @lloydcrew on Twitter about this app that allows you to mark up pdf’s on your iPad. Basically this free app allows you to mark and draw on the iPad with pdf documents. Therefore, if any of you have ordered some of our visual motor electronic books you can now store them on your iPad and have the children practice visual motor skills using the iPad instead of paper. Here is how you do it:

Step 1: On your iPad download the free pdf-notes app from itunes.

Step 2: Email yourself a copy of a pdf document. Try our free sample page from Visual Motor Workbook.

For large files, ie Visual Motor Workbook, click on the download link you originally received from us. If either of those don’t work try using a free service like sendthisfile.com to email yourself the larger document.

Step 3: Open the pdf document on the iPad. In the upper right hand corner the option will come up to “Open in pdf-notes”. Tap on that option.

Step 4: Wait a few seconds and your document will open. Now you can mark up the pages directly on the iPad. At the top of the page is where you can change the thickness of the mark, erase, change colors, undo, redo and more.

Step 5: Tap at the bottom of the page to email or print the document. Tap on the books to return to your bookshelf of other pdf documents.

Step 6: Try out some of our other pdf documents that you could use on the iPad like What’s Missing? Patterns, Patterns, Patterns or Follow the Path. Here is an example from Follow the Path:

Step 7: Think up other uses – If you have iPad2 you could take a picture of worksheet using app which converts it to pdf and let students complete the worksheet on the iPad. Text can not be written on the pdf’s but it does say it is coming soon!!! Imagine that – you could scan in tests, job applications, etc and someone could create fillable forms right on the iPad. Amazing! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions on how you can turn our ebooks to use on the iPad.

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