iPad in Education For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 9

Creating, Editing, and Annotating Documents

In This Chapter

Determining your writing needs and conditions

Surveying options for taking notes

Working with Pages

Getting Microsoft Office for the iPad

Annotating documents

Writing and sketching within documents

You may tire of hearing me talk about the fact that modern communications have progressed from being primarily text-based to an evolving mixture of multiple digital media formats. If we want school to remain relevant, students need ample opportunities to express themselves in all forms of media. Pushing education into the 21st century doesn’t, however, mean leaving all 20th-century skills behind entirely. You could theoretically sit through a long business meeting sketching everyone around the table and recording audio of all the conversations, but it would probably be a lot simpler to jot down the important points and ...