Just found another great app.....

Voice Notes

With the help of one of my techie friends I have been introduced to the app Voice Dictation for Notes ($1.99).

I am in love with this app, it is so easy and accurate to use.  The initial set up is quick and supports multiple languages. I chose English GB as my choice of languages as I like to have the "our" added to words like "colour, favourite, etc".  It is also possible to add punctuation with voice prompts to your text for example "My name is Kaia (period)." and it adds the punctuation.  I think what I love the most is the "OPEN IN" option.  This app is well worth the $1.99 if you or one of your students is in need of a speech to text app.

This my Valentine's Day gift to all of you....Have a wonderful Friday and Happy Family Day long weekend. :-)

Disabled iPad.....

 You've Forgotten Your Passcode....

What to do next....

For the most part the teachers call me the Assistive Technology Resource Teacher to help them out of this unfortunate circumstance....

This is where I bite my tongue (I am usually using some inappropriate words in my head), as I am now having to spend a time significant amount of time resetting the device.

So here are some steps that might help my schools reset the devices themselves....

1. Connect the USB cable used to sync your device to your computer, but do not connect it to your iPad.
2. Turn your iPad off by holding down the sleep/hold button in the top right corner until the slider appears at the top. 
3. When the iPad is off, hold down the home button and connect the USB cable (which should still be attached to your computer) to the dock connector. The iPad will turn on and display the Apple logo. Keep holding the home button until the iTunes logo/USB cable appears on the screen. You can let it go then. The iPad is now in recovery mode.
4. Now follow the steps to reset and backup the device.

I hope this helps, and if you get stuck let me know I am will be happy to come to help ( if you're outside of Renfrew County you might be on your own) you fix the problem.

Here are the steps right from Apple Support.....

If you can't update or restore your iOS device

You can use recovery mode if you can't update or restore your iOS device.

You might need to use recovery mode if:

• You can't update or restore because iTunes doesn't recognize your device or says it's "in recovery mode". 
• The Apple logo remains onscreen for several minutes with no progress bar.
• The Connect to iTunes screen appears.

See what to do if the progress bar remains onscreen for several minutes

Use recovery mode

Recovery mode erases your device and restores it, which should resolve the issue. If you previously synced with iTunes or iCloud, you may be able to restore from your backup after recovery.

1. Turn off your device. If you can't turn it off, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time and wait a few seconds for it to turn off.
2. Plug the device's USB cable into your computer only.
3. Hold down the device's Home button as you connect the USB cable to it.
4. When you see the Connect to iTunes screen, release the Home button. If you don't see this screen, try steps 1 through 3 one more time.
   
   iTunes should open and display a message such as: "iTunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPad before it can be used with iTunes."
    
5. Use iTunes to restore your device.