The Built-in Camera and Photos Apps

The first built-in apps we focused on were the Camera app and the Photos app. My reasons for this are because I knew it would be a motivating activity for the participants, it could easily become a social activity,  it provided an opportunity for them to get up and move around while navigating their iPads, it immediately gives them a new leisure skill (taking pictures of friends and their environment), and because understanding these apps is fundamental to using a variety of other apps that we will be using in the near future (i.e. Pic Collage and Action Movies). During the practice time, I wanted them to demonstrate how to take a picture of something or someone in front of them, take a picture of themselves (using feature that flips the camera), and go into the Photos App and review the photos they took.  As part of this lesson, I introduced this blog to them and talked about how I would like them to take photos that could be posted on our public blog.