iBooks – Beth’s Thoughts on Technology in the Classroom

Making School Created Digital Texts, Part 2: We Have the Technology

March 4, 2012 Beth Knittle Comments 2 comments

Many schools are looking for alternative digital books such a free open source texts like those found on CK-12.org, which are not interactive, or encouraging teachers to create their own interactive texts. The tools available to create interactive texts for the iPad are available; for a Mac there are iWork Pages and the free iBooks Author. The basic skills need for assembly of an interactive digital text are already mastered by most teachers; create text in a word processor, insert…

Making School Created Digital Texts, Part 1: The Lay of the Land

March 4, 2012 Beth Knittle Comments 0 Comment

Many schools and districts are discussing the possibilities of adopting 1:1 devices such as the iPad. They are conducting trials to work out the technical issues and have teachers begin to think about how to integrate them in the classroom. One of the reasons schools give for this move is to be rid of traditional textbooks and move to digital books. However many digital textbooks are just non-interactive PDFs of their print cousins and cost about the same. Apple recently…

iBooks, iPads and iTunes U

January 28, 2012 Beth Knittle Comments 10 comments

Apple recently announced changes to a few apps and a new program that will likely play a big role in education, particularly if your institution is using iPads. iBooks was upgraded to allow the program to support epub 3, books that are rich in media and interactivity. Apple also entered into an agreement with textbook publishers to create true media rich texts. The books are currently priced at about $15 much cheaper then a paper textbook but not reusable or resalable. Apple introduced the program iBooksAuthor that allows…

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