How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple. By Dolores Gende Apple’s iBooks2 and authoring app has created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don’t necessarily need Apple’s slick devices and software to create their own books. How educators think of content curation in the classroom is enough to change their reliance on print textbooks. As the open education movement continues to grow and become an even more rich trove of resources, teachers can use the content to make their own interactive textbooks. It might seem daunting, but the availability of quality materials online and the power of tapping into personal learning networks should make it easier.
Here’s how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps. 1. Teachers can work with colleagues within their subject area departments and beyond the walls of the classroom to aggregate resources through social bookmarking. 2. One of the most user-friendly tools to post resources for your course is LiveBinders.
The 3 i's of internet safety. INFORMED, IN VIEW & INTERESTEDAt school access to the internet is monitored, there are often black lists of inappropriate sites, filtering systems and supervision by teachers and staff. But when the students get home this changes. The parents do not have access to the extensive resources and tools avaliable to schools. So to help the parents we recommend that a simple three step rule, the 3 i's of internet safety. Be Informed,In view andInterested. We often run sessions for parents and caregivers to cover these points. Be informed about the risks and benefits of Internet access. Understand about chatrooms, instant messaging, forums, personal spaces like Bebo and Myspace. Where possible have your son’s or daughter’s computer in view. Java: Java Applets. Why Google Apps for Education? ICT Planning.