Apple Distinguished Educators choose Book Creator as their 'One Best Thing' - Book Creator app. Apple recently asked 102 of their ADEs to share their best practices, ideas and projects for a collection of multi-touch books to be published for free on iTunes.
The One Best Thing section in the iBooks Store is a collection of all these books, divided into categories, including ‘Content Creation in the Classroom’ among others. When we had a closer look at some of the ideas that had been shared, we were humbled to see how many people had chosen to say something about Book Creator for iPad. Special thanks to these people below (and if we’ve missed anyone out, do let us know!)
Jane Ross Jane Ross is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Technology Coach teaching in Asia. Her story about how her 5-year-old son became a published author is both touching and inspiring, and has been featured on many other websites, including Edudemic. For Jane’s One Best Thing, she focused on sharing her knowledge of creating and publishing books on an iPad. Carolyn Skibba Karen Bosch Jenny Grabiec Andrew Dickenson. Using Book Creator to support autistic students - Book Creator for iPad app. 67 Flares Twitter 45 Facebook 18 Google+ 2 Pin It Share 2 2 67 Flares × Faced with the challenge of motivating a group of disenchanted kids, this teacher had a brainwave.
Jon Smith is a Technology Integration Specialist for Alliance City Schools. He was a special education teacher for 12 years and continues to have a desire to allow special education students to create wonderful content to enhance their learning. Jon has published several books on iTunes with his students, which can be found at mrsmithtrt.weebly.com/class-ebooks They were going to become great writers if it killed me… I was teaching special education students in grades 5 and 6 in an inner city school in Canton, Ohio. Then, two years ago, Apple introduced a software product called iBooks Author and things would change for me forever. Within three months we had written and published three ebooks… For the first time people were given the opportunity to self-publish in an easy manner. And then we started using Book Creator… New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia.
Posted by Matthew Roth on September 17, 2012 We’re happy to announce that a new EPUB export feature has been enabled on English Wikipedia.
You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks. These can be read on a broad range of devices, like mobile phones, tablets and e-ink based e-book readers. Using an e-book to read Wikipedia articles has a number of advantages. Although mobile online access is becoming more prevalent, it is still not available everywhere. “EPUB files can be used very easily in an offline environment” said Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile at the Wikimedia Foundation. Click the image above to watch an instructional video on the e-book feature To create your personal e-book you have to activate the ‘Create a book’ link located in the left sidebar of Wikipedia in the ‘print/export’ section.
EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Christoph Kepper, brainbot technologies. Creative Book Builder - All about apps in YOUR classroom! Creating assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write Use Creative Book Builder to have students design an eBook to educate others about a core content topic.
Students could develop text, video, and audio to embed in their book. Science students could formulate a hypothesis for an independent experiment, assemble their data, then write about their results. Language Arts students could write their own narrative, create a video to embed that depicts their favorite scene, and design effective illustrations. Evaluating appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate Use Creative Book Builder in a Social Studies classroom by having students argue that a controversial historical figure is either a hero or a villain.
Analyzing. Free ebooks. Bloxp, the blog to ebook exporter. 26 iBooks Author How-to Videos. 8 Powerful Apps To Help You Create Books On The iPad. Want to self-publish a novel?
Get your classroom materials into the hands of others? Share your brilliant insight and call yourself an author? Then publishing on the iPad may be something worth considering. The good news is that it’s never been easier to quickly and easily get your digital pen flowing. The following are powerful apps designed to help you create books on the iPad. So try out some of these apps and it should hopefully inspire you to become a digital author sooner rather than later.