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31 Jan 12
Holly WeimarAs educators, what do we want from e-textbooks? Here is one person's take on the topic!
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30 Jan 12
Amy SchildwachterTime is of the essence to all of us, and it's difficult to find the time to go through all of the education apps in the iTunes Store that would be useful to us. This is a starter list to some valuable apps for the main subject areas. The author of the site is Australian, so some subject areas are different from ours, but the information is useful.
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29 Jan 12
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28 Jan 12
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27 Jan 12
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Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg"The e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages all our students - it should be a fascinating read, because the concepts in it are demonstrated with interactive images, text and manipulatives. They need to have visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect of the system and then the ability to gradually add components to see how the parts work together in order for the whole to perform. The students should be able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly. The e-Textbook should be filled with engaging non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities."
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visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect of the system
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ability to gradually add components to see how the parts work together in order for the whole to perform
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engaging non-linear interactive media
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freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
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interviews with these same mathematicians, scientists or artists.
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To develop a deep level of understanding students need to decode, decipher, digest, reflect, and then re-package their findings.
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app like experiences
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draw diagrams, charts, tables, drawings and sketches straight into the document as part of annotated notes
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collaborative tools.
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create animations, incorporate video or include annotated graphics
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with an integrated e-Portfolio app or even an RSS feed that produces magazine style publications of a student or class’s work
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constantly updated
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most current information, updated and improved tools and notifications of upcoming exhibitions, lectures, movies or publications that may be relevant
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visual clues of an interactive game.
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awarded badges for the different levels of the book we have completed successfully.
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embedded games or puzzles
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modeling tools to forecast and then see the consequence of predictions
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include tools like maps, charts, graphics and tables with touch screen abilities to alter variants
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integrated geo-search to locate twitter feeds or Facebook posts around specific issues or problems across the world
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include widgets to locate any place name
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realtime access to artists and artist’s studios, sketchbooks, inspirations, the music they listen to, the people they follow or who follows them
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bility to back channel or crowd source solutions or issues, problems, challenges, designs, inventions.
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voice to text answer facilities for those students with greater verbal intelligence, augmented reality and virtual excursions to the ancient world or under the sea
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access their own information in order to take responsibility for their own learning
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create text or video annotations that could be shared with their peers
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graphic organisers and mindmapping tools for creating summaries or study notes
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E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results.
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26 Jan 12
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24 Jan 12
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23 Jan 12
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As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
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need to be visually stunning
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e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
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should be a fascinating read
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visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect
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able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly
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non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
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e-Textbooks that are constantly update
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Can we monitor a students progress?
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E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results. E-Textbooks are only part of the solution. What we need is a situation where student buy-in to their own education. This is where you really see student engagement.
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What I really think is this! I think this is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education
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22 Jan 12
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Kathy InglisInteresting ideas about criteria for e-texbooks (or other electronic resources)
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e-Textbooks need to be visuall
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e-Textbooks need to be visually stunning.
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need to have an inherent interactivity that engages all our students - it should be a fascinating read, because the concepts in it are demonstrated with interactive images, text and manipulatives.
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visuals that can be dismantled
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students should be able to change the variables
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students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
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filled with engaging non-linear interactive media
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include interviews
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facilitate information and research sharing, for collaboration, group projects, resource sharing, videos or how-to-instructions.
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They should be able to draw diagrams, charts, tables, drawings and sketches straight into the document as part of annotated notes.
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constantly updated.
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lectures, movies or publications that may be relevant
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most current information
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Postscript: Are e-textbooks the answer?The short answer is no. E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results.
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Is technology the answer? Again the answer is no. Access to new media and technologiescertainly provide motivation for students. It says to them that we are acknowledging the world in which they live and that that world has merit. It says to them that the tech skills they already have are worthwhile and useful,
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John Evans"The Apple announcement this week about iBooks Author - the new app that will allow anyone to create and distribute multimedia interactive books has been a long time coming. The initial introduction of PDF documents and then ePub documents into iBooks was always a stop gap measure because of the limitations of each of the individual formats. Anyone could produce these documents but they did not really live up to the promise of what we knew was possible. I knew what we could create in Pages but I was unable to reproduce this in an interactive format to distribute to my students on iBooks."
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