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I read whatever I can of Stephen Downes' work. He's released a new ebook and has another coming next week. Most of what he shares is yours for the downloading.
Monster list of iBooks tutorials and resources http://t.co/bGIG0fDa #edtech #ebook #edapp #flatclass
Here's my profile on Amazon Kindle - I share a lot of highlights when I'm reading on Kindle. Right now I"m not reading as much because of the end of the school year but you can see the many transformational books that I love. If you use the Kindle app, you should sign in with your amazon account, set up your profile and start following. I'm finding it a great way to find the books that have conversation.
Here's Seth Godin's profile on Amazon Kindle central where many of us are connecting and sharing around the books we read. This is an example of how the book is flattening.
Here is where I follow what people are writing and highlighting on the Flat Classroom book and finding people to follow to talk about the Flat Classroom book. To show up, you need to make your highlights in the kindle public, but you can do that by tweeting or Facebook updating a post from the book and then we can see each other. These notes are a way that books are flattening. I see that Seth Godin is starting to connect in this way around one of his books.
If you want to write or use iBooks or become versed on their functionality, this curated list of iBooks tutorials and resources is a great place to start,
Free open textbooks that are peer reviewed to be of higher calibre. Free online and low-cost in print. If you're looking at options, this is where you should go (if you're curriculum director or administrator.) Start here for free open textbooks.
This is being used by Jonathan Zittrain at Harvard law school as a tool to link with students and content. He shared this as the future of the textbook. Here's information from the notes I took with "SJ" at the Berkman center presentation. This professor gave the best preso I 've seen on the what the textbook should look like of anyone I've seen because he sees that the connection needs to happen behind the text. (I wish I could see Stephen Downes ask him questions.)
" Playlists - described above; each student creates their own playlist and can share them. (Playlists can be books, case studies, videos, notes, etc.)
'Collage' - Wants to take all of the public domain tort cases and let professors annotate and share each others work (people can be "slacktivists" not activists and each person could be a little bit of an activist and share a little bit to this massive case book)
'Rotisserie' - every teacher hands articles out, they rotate through the room. aperson writes their answer and then is critiqued by someone and they themselves critique another.
'Question Tool' - questions asked here are kept nicely related, one person to another."
South Koreans realize that technology doesn't always bring progress. Not going as ebook as planned according to this washington post article.
"But South Korea, among the world’s most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn’t anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more.
Those concerns have caused South Korea to pin back the ambition of the project, which is in a trial stage at about 50 schools. Now, the full rollout won’t be a revolution: Classes will use digital textbooks alongside paper textbooks, not instead of them. First- and second-graders, government officials say, probably won’t use the gadgets at all."
The conversation around etextbooks is heating up with this conversation from edweek. Where there is money, expect controversy.
"The aforementioned U.S. Secretary announced plans to have digital textbooks in every classroom. But it must be questioned whether those digital textbooks actually transform learning for the better, or if they are simply digital re-creations of print textbooks—a mere form of spinal relief.
This website reviews science books and has quite a few people to review this. It will be interesting to see how this evolves as right now it is just very blog like and a bit challenging to drill down into. I find it fascinating that people are realizing that there is a fundamental difference between paper and ebook. If you like science, follow this blog.
A community of writers and scientists are reviewing and discussing scientific ebooks at Download the Universe. eBooks aren't where they are going to be. I'm toying with the idea of producing my own ebook after this next project because I haven't really seen what I think is possible in an ebook but have already storyboarded my own private thoughts in this area. This is a fascinating once in history experience to be part of a major trend as books evolve from paper to ebook. I'm excited! Take a look.
"e-readers have opened up a period of great innovation in how we convey and consume "books," but, as of yet, these new products have not met with the sorts of rigorous and routine reviews that new printed books receive. But a new project, Download the Universe, aims to change that. Led by a set of some of the top science writers in the country -- including Carl Zimmer, Steve Silberman, and Atlantic contributor David Dobbs -- the site aims to provide reviews of new straight-to-ebook science books."
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You can download a KindleGen program from Amazon to generate your own Kindle books from HTML XHTML or ePub formats. You can also use Kindle previewer to see how the Kindle 8 format will work. THE KF8 replaces the mobi format and gives you the capability to add HTML5 and CSS3.
This teacher is using iTunes producer to write books for her students in Indonesian and has run into trouble, however, here is her advice with screenshots and graphics. Some very practical advice to those writing free ibooks for their students.
Integrating text to speech is great but it should be in every e textbook for every student. At least this is a start. ".HMH is proud to be the first to offer text-to-speech functionality with every online social studies student edition for grades 6-12,” to said Melissa Counihan, Vice President, K-12 Literacy and Social Studies Segment Management, HMH"
Apple's move into textbooks. Perhaps bumpy at first but with lots of potential. I have seen a lot of favorable thoughts with the Apple announcement. Here is a note from MSNBC I thought expressed a concern of many. Great article about the announcement that is balanced and not just fanboy worship that we get from many sites. ". Can Apple control quality and manage the educational boards? As soon as the iBooks Author tool was introduced, many Apple watchers who had previously witnessed the garbaging up of the iTunes App Store — with useless or redundant fart or flashlight apps — let out a collective sigh. How long until the shiny new corner of the iBookstore, where the textbooks will reside, is filled with hastily made, low-quality products, or worse yet, works of high quality that nevertheless contain misleading or unsubstantiated information."
Ah, epaper. Digital books. They started as barely a blip but now have become the battleground for the next all out war between tech giants.
"The app update -- which Apple is calling iBooks 2 and is already released to the iOS App Store -- will allow for textbooks to be sold through the popular app, which in the past sold novels, nonfiction and poetry, but not textbooks.
All textbooks sold through the free app, which is available only to Apple's i-devices, will be priced at $14.99 or less -- a stark contrast to the high-priced paper books that fill college bookstores.
But the main allure might not be the price as much as the interactive features iBooks textbooks can offer.
Apple, which announced the iBooks update at a press event in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, said the iBooks textbook exceeds paper texts in terms of engagement, calling it a durable, quickly searchable book that offers easy highlighting and note-taking as well as interactive photo galleries, videos, and 3-D models and diagrams.
American School has named their top education books of 2011. Not sure how it set up this list but there are a few I want to read.
Textbook app, Kno, adds more publishers to the app.
The publishers include a range of diverging specialties, from humanities publisher Hackett to scholarly publishers such as The MIT Press, University of Nebraska Press, and Indiana University Press as well as more general publishers and Norton Publishing, producers of the long-time campus standby Norton Anthologies. Other recent additions include Morton Publishing, Oklahoma Career Tech, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, and AVA Books.
Everyone's favorite PE Geek has a new book about integratng technology into physicla education in ebook format. Jarrod Robinson a/k/a Mr. Robbo the PE Geek is one of my go to people for technology.
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