International School of Central Switzerland
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ideas, resources, tutorials for creating ebooks and ibooks
Updated on Dec 10, 12
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"Description
Join Damitria the Unicorn, Henrietta the Hippocorn, and Willamina the Shnoopacorn on an exciting trip back in time to visit the original 13 American colonies! This book features an interactive, student-created glossary, copyright-free authentic pictures, 3D images, and an imaginative narrative. The each chapter and section is the result of collaboration from Matthew Farber's 2012-13 2nd period seventh grade social studies class."
iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately, creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it is. Back in June I shared a free 110 page book about using iBooks Author. However, if video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you should look at.
"Create amazing
multi-touch eBooks
Bookry is a complimentary service for iBooks Author that lets you add amazing widgets to your books and interact with readers.
As an author you can benefit from other great features like free templates, widget analytics and push updates. As a reader, you have easy access to all the data you've entered into your multi-touch interactive books."
an iBook that his middle school students had created and published. The book that his students created is titled The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies. It's a piece of collaboratively written historical fiction. The story is about "the Corns" who visit the 13 colonies. Each chapter of the book includes 3D images that readers can rotate.
What it is: Widbook is a new publishing platform for ebooks. What makes this publishing platform so neat is the social aspect, it allows authors to collaborate and make suggestions. Each user also gets their own bookshelf where they can subscribe to other author’s work.
When students start a new ebook, they can choose who can see the book when it is published, choose whether they will accept collaboration for the book, and choose if they want to accept comments for the book. Actually writing the book is fabulously simple. All of the onscreen tools are easy to use and intuitive as to their function. The book can have a table of contents, multiple chapters, and pictures and video embedded right into the book. When students are finished, they simply save the book and publish it. The finished book gets a unique url that can be shared.
Obviously, Flash is out so we are talking about files that are in an MPEG-4 or QuickTime container. But that's not all. We also have to make sure that the CODEC used for the video track is H.264 and the CODEC used for the audio track is AAC. In addition to that, we must take care to keep the data rate, expressed in bits per second, below certain threshold values. Here, for example, are the technical specifications for the iPad. Read the sections on "Audio playback" and "TV and video" to get the general idea. No need to study or memorize these, just get the flavor and we'll move on.
In this episode, Colin Fleming shows how simple it is to embed audio and video content in InDesign CS5.5 for export to EPUB.
a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books.
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
You already have the tools you need to create great books. It is called HTML5. You already have all the eReaders you need. They are called browsers (+ offline browsing). And the combination of the two can be used on any device, anywhere, using any payment system, store or distribution channel.
Podcast380: The Summer of Podfading is OVER: Let’s Talk eBooks!
Resource pages for W Fryer's "Creating Multimedia eBooks" workshop
International School of Central Switzerland
14 items | 2 visits
ideas, resources, tutorials for creating ebooks and ibooks
Updated on Dec 10, 12
Created on Jan 23, 12
Category: Schools & Education
URL: