iPads to create e-books

[Jeannie Hixon]

Has anyone used the iPad in the classroom to create an  e-book?  We are looking for presentation tools to use in the high school classrooms and would like to create an e-book without buying a commercial product.

[Mara Barrett]

We have faculty members who have created e-books via their wiki pages. The students, in turn, download the e-books to their ipads for use in the classroom.  The students keep the material in their ipad library for use during the course of the semester/year.

[Jeannie Hixon]

Mara,

Do you know which production tools the teachers used on the wiki to create the e-books?  Was it done in Power Point?

Jeannie

[Mara Barrett]

Hi Jeannie,

I guess I was a little vague with my response... hope the following is helpful.

Working from their MacBook Pros, the teachers used Pages to begin creating the e-books for their classrooms.  Once they created their final document in Pages they exported it to an ePub file format.  (File>Export>ePub) After loading the ePub file to their wiki page the students downloaded the document into their "iBooks library."  ( I know they are using Keynote to create downloadable movies for their students as well. )

 

--Mara

[Alex Ragone]

Jeannie, 

 

I held a meeting at Collegiate last year where we discussed digital texts.... 

 

Here's a link to our notes:

http://neit.wikispaces.com/eTexts-Agenda+and+Plan

 

I also recommend reaching out to Jim Foley: St. Luke's School and Bill Campbell at Dwight-Englewood School.

 

Best,  Alex

 

 

[Candace Townsley]

Demibook Composer

This is a brand new app and it's free.  It is supposed to be for composing ebooks.

I've downloaded it, but have not looked at it just yet!

Best wishes,

Candace

[Jeannie Hixon]

Thank you, Candace.  I've just downloaded it and plan to try it out soon.  It is taking a really long time to download.

And thank you to Mara and Alex for their replies too.

Jeannie