>> eBook Platforms
Wheelers - An eBook solution where you own the eBooks you buy.
Overdrive - A website that can link to your Softlink LMS and distribute your eBook collection.
Gale - Another way of srganising your eBook collection.
Project Gutenberg Australia - There are many thousands of fictional classics for example available free.
iTunes U - Access to the world's largest digital catalogue of free educational content.
Kindle - An eReader app from Amazon.
Bling Books - 5 websites for free eBooks.
Apps in Education - A list of educational apps that are caregorised into subjects.
iPad Academy - Tips and turotials to learn more about the Apple iPad.
Image: http://orionwell.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/child-wirth-ebook.jpg
Overdrive - A website that can link to your Softlink LMS and distribute your eBook collection.
Gale - Another way of srganising your eBook collection.
Project Gutenberg Australia - There are many thousands of fictional classics for example available free.
iTunes U - Access to the world's largest digital catalogue of free educational content.
Kindle - An eReader app from Amazon.
Bling Books - 5 websites for free eBooks.
Apps in Education - A list of educational apps that are caregorised into subjects.
iPad Academy - Tips and turotials to learn more about the Apple iPad.
Image: http://orionwell.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/child-wirth-ebook.jpg
>> eBook Creation AppsThe development of eBooks and eReaders has made a unique and revolutionary impact upon digital learning. The ability to engage learners is easy with the introduction of new multimedia technology. When both sound and video are used this new multimodal approach is engaging, interactive and reaches more multiple intelligences than ever before.
As this technology is new there is a growing amount of research being done on whether mobile technology makes a differenece to learning. We are part of an emerging literature opportunity. Reading is a basic literacy skill and as we grow and develop so to does our personality, reading style and habits. eBooks are quickly becoming the new way to read materials. Click here for twenty reasons why we should read. Students, teachers and all interested learners can now make an eBook of their own and publish it onto iBooks, or another repository as an ePub file using Creative Book Builder. There are other eBook creation sites such as 3D Issue that supplies the software to make page turning eBooks. |
>> Creative Book Builder
This app enables users to create, edit and publish eBooks in minutes. Users can import from Google docs and make chapters, add images, video and recordings.
"Learning and teaching has become a multimodal, multi-literacy conversation, where participation is an everyday reality for students, teachers, teacher librarians and school administration." Groom, D. & O’Connell, J. (2010). Connect, Communicate, Collaborate:
Learning in a changing world. Camberwell:ACER Chapter 1: Welcome to Web 2.0
new media. p.2.
"Learning and teaching has become a multimodal, multi-literacy conversation, where participation is an everyday reality for students, teachers, teacher librarians and school administration." Groom, D. & O’Connell, J. (2010). Connect, Communicate, Collaborate:
Learning in a changing world. Camberwell:ACER Chapter 1: Welcome to Web 2.0
new media. p.2.
>> Apple iBooks Author Tour
>> Printed Books vs. eBooks
>> iPads for eBooks - Getting Started
This is a fabulous resource that will help educators with the process of introducing iPads into their learning environment. It has been researched and findings have been published stating that learners are enthusiastic and more engaged when they are enjoying the process of discovery.
Click on the picture to learn how to start ...
Click on the picture to learn how to start ...
Have you tried an interactive eBook yet?
This eBook is available at the iTunes app store. Try this out today and it will make you want to make your own!
There are so many eBooks on so many topics covering a variety of genres.
There are so many eBooks on so many topics covering a variety of genres.
Do iPads make better readers and writers?
This picture is a word splash that I created using the web 2.0 tool called tagxido. This work cloud is about an article that has been looking at the reading and writing skills of middle school learners. The argument is about the use of effective forms of technology and how iPads have been instrumental in improving reading and writing.
Engaged = Focused = Interested = Learning
Do iPads reinforce learning?
Engaged = Focused = Interested = Learning
Do iPads reinforce learning?
>> The 21st Century Skills Teachers Should Have
This is an important article about rethinking the skills a 21st century learner and teacher needs. As 'digital natives' is fast becoming a catch cry which is gaining momentum, it is timely to be reminded to focus on interaction and embedded assessment in a mixed age culture using technology - computer mediated interaction.
Activities need to be: AUTHENTIC, REAL WORLD problem solving with emotional CONNECTIONS that personalise learning opportunities through differentiation.
Activities need to be: AUTHENTIC, REAL WORLD problem solving with emotional CONNECTIONS that personalise learning opportunities through differentiation.
>> Links to ACARA English Curriculum
May 2009 http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/Australian_Curriculum_-_English.pdf
5.8.1 Language Strand: Students develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding about grammar and language features and are increasingly able to articulate these understandings. More complex punctuation, clause and sentence structures, and textual purposes and patterns are introduced. This deeper understanding includes more explicit metalanguage as students learn to classify words, sentence structures, and texts. To consolidate both ‘learning to read’ and ‘reading to learn’, students explore the
language features of different types of texts, including visual texts, advertising, digital/online and media texts.
language features of different types of texts, including visual texts, advertising, digital/online and media texts.
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Knowledge1.htm
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/Knowledge1.htm
©2012 About.com. All rights reserved. A part of The New York Times Company.