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Self-Publishing Across the Curriculum

BYO MAC laptop (& iPad?)

12:30 - 2:15 PM, Room ?

Today’s students can represent their learning in a variety of multimedia experiences. The self-publishing revolution brings all types of media into one interactive experience on your iOS device. Participants will utilize Apple’s Pages to begin construction of an ePub document geared towards a specific curricular need. Learn how you can help students engage in authentic practice and create the media they want to read.

Who are we teaching?

Where are we now?

"In the early days of TV, the first things you saw on TV were radio shows, and only over time did the next format evolve for that medium," says Don Kilburn, chief executive of Pearson Learning Solutions. "I think we're at that stage right now" with textbooks, he says.

-Excerpt from The Object Formerly Known as the Textbook by Young

Why make digital books?

As Daniel Pink stated in succinctly in his TED Talk and in his book, Drive, if even a small amount of cognative input is needed the challenge-reward system will actually decrease output. He suggests autonomy (desire to direct our own lives), mastery (urge to get better at something that matters), & purpose (yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves) (Pink, 2013).

Pixels vs. Paper

What skills do they learn?

Multiple intelligences

Higher order thinking

Digital Literacies (information, media, etc.)

Storyboarding

Collaboration

Problem solving

Project management

Allows for easy differentiation based on:

+Grouping

+Just-in-time or Flexible instruction

+Interest

+Learning styles

+Self-regulating

*Ideas from Diane Darrow's iPadLitCircles

Why ePub?

Electronic Publications or ePub is the closest thing to a cross platform file system currently available. According to Edudemic's 3-24-13 article, ePub can be accessed by any of Apple's iOS devices, Sony Readers, Kobo Readers, & the Nook. File formats can be changed using other programs (CNet Article for example), but chances are you will lose many of the multimedia features.

ePub through a browser?

The best method to read an interactive, digital book with multimedia features through a browser, is using Google Chrome + Readium app for ePub 3.0 documents: Ms. Jane, 1:1 in Practice

Firefox - Get the free EPUBReader plug-in (limited multimedia features)
Adobe Digital Editions - Free software so you can read ePub documents on your laptop (not tested by author)

What's our purpose today?

Now that we know our reason and drive and we need to figure out what to focus on:

Electronic Publications or ePub (made on an iPad via app or MacBook via Pages)
iBooks Author (multi-touch books made on MacBook and published to an iPad)

--Mika WEMTA Workshop Poll--

Examples

-->Meg Wilson's ePub from ICE 2013

Primary: How to Build a Snowman

Intermediate: Recycling PSA

Intermediate: Nobel Prize

*Made w/ Book Creator

*Made w/ iFunFace app

*Made w/ Apple's Pages '09

Book creation on the iPad:

Your Mission: Create!

Our mission, to create an ePub (via eBook Creator) and/or iBook (via iBook Author) utilizing each of the multimedia features available.

Download: WEMTA 2013 Journal: Pages | iBooks | CBB |

READ: WEMTA 2013 ePub Sample

CREATE a WEMTA 2013 Journal using the digital tool of your choice (Apple's Pages, iPad ePub App, or iBooks Author)

*NOTE some of the issues that surface when creating an ePub on Pages and some of the suggestions to correct those.

VIDEO - must be an .m4v file

AUDIO - must be an .mp3 or .m4a

Need to convert files?

INVITE participants to our WEMTA Dropbox folder where I will import it into authoring tool.

Use Open Educational Resource sites to collect pictures, video, music, etc. for digital books.

--John Shoemaker's Legally Reusable Media

--Spartan's LibGuide: Copyright Free/Creative Commons Media

--Tama Leaver's Legally Reusable Media wiki page

--CopyrightFriendly collection of images and sound

--Virtual Hosting's: 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images

Cite your sources (if not public domain) and encourage use of:

--EasyBib

--NoodleTools

--Zotero

Upload & Share

ADD any of your books to our WEMTA Dropbox folder and we can share links with the group.

WebDAV - If you have a WebDAV enabled server, like Microsoft SharePoint, you can use this protocol feature. If you need to know more, ask your IT department.