EPub and the Future of the Book

ePub and the Future of the Book

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ePub and the Future of the BookCharlene ChausisAdlai E. Stevenson High Schoolcharlenechausis@mac.com

Today’s agenda•Discuss “the book”

•Learn to create or convert documents into ePub format (for the iPad)

•Continue the conversation!

What does a “book” mean to you?

http://todaysmeet.com/futureofbooks

One man’s vision of the future?

"Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away."

"Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't throw it away."

California lists state-approved digital textbooks

Report marks the first step in Gov. Schwarzenegger's Free Digital Textbook Initiative

Following up on their plan to encourage the use of free, open digital textbooks among the state's schools, California education leaders on Aug. 11 released a list of resources they have determined meet state-approved standards for high school math and science classes.

http://www.clrn.org/fdti/

Florida to go digital by 2015!2/17/2011: State education officials rolled out a five-year proposal this week that calls for all students in K-12 to use only "electronic materials" delivered by Kindles, iPads and other similar technology by 2015."This project reinvents the way students learn and will revolutionize instruction in Florida," says the plan presented to the state Board of Education Tuesday.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/florida-looks-at-taking-school-textbooks-completely-digital-by-2015/1152138

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Predictions/Trends:

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

2011 Horizon Report

“e” formats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

“e” devices:

eBooks:

“Book” vs.

“App”?

eBooks:

“Book” vs.

“App”?

“Do-it-yourself” eBooks:

convert from webpages …

convert for any device …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWuRQ

From Pages to ePub:

From Pages to ePub:

Use the template

Pages 4.0.5 required

ePUB Format

Bill Rankin: Mobile Learning

http://web.fhnw.ch/hgk/media/billrankin/

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