This document discusses collaboratively creating eBooks in the cloud for teaching, learning, and assessment. It covers various authoring tools for creating eBooks, including Creative Book Builder, iBooks Author, and tools for importing/exporting to ePub format. It also discusses using eBooks at different levels of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, such as having students create their own eBooks. The presentation provides an overview of resources and tools for collaboratively developing and sharing interactive eBooks in educational settings.
Collaborating to create eBooks in the cloud: media rich resources for teaching, learning and assessment
1. Collaborating to create eBooks in the cloud:
media rich resources for teaching, learning
and assessment
MmIT Conference , The University of Sheffield
Anthony Beal – 5 April 2013
Collaborating to create eBooks
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RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
2. Summary
Self publishing
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Creative Book Builder
Have a go
Authoring tools
eBook Readers
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3. Self publishing
How to self-publish an eBook – excellent
article from cnet
Academic publishing: The essential
checklist for eBook authors – The Guardian
20 things you need to know before you self-
publish – The Guardian
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4. Self publishing
How to create e-books for the iPad -
TecRepublic
techradar.com review of iBooks Author
Zak Mensah - JISC Digital Media - collection
of links to journal articles, conferences, recordings
etc. about digital publishing and eBooks in
education and research
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5. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Bloom 1950s 1990s, Lorin Anderson
and David Krathwohl
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. (n.d.).Educational Origami. Retrieved April 22, 2012, from
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
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9. Some tools
Creative
iBooks
Book Splice iBooks
Author
Builder
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10. Tools for creating eBooks
iBooks Author – interactive books for the iPad –
free but Mac only
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11. Creative Book Builder
Output EPUB or PDF
Generate directly to iBooks
Share: Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP server
Integrated media
– Video (self created and YouTube)
– Audio
– Music
– Creative commons images
Multi choice quizes
QR codes
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12. Using Creative book builder at every level of
Blooms
http://www.appsinclass.com/creative-book-builder.html
• Create – students design eBook
• Evaluate – students present various
points of view
• Apply – assessment by eBook
creation, making use of different
media
• Remember – define academic skills
and generate own eBook
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19. Insert a video in the book
Plan and film a one minute video on any
aspet of information skills (could be: talk to
camera, interview, demonstration etc
Insert it in the ebook
Preview and play the inserted video
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20. Plan make and insert a video
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21. Tools for creating eBooks
Create an eBook from Wikipedia -
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27882/create-an-
ebook-or-pdf-from-wikipedia-articles-for-offline-
reading/
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22. Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education
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Tools for creating eBooks
JISC Observatory TechWatch Report, Final Report December 2012
Collaborating to create eBooks
24. Further reading
Digital Monograph Technical Landscape study
#jiscPUB - http://jiscpub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/final-
report/
Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of
Ebooks in Education, JISC Observatory, 2012
http://observatory.jisc.ac.uk/docs/ebooks-in-
education.pdf
Every Tool You’ll Ever Need To Create and
Launch An E-Book
http://www.bybloggers.net/ebook-creation-tools/
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25. Anthony Beal
ab@rsc-northwest.ac.uk
@redsontour
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