Ebook Design Resources

My students have digital textbooks for several of their classes, including my social studies class. These texts are basically pdf files of the book, with a much more confusing navigation. I'm not a big fan of textbooks, and we rarely use them in class.

Listly List - Ebook Design Presentations - E-book presentations, My E-Textbook by Klaus Hedegaard, My ebook should be by A Nowak, My First EBook by Graciela de Bianchetti, ebook design by Kristina Filipovic, and Design by Maria Jose

"Our students must be able to move gracefully and fluently between text and images, between literal and figurative worlds" Lynell Burmark This article is part of my own research into visual literacy and book design. What if we could create visual mnenmonics that could capture feelings, experiences and trigger the imagination in powerful ways?

Made by 3rd graders! Edheads - Simple Machines Activities - Lever - Pulley - Wedge - Screw - Inclined Plane - Wheel and Axle - Gear

Activities? Activities will include...Listening tasks from open sourcesLive chats for student feedback (hangouts?)Collaborative writing (wikis) to give opinions & suggestionsChecking our understanding Quizzes to check comprehensionGames to find solutionsOpportunities for learners to create comprehension tools for othersFormattingMust be...user-friendlyintuitive non-intimidating Reflection & feedbackSpace for reflection and feedback Further learning & sharing opporuntiesLearners will have access to links for further learning opportunities.

Books, chapters, and publications from our moderators and participants

Beast Academy is a set of grade three math textbooks and practice books structured as comic books about monsters. The books are "aligned to the common core state standards for grade three," if that matters to you.

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My brain is tired. That's what you get for spending a day and a half talking about really big issues with really smart people. The Background: Discovery Education, for whom I'm now employed has been involved with digital spaces and for lack of a better word, a textbook, although we call it a techbook.

Okay, so there are definitely more than 10 things to be considered in instructional design, and not all of them are limited to just the digital mode, but for what it's worth here is what I consider to be a short list of some of the more important things you might like to think about...

A sample selection of "English Tree" worksheets I've been experimenting on with beginner level adult learners of English... Have you ever noticed how often "newbie" teachers end up with the "newbie" learners in so many ELT contexts?

Review results from all three phases of the Digital Textbook Initiative are listed separately below. Each link will take you to the full CLRN textbook review. While digital textbooks were reviewed for their alignment with the content standards, California's Social Content Review criteria were only applied during Phase Three.

Nick Sousanis cultivates his creative practice at the intersection of image and text. A doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, he is writing and drawing his dissertation entirely in comic book form. This blog shows you each step of his writing process.

This blog post is the third in a I am dedicating to my coursebook series during the month of June. Boost! is a six-strand, four-level skills and integrated skills series made for learners aged 10-15.

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This blog post is the fourth in a special series I am dedicating to my coursebook series Boost! during the month of June. Boost! is a six-strand, four-level skills and integrated skills series made for learners aged 10-15.

Manuals, publications, and presentations

is a coursebook concept drawing on potentially ambiguous pictures as a starting point for unplugged language teaching . Well, as you might expect from any quality coursebook production, my new series Windows was a long time in the making... a whole morning in fact.

Jason Renshaw's Weblog

For the next week I'll be featuring a series of units for teaching writing skills to t(w)eenage learners of English. I call the approach/materials WriteWays (for lack of a more imaginative title at this point) and they are loosely based on the approach used in my Boost!

By Dolores Gende Apple's iBooks2 and authoring app has created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don't necessarily need Apple's slick devices and software to create their own books. How educators think of content curation in the classroom is enough to change their reliance on print textbooks.

Or am I just reinventing a wheel that is already out there in coursebook design? (Digression: Mmm, yes - I'm dilly-dallying about with coursebook design again, which -- depending on your take -- means I'm continuing to explore the idea that coursebook design can improve and become more inclusive of innovative approaches to learning, or else proving yet again what a hypocrite I can be!)

'Beyond the Digital Textbook' as one of the trends with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks. Apple has now partnered with the major textbook publishers with the newly unveiled iBooks Textbooks.