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eBooks help build reading confidence, serve as a teaching aid and provide an opportunity for a brighter future for students The future of eBooks opens up opportunities for teachers and students alike. eBooks provide fluent readings and other engaging tools that help early readers achieve academic success.
The Future of eBooks: Preparing for Interactive Content in Education eBooks have certainly come a long way in a relatively short time, it was even thought at one point that they were nothing more than a trend.
You spend a lot of time making sure the content that goes into your Ebooks is unique and of high quality, right? So why wouldn't you do the same with your Ebook design?
These are my slides, shared as a Google Presentation, for Tuesday's EdTechTeacher 2014 Summit session, "Creating Multimedia eBooks." While I've presented much of this content previously in different conference, workshop, and other PD venues, this is a "new remix" of these ideas in a new and longer online presentation.
Were you aware that in some 5,000 schools across the world, students are reading e-books that come with sound effects and background music? They are using Booktrack, an app that combines film-style soundtracks with the texts of popular books. The soundtracks are typically nine hours long, but that changes depending on your reading speed.
After sending out the Admin Training Week eBook, a lot of you expressed interest in how we were able to put something like that together. Google Slides can be an incredibly simple and easy tool for creating eBooks, and this video shows you a couple of tips to get started.
iBooks Author is a powerful tool for creating interactive textbooks for your students. Whether you work together as a class to gather content or simply curate resources to share with a class, the possibilities are endless. If you're looking to check out high quality content that is designed for the iPad, you'll want to download E.O.
Looking for the next great book to sink your teeth into? Look no further. As summer rolls on, you may find yourself with free time to catch up on reading. We have good news for you virtual bookworms - you can get in a good read without spending a dime.
