Collaborating to create eBooks in the cloud: media rich resources for teaching, learning and assessment

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
www.jisc.ac.uk/rsc April 6, 2013 | slide 1
RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

Summary

 Self publishing
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
 Creative Book Builder
 Have a go
 Authoring tools
 eBook Readers
Collaborating to create eBooks April 6, 2013 | slide 2

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

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

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
Collaborating to create eBooks | slide 5

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Whitby, T. (2010). Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy PREZI. The Educators PLN. Retrieved April| slide 7
22, 2012, from http://edupln.com/video/blooms-digital-taxonomy-prezi

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Pyramid

| slide 8

Some tools

Creative
iBooks
Book Splice iBooks
Author
Builder


Tools for creating eBooks

 iBooks Author – interactive books for the iPad –
free but Mac only


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

 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

Upload to Dropbox


Import from Dropbox


Import ePub files


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


Plan make and insert a video



Create an eBook from Wikipedia -
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27882/create-an-
ebook-or-pdf-from-wikipedia-articles-for-offline-
reading/


Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education
April 6, 2013 | slide 22

JISC Observatory TechWatch Report, Final Report December 2012

Reading ePub files


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/

Anthony Beal
ab@rsc-northwest.ac.uk
@redsontour

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