Take a quick look at iBooks Author, the new tool from Apple that lets you create textbooks for the iPad. You can design and layout pages like in iWork Pages. You can also add special elements like photo galleries, quizzes, 3D objects and interactive images.
http://macmost.com/ibooks-author-overview.html
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Available free on the Mac App store, iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
The Right Level of Ed-Tech Access?
At least four out of five teachers say they lack access to adequate education technology, according to the results of a new survey by PBS LearningMedia. About 93% of responding educators said they believed interactive whiteboards enhance classroom learning, with 81% saying the same of tablet computers. Education Week/Digital Education blog (1/23),
The grant award must be used to improve or expand the educator’s parent engagement efforts within a family literacy, school, library or community-based organization.
Contact Information
- Grant Organization: National Center For Family Literacy
- Contact URL: http://www.famlit.org/award-gr…
- Eligibility: Educators
- Grant Deadline: Wednesday February 1st, 2012
- Grant Value: $20,000
iBooks Text Books
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
iBooks Text Books Video
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/index.html#video-textbooks
iBooks Author
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
iBooks Author Video
http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/#hero-video
Technology Made Easy, iBooks Author
http://www.tmadeeasy.com/tablet-apps-in-education/tag/ibook-author-tutorials
Overview of the new iTunes U
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
Public Site Management Enrollment K-12
https://eduapp.apple.com/
iTunesU Guidelines and Course Creation
http://images.apple.com/support/itunes-u/docs/iTunesU_Course_Guidelines_011912.pdf
iTunes U App
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id490217893?ls=1&mt=8
By Carly Shuler, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
In 2007, when the iPhone made its debut, there was little doubt that it would revolutionize the mobile phone industry. But at the time, few imagined that it would spawn a multibillion-dollar market for mobile applications, and fewer imagined that this market might become a significant one for children.
Less than five years later, more than a quarter of all parents have downloaded apps for their children to use, according to a Common Sense Media study. Babies have achieved virtual celebrity for mistaking a magazine for a broken iPad, children now learn to “swipe” before they can tie their shoes, and tweens and teens coveted the iPad over any other gift this holiday season.
