iBook Author
IBook Author is an application that enables books to be created online for publishing on iTunes or EPUB. IBook Author has a variety of functions to create professional looking books. Aside from the usual text, links, bookmarks, table of contents and images you can also use video, audio, interactive widgets and web content within your book. IBook Author could be used to create course booklets, question and answer booklets and information booklets which the teacher could provide to students during the school year.
IBook Author has an upgraded version, but is free to get started with. It enables teachers to give students resources that are structured and inexpensive. Students can have easy access to the books that teachers create by accessing them through iTunes, iBooks or EPUB on a range of devices.
The only negatives to iBook Author is that it can be time intensive to work out the mechanics of the pages within as well as how to make the book look aesthetically pleasing. There are limited functions with the free version, so eventually an upgrade might be in order, however it is inexpensive.
Our group have used iBook Author for our lessons in the SEPEP Unit under "Lessons 2-4" tab. The book was able to have a variety of media within it which will help make the lesson overview interesting and engaging to the students that will have to read it.
IBook Author has an upgraded version, but is free to get started with. It enables teachers to give students resources that are structured and inexpensive. Students can have easy access to the books that teachers create by accessing them through iTunes, iBooks or EPUB on a range of devices.
The only negatives to iBook Author is that it can be time intensive to work out the mechanics of the pages within as well as how to make the book look aesthetically pleasing. There are limited functions with the free version, so eventually an upgrade might be in order, however it is inexpensive.
Our group have used iBook Author for our lessons in the SEPEP Unit under "Lessons 2-4" tab. The book was able to have a variety of media within it which will help make the lesson overview interesting and engaging to the students that will have to read it.