Slides to accompany a workshop for the group at Bolton Sixth Form College, 19 June 2013

1. Collaborating to create eBooks June 21, 2013 | slide 1RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
Collaborating to create eBooks in the cloud:
media rich resources for teaching, learning
and assessment
Northwest Sixth Form Librarians Group
Anthony Beal – 19 June 2013
www.jisc.ac.uk/rsc

2. Summary
 Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
 Creative Book Builder
 Have a go
 Authoring tools
 eBook Readers
 Self publishing
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3. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. (n.d.).Educational Origami. Retrieved April 22, 2012, from
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy
Bloom 1950s 1990s, Lorin Anderson
and David Krathwohl

4. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Collaborating to create eBooks | slide 4Whitby, T. (2010). Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy PREZI. The Educators PLN. Retrieved April
22, 2012, from http://edupln.com/video/blooms-digital-taxonomy-prezi
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

5. Collaborating to create eBooks
| slide 5
Bloom's Digital
Taxonomy
The Padagogy Wheel by Allan
Carrington is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Unported License. Based on a work at
http://tinyurl.com/bloomsblog .
The Padagogy
Wheel Poster -
http://www.unity.net.
au/padwheel/padwh
eelposter.pdf

6. Some tools
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Creative
Book
Builder
Splice iBooks
iBooks
Author

7. Tools for creating eBooks
 iBooks Author – interactive books for the iPad –
free but Mac only
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8. 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
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9.  Using Creative book builder at every level of
Blooms
http://www.appsinclass.com/creative-book-builder.html
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• 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

10. Upload to Dropbox
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11. Upload to Dropbox
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12. Upload to Dropbox
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13. Import from Dropbox
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14. Insert a video in the book
 Plan and film a one minute instructional
video. (could be: talk to
camera, interview, demonstration etc
 Insert it in the ebook
 Preview and play the inserted video
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15. Plan make and insert a video
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16. Tools for creating eBooks
Create an eBook from Wikipedia -
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27882/create-an-
ebook-or-pdf-from-wikipedia-articles-for-offline-
reading/
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17. Tools for creating eBooks
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PreparingforEffectiveAdoptionandUseofEbooksinEducation
JISCObservatoryTechWatchReport,FinalReportDecember2012

18. Reading ePub files
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19. Self publishing
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 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

20. Self publishing
Collaborating to create eBooks June 21, 2013 | slide 20
 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

21. 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/
 The Padagogy Wheel … it’s a Bloomin’ Better Way to
Teach
http://www.unity.net.au/allansportfolio/edublog/?p=324
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22. Anthony Beal
ab@rsc-northwest.ac.uk
@redsontour
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