There’s a growing interest in creating interactive digital books for learning. The challenge is that there are several publication formats and many different vendor applications to use to build an interactive book. Knowing which format and/or tool to use, when to use it, and what’s involved in creating your content. Presented #mLearnCon15 http://www.elearningguild.com/mLearnCon/sessions/session-details.cfm?event=333&q=floro&searchfield=speakers&fromselection=doc.3876&from=sessionslist&session=6650

1. Interactive Book
with iBooks Author
Nick@sealworks.com
Twitter.com/NickFloro
Creating a
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2. www.sealworks.com/ibooksdemo.zip
What are we going to do?
What you
need to know Demo
Play Time
BYOD

4. Formats
• .LIT
• Mobi
• AZW
• PDB
• FB2
• PDFOEB
• RTF
• BBeb
• ePub
• HTML
• RB
• CHM

6. No simple way to go from format to format.

24. Discover Look & Play

25. Zite

26. Zite

27. Pulse

30. The Production Process
Authoring DeliveryPrep Assets Compression

31. 7 Questions to Define the Project
What is the goal?
How will you distribute?
Who is the audience
and how will they use it?
What is the timetable?
Current technology or
solution in place?
What is the budget?
Does the content exist?

32. Development
Tools

33. iBooks Author via App Store

34. Great time to get a Mac.

35. Define
Design
Develop
Deliver
Process

37. Content
Flowchart

38. Inspiration.com

39. How should we
Design?

40. Focus on the
Audience

41. is the key
Content

42. Transparent
Interface
3

43. Design: Keep it Simple

44. Understanding the
Technology

45. SEMANTICS
CSS3
3D, GRAPHICS
& EFFECTS
DEVICE ACCESS
PERFORMANCE &
INTEGRATION
MULTIMEDIA
OFFLINE & STORAGECONNECTIVITY

46. html5rocks.com

48. • network latency
• input mechanism
• memory
• form factor
• computational power
• context
• battery

49. Design for Flexibility

50. experiences
Designing

51. us.wii.com

54. Let’s Play
Download Assets @ goo.gl/WlKhYK

55. Open iBooks Author
• Create a new book
• Add a video
• Add a image
• Widget: Interactive Image (add text)
• Create a Review
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56. ResourcesTo help you grow.

57. sigil-ebook.com/get/

58. iBooksAuthorTemplates.com

59. GraphicNode.com

60. tumult.com

61. goo.gl/i4628

62. http://goo.gl/HQjon

63. http://goo.gl/T1nWm

65. ideapaint.com

66. Nancy Durate Garr Reynolds

68. Thank You
Nick Floro
sealworks interactive studios
nick@sealworks.com
www.sealworks.com
twitter.com/NickFloro
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http://www.slideshare.net/nickfloro