Create you own E-book for your Ipad

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano from over at Langwitches and Globally Connected Learning continues to inspire with her How-To-Flyers. She is even kind enough to make them available for download, embedding or printing. It is this generosity of spirit that encapsulates the power of the internet for educators. We thank her for this generosity.

Make sure you visit the Langwitches site for a comprehensive blog on technology in education and elearning. Here is a section of one of her current posts. Enjoy!!!

Recently I had created a “Read-Along” book for our first graders to accompany their Magic Tree House podcast and am continuing  to have fun creating e-books for my iPad from Word Documents, pdfs and thematic blog posts from Langwitches. Next year, we will have an iPad cart to use with our students and I am looking forward to brainstorming more ideas and opportunities to allow students to create and organize their own e-books on the iPad.
  • What are the advantages/disadvantages of creating our own e-books instead of purchased textbooks?
  • What new learning opportunities can creating your e-book bring to your classroom?
  • How can we integrate teacher-created e-books, personalized for students?
  • Will student created e-books motivate, engage and empower learners?
Create your own E-Book for your iPad






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Transfer iPad Movie Assignments to your Laptop: A workflow

I was playing with my iPad yesterday and thought about how to transfer some of the video I had taken recently over to my laptop. On the off chance that you could do this with Dropbox I gave it a go. You know what?  It was easy to do. So I thought I would share the  process with you. It might come in handy if you only have the one laptop in a room full of ipads. Might be quicker than downloading movies from each individual iPad via cable and iphoto.

iPad Video Transfer PDF
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Quizlet - Revision and Study through Games

I love this App. My students love this App. Quizlet is an App that allows you to make fun interactive flash cards. You can set up words, definitions even images to commit to memory. It is a fun and easy way for students to revise work, terms or definitions. I have found that even students in the senior school will happily use this app. They like the fun element it provides to the revision process. We have used it for about two years now, we started when it was still in Beta testing and was a Web 2 tool. I even get the students to construct the questions as part of a revision activity. We then peer assess the options offered and I will upload them and use them the next day as a class competition. Sometimes they write tougher questions than I would. It is about expectations.


My senior students use it to learn and remember the multitude of names and artists of works we are studying in our case studies. It is a great way to inject some fun into a lesson every couple of weeks. We have a series of competitions to get the class champion. I love how they think they are having a fun lesson, and I know that they are learning an essential skill for the exams.




There are three different modes; familiarise, learn and test. The best thing about the testing mode is that the students can time themselves. There are two actual games. The first is a Scatter matching game the other is a Space Race, typing in the answer before the word or images gets to the other side of the screen. The introduction of a gaming element has a very positive effect. The students respond very well to attempting to beat their own best score and time but they also like to better the times of their friends. Very addictive just like any good game, but your students just happen to be learning at the same time.

http://quizlet.com/



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