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It's actually quite easy to turn your iBook into a video. Just use these handy apps and simple walkthrough and you'll be on your way! 
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We hope that you find Checklist useful – we will be adding ‘Submit’ and ‘Share’ options in the coming weeks. Why not let us know how you’re using it – we’d love to hear from you! There are so many possible applications including; revision list, recipe list, shopping list, places to visit list, to-do list, instructions and how-to guides etc.
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A short video showing how one children's author has used the Bookry Word Search widget to push new content to their iBook on the iBookstore and reader's iPad...
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Widget Library
Welcome to our growing library of downloadable interactive widgets for iBooks Author. Feel free to use as many as you like, as Bookry widgets are free for you to use even in your commercial projects! Simply generate your widget file online and then drag and drop directly into iBooks Author, in both landscape and portrait mode.
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There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive. Here is a list of some of the resources online. If you know of other good ones please add them in the comments section and we will update the list.
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The ebook is very creative and well written (it’s for kids, but the fun facts are interesting for all nature geeks). Sure it’s from a 7th Grade class, and it isn’t like E.O. Wilson’s free book, but I think the kids and their teacher tapped into all the best features of iBooks author. They’ve included: Interesting layouts and nicely readable text with great info.Photo galleries of the plants and animals.Movies (made with iMovie, of course) … like feeding an alligator!
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Add more options to your book making arsenal with Book Palette.
------------------------------------------------- One example of iBook Author templates that Kim talked about in his session today if you want more than the standard templates. If you Google for 'iBook Author templates' you will find many others that are available.
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Late last week, Apple announced the launch of a new piece of software, iBooks Author, and a new version of its eBook reader, iBooks 2.
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Aptara's eBook production and App development services help meet your audience's needs for mobile content and your need for high-quality, scalable and cost-effective delivery.
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Here a great how-to video which explains using iBooks Author to make and and sell a multi-touch iBook for iPad.
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iBooks Author is the first tool of its kind. Never before have publishers, authors, and content creators had a tool for making dynamic, interactive ebooks in a WYSIWYG environment. This book is intended to get you up and writing in iBooks Author.
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The concept of ‘social reading’ was not so clear to me when it was first discussed a few years back. I did understand what Jeremy LeBard (what an excellent surname he has) was getting at with ReadCloud, especially in a school context but wondered if it would catch on or not. Now, that I am reading books almost exclusively via my iPad, social reading is becoming more clearly a concept that will develop as more people start to engage with ebooks. Via Nik Peachey
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Vineet Madan, McGraw Hill Education vice president of new ventures, believes the new iPad in concert with Apple’s textbook initiative will indirectly change the way students learn. It’s not the new iPad’s host of features that has Madan excited; however, instead he believes the iPad 2 $100 price drop allow more schools to purchase iPads for their students. Via Andrea Zeitz
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Present live streaming video to your readers, right from within the iBook! With this widget you can place an embedded version of any Ustream video into your book. As the video is streamed live, it will not take up a lot of space in the book and you can optionally specify a holding image and only show the video at specific times e.g. at a conference, lecture or seminar. You can also make changes to what is shown in the widget and push this out to the book, even after publishing.
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The RSS widget can be customized to suit any iBook style and options include background graphic, header, font colors and styles. You can also change the widget’s RSS feed at anytime to push new content out to your iBook, even after publishing.
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A group of teachers have started to disrupt their own textbook options by starting up an iBooks Author Hackathon. And it's incredible. Via John Evans
Christopher Bounds's curator insight,
March 29, 2013 4:33 PM
ThisIt'Isis one of those articles that should be part of the teachers' Bible.
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iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately, creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it is. Back in June I shared a free 110 page book about using iBooks Author. However, if video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you should look at.
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There still hasn’t been a public announcement (nor has the app been updated), but yesterday Apple made it official. iBooks now supports the advanced formatting options, interactive features, and embedded content found in the new Epub3 book format.
This makes the app the first commercial commercial app to support the new format – only it doesn’t, quite.
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To make a picture zoom fullscreen in iBooks Author v1.1 isn't as easy as it could be - there are at least three ways to do it, each one with its own drawbacks: because fullscreen and borderless aren’t synonyms. Via ClassroomAid
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When Apple unveiled iBooks2 with support for advanced textbooks on the iPad, they also released iBooks Author to make the creation of such advanced textbooks easier. One of the features of iBooks Author is the ability to embed interactive HTML5 & JavaScript widgets created with Dashcode. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of details on exactly how to do that.
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There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive. Here is a list of some of the resources online.
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Have you ever considered producing an ebook for your blog readers? In this comprehensive post Ali Hale breaks down the ...
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Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers, agents and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.
For readers, Smashwords provides an opportunity to discover new voices in all categories and genres of the written word. Once you register, the site offers useful tools for search, discovery and personal library-building. Each week we add new features based on feedback from members.
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iBooks Author comes with 6 inbuilt widgets to add great interactive elements to your iBooks.
With Class Widgets, you can easily add more.
No need to program or install Dashcode, just click on the Wizard and download your auto-generated widget.
See the list below for our latest iBooks Author Widgets - we will be adding more over the coming days.
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Since January we have facilitated a handful of iBooks Author workshops with educators at regional technology events all over California, as well as the Computer Using Educators (CUE) conference in Palm Springs. These workshops have included teachers and administrators engaged in discussions about how to leverage Apple's new software in education. Based upon these experiences, we have identified seven reasons why you should consider adding iBooks Author to your knowledge base. Via Nik Peachey
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A handy process for those who don't have access to iBooks; instead create a screencast showing the ibook.