Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Re: leveled books and the iPad and other apps

I agree! Using Pages and an ePub template you can create your own books -- with drag and drop audio and video if you wish. Or, from MS Word "Print", your book to PDF and follow [
http://www.simplehelp.net/2010/06/22/how-to-add-pdf-files-to-read-in-ibooks-on-your-ipad-ipod-touch-or-iphone/ ]instructions for adding PDF files to iTunes.

You might also want to consider downloading ePub formatted books from Project [ http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page ]Gutenberg.

Please see:
[ http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4168 ]Creating ePub books from Pages
[ http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-news/2010/04/using-itunes-to-add-epub-files-to-ibooks.html ]Using iTunes to add ePub files to iTunes

Lisa Pedicini
Technology Integration Specialist/Teacher
The Spence School

A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on December 14, 2010 at 7:17 PM -0500 wrote:
>Why not write your own!
>
>On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jennifer Howland <jenny@kdbs.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>> We are testing out iPads in our lower school. Teachers want to have books
>> available for k-4 students. Do any of the book buying sites have reading
>> levels A-Z on their books? Is anyone using the iPad e-books for reading
>> groups?
>>
>> Who is choosing the books and how is it done? Are there book buying
>> resources that have been especially helpful? I myself love The Pedlar
>> Lady, Pop up Peter Rabbit and Animalia as interactive books but they seem
>> more a one on one reading, viewing experience.
>>
>> Are there any apps that are really working for this age group- not
>> necessarily in language arts, in any subject
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jenny Howland
>> Burke's School
>>
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>Norman Constantine
>Director of Technology Integration
>Wakefield School
>The Plains, VA
>
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