In general terms, you create your textbook in an online publishing platform that
exposes content via RSS.
Using a service like Bookbrewer, you convert your textbook into ePub format.
Bookbrewer also has a deal with Barnes and Noble where you can sell your book
via the Barnes and Noble store, or for (IIRC) $200 you get a free, unencumbered
ePub version of your text you can use anywhere, or give to anyone. This could be
very useful in a school setting.
Once your text is in ePub format, you can use it in any reader on any device
that supports ePub format. Stanza has some very nice annotation features.
And, fwiw, we released a platform called VoiceBox that can be used as a content
remixing and publishing engine. It can aggregate feeds via RSS, and then the
content from those feeds can be edited and reorganized into a book, and pushed
out to just about anywhere via RSS.
BookBrewer: http://bookbrewer.com/home
More on ePub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
Stanza: http://www.lexcycle.com/
VoiceBox: http://code.funnymonkey.com/
Cheers,
Bill
----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Taffee <staffee@castilleja.org>
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 1:54:07 PM
Subject: Re: Annotate and Share E Books?
If you use the Kindle, or the Kindle application on another reader such as
the iPad, Amazon aggregates your personal comments on your individual
account on the Amazon web site. You can also set your Kindle preferences to
see the comments of others. However, I don't know of a means to filter
responses to just those within a school. Sounds like a great opportunity for
some software entrepreneur of Kindle or another e-reader has an open API.
I suppose you could try using the same Kindle account for all students, and
asking the students to enter their initials with each annotation they make.
I have no idea if this would work. I believe Kindle limits
an individual title to a total of 5 devices.
s
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You don't *really* need to print this do you?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Deborah Levy <
deborah.levy@chadwickschool.org> wrote:
> Hi--
> I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with any model of e-book
> reader and the ability to both annotate text, and then share that annoted
> text with others?
>
> The idea we're kicking around is that we want to move away from
> traditional textbooks to e-books, but that teachers would still have the
> ability to require their students to annotate the text and then share that
> with either other students or turn it into the teacher to see.
>
> Please let me know what models of readers and/or software that you might
> know of that allows for this.
>
> Thanks!
> -Deborah
>
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