Five+Tools+to+Transform+your+School+and+Impact+Student+Learning+on+a+Low+Budget

**Session 2: Five Tools to Transform your School and Impact Student Learning on a Low Budget** Explore the most innovative tools to help [|enhance academic performance], empower teachers to upgrade their practices, and bring all educational partners to the table to assure a 21stcentury culture for learning --without breaking the bank!

**__Class Description__:** Administrators will explore free tools to create an eBook and review open source content.This is new to most educators, and designing takes more than reformatting and exporting a document in the ePub file format.This eBook can be opened with the iBook app on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. In this session you will learn to create your own digital books and view them on various devices.

**__Objectives__:**


 * To review digital textbooks
 * To identify free tools to create eBooks
 * To understand the difference between the ePub file and other file formats.
 * To explore various types of multimedia that can be included in an eBook.
 * To become more knowledgeable about the capabilities of ePublishing.
 * To create an eBook with iBooks Author app.

__**Agenda **__ Welcome and Introductions Icebreaker Video Survey- 21signs You're a 21st Century Principal Digital Textbooks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">What are e-pubs? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Tools <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Open Source Content <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Aggregate, Curation & Creation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Evaluation

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 * Welcome and Introductions**
 * IceBreaker:**

Click on[| TodaysMeet] to respond.
 * What does a "book" mean to you?**

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 * Digital Textbooks**

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 * History of e-Pubs**
 * **How have digital textbooks evolved?**
 * Digital encyclopedias (Wikipedia) free and for a fee
 * Digital textbooks (replaces paper with digital info, but not interactive and just a digital replication of text
 * Initiatives like Gutenberg Project to make “the classics” available digitally
 * Digital storybooks
 * Interactive ebooks
 * **Two Roads to Take**
 * Purchase Digital Textbooks
 * Build your Own Digital Textbooks

epub is an electronic book format that has become the industry standard, allowing eBooks that use this format to be read on a wide variety of eReaders, from dedicated hardware to desktop software to online based readers.
 * What is ePub?**

**//<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">e-Pub Creation Process (Allow schools to cut cost by working to develop own books) //**

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 * Why Digital Texbooks?**
 * Why bother?**
 * Interactive resources
 * Customizable to meet needs of
 * Varying academic abilities
 * Varying languages (digital books can be translated or made bi-lingual)
 * Cost (itunes ebooks are $15- traditional textbooks are much more)
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Current – You can update an previous created ebook rather than purchase new ones
 * Integrates content (imagine history and literature and music all in the same ebook)
 * Interactive and Engaging
 * Customized to your unique curriculum maps
 * Empower your staff and students to be content specialists

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 * Discuss:**
 * Pros**
 * Cost Effective
 * Up to Date
 * Differentiation
 * Interactive & Engaging
 * Customized to Curriculum Maps
 * Cons**
 * Time Consuming
 * Content Specialists
 * Knowledge of building tools

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 * Video-Free Online Books**

How do we get started?
//**Building a Digital Book**//
 * Todays Activity:**

Your activity will focus on a specific topic or theme. Something that you are familiar with and comfortable researching. We will take you through the 3 step process. The overall goal of this activity is to understand the process of developing cost effective digital books, not to have a completed textbook. You will be given 20 minutes or so for each step. This will be more than enough time to understand that particular step in the process.

**Aggregate, Curate, and Create your own Textbook** **3 Step Process**



<span style="color: #1c1c1c; display: block; font-family: 'droid sans',arial,verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Step 1: **<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">AGGREGATION ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The first step is to gather the sources of information. One of the best ways to aggregate content is through **<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">social bookmarking and RSS readers. **

**<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strategies ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate! <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers can work with colleagues within their subject area departments and beyond the walls of the classroom to aggregate resources through social bookmarking and RSS readers.

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The main sources of information for my professional learning come through my [|Twitter] Personal Learning Network (PLN) and the RSS feeds from Google Reader.

__Example of Delicious:__ @http://delicious.com/iaconowork
 * Lets review the tools:**
 * <span style="color: #00b7f3; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Delicious]
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|Diigo].
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Google Reader

Now its your turn, please begin searching and gathering your content that you would like to include in your book. Please find 3 websites or blogs to add to one of the tools above. We are here to help.

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Step 2: **<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CURATION ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">While aggregation can be seen just as collecting websites and information, the process of curation involves a deeper analysis of the aggregated sites to select the ones that have the most relevant information for a particular topic, just like a museum curator summarizes and edits intricate subjects into easily consumable and enjoyable exhibits.

**<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strategies ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Use your subject area syllabus, state standards or learning objectives to hand pick the content for a particular unit of study. <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Focus on the [|essential questions] to guide your selection of resources. <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">***In order to make your textbook interactive try to include images, videos and [|simulations] to engage your students.**

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Lets review the tools: **
 * Scoop it
 * LiveBinders
 * Zite (iPad)
 * Flipboard(iPad

Now its your turn, please begin reviewing the content that you gathered in step 1. You should now look for multimedia that you would want to include in your book. Please locate 1 video, 3 pictures related to your topic. We are here to help.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|Top 10 Sites for Curating the Web]

__Example of a LIveBinder:__ <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a look at this example: [|Señora Evans – Course Materials and Resources]

__Example of a Scoop.it:__ <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a look at my Scoop.it! [|PhysicsLearn], “Connections to learning resources for physics teachers and students’”.

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Want more? Here is a post with: <span style="color: #00b7f3; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|30+ Cool Content Curation Tools forPersonal and Professional Use] <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And here are some [|Curation Apps] for the iPad.

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Step 3 **<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CREATION ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the most important (and fun) part of the process as you will design and share how the curated resources will be used in your textbook.

**<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lets review the Tools: ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating an online repository using a wiki digital tool such as [|Google Sites], [| PBworks] and [|Wikispaces] will enable you to organize your resources neatly. <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">If you have an Apple platform you can use [|iBooks Author]. The free app offers a drag-and-drop template that can be customized with images, interactive diagrams and videos to create a stunning looking book.

<span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning management systems (LMS) such as [|Moodle], [|Edmodo] and [|Schoology] are also great alternatives with other neat features. **<span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strategies ** <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are some guiding questions for creating your digital textbook:
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Other Tools: **
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How are the learners going to use the information?
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How will they demonstrate their learning?
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are they completing a document, creating an outline or answering a set of questions?
 * <span style="color: #201f1f; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What are the assessments associated with the material?

By Dolores Gendell (Jan. 24th, 2012) [|Making the Shift// The How of 21st Century Teaching.] Now its your turn, please begin adding the content and media to your creation tool that you gathered in steps 1 and 2. We are here to help.


 * Content Resources:**
 * [|http://ck12.org]
 * @http://freetechbooks.com/
 * @http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">http:// www.curriki.org //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">http: // www.khanacademy.org
 * <span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">@http://only2clicks.com/pages/joycevalenza/350887
 * <span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">www.only2clicks.com/pages/joycevalenza/345904
 * <span style="color: #0051a7; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">www.only2clicks.com/pages/joycevalenza/348527
 * http://news.yahoo.com/skorean-students-ditch-paper-digital-books-060604172.htm
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 * [|Find a book-Lexile Frameworks for Reading]
 * **ESU#3 epubs site**: http://esu3epubs.wikispaces.com/
 * HippoCampus- []


 * Creation Resources:**
 * **iBooks Author**
 * **[|Moglue]**
 * **Creating ePubs with Pages**
 * **Creating ePubs with ePub Bud**
 * **Wikispaces** (Samples : Broken World and [|The American Democracy )]


 * Let's try it!**

> > **PUBLISH… PUBLISH… PUBLISH**
 * Determine your books's topic
 * Determine your tool for aggregration
 * Determine your tool for curation
 * Determine your tool for creation

Online Converter - Easily Convert files to a variety of formats including ePub.


 * Resources:**
 * EPub "Publishing Your Own iBooks for the iPad" http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/
 * Free eBooks at Project Gutenberg**:** @http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * CK12 Flex Book site for Creating Your Own Textbook: @http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/
 * ePub Bud--"Make Your Own Book"**:** @http://www.epubbud.com/
 * Adobe Digital Editions - Desktop ePub reader :http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions
 * Minnesota Teachers Write Their own textbooks
 * Creating ePubs; A Model For Multi-District Collaboration
 * The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks
 * How To Convert Scanned Pages Into eReader eBook Format
 * Calibre ““ Mighty eBook Management Software (Multi-OS)
 * How To Download Books From Google Books

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">[|iPod Touch & iPad Resources] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">[|iPad Apps for Administrators]