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A very informative site: Digital Storytelling with the iPad

On 08/23/2010, in Apple, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, by Daniel Christian

Digital Storytelling with the iPad — by Apple Distinguished Educators Cindy Huson, Karen Bosch, Sherri Clemens, Jerome Burg, Jim Harmon, Paul Devoto

Digital Storytelling with the iPad

Digital Storytelling can transform your students’ writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers. This site will help guide you in what you need for success in the iPad Digital Storytelling classroom.

Resources

Storytelling Articles:

Web 2.0 Resources

Miscellaneous Resources

  • Apple iPad Connection Kit ($29.00) Gives two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera: using the camera’s USB cable or using the included SD card reader.
  • SoundPaper ($4.99) A great app to repurpose for digital storytelling!! Record the brainstorming process, take notes, and draw. Miss something? Click a word and SoundPaper automatically jumps to that portion of the audio.

General Digital Storytelling Sites


Digital Storytelling and iTunes U

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An iPad book for the deaf

On 08/23/2010, in accessibility / UDL, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, by Daniel Christian

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With its color screen and ability to run multiple applications, Apple’s iPad holds great promise for creating multimedia work that can redefine the nature of a book.

One new attempt to do so is “Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy,” an iPad version of the well-received children’s book that brings to it what the publisher, iStoryTime, says is a first: an iPad book complete with sign language for deaf children.

The $3 app offers three versions of this charmingly illustrated work: one that children can read themselves, one that would be read to them and one signed by a woman who stands off to the side of the screen, with the reduced-size book running next to her.

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Knowledge Now — The Kno tablet

On 08/23/2010, in computer science, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, mobile learning, mobile technologies, tablets, technologies for your home, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Knowlege now -- Kno

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Inkling

On 08/23/2010, in digital learning, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, education technology, innovation, by Daniel Christian

inkling.com

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Cardiology moves online — iPad-based app/journal

On 08/23/2010, in digital textbooks, mobile learning, mobile technologies, nursing, by Daniel Christian

Cardiology moves online -- iPad app
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As I sat down to review The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, which was provided to me as the online version, I wondered, how would this textbook look on my new iPad? Would it be readable? Would it be better than on my desktop? Would it be any better than a “real” textbook? Could this be a new era where information really does get to the bedside?

The short answer is yes—The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine Online is very readable on the iPad, and as such I think it marks another step in the ongoing shift of information online, making it more mobile. But is an online textbook the answer to “point of care” information in medicine? No, but it is a very useful step forward in helping bring evidence-based information and guidelines to clinicians into day to day practice.

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iPad app: Shakespeare in Bits [Romeo & Juliet] — from iear.org

On 08/14/2010, in digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, K-12 related, multimedia, writing, by Daniel Christian

iPad app: Shakespeare in bits -- Romeo and Juliet

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Developer Website: www.shakespeareinbits.com or Mindconnex Learning Limited

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shakespeare-in-bits-romeo/id370803660?mt=8

Reviewer Name: Elisabeth LeBris who blogs at lebrisary.blogspot.com

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eMedia Vitals.com — for taking a pulse check on digital media strategies

On 08/11/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, innovation, journalism, new business models, new media literacies, publishing, trends, by Daniel Christian

eMedia Vitals: For taking a pulse check on digital media

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Can college students learn as well on iPads, e-books?

On 08/10/2010, in Apple, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, emerging technologies, multimedia, by Daniel Christian

Can college students learn as well on iPads, e-books?

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Leveraging digital media across the higher education campus (webinar)

On 08/10/2010, in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, higher education, multimedia, new media literacies, teaching & learning, tools, by Daniel Christian

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Murdoch says iPad is a game changer

On 08/09/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, multimedia, new business models, trends, by Daniel Christian

Murdoch says iPad is a game changer — from PadGadget.com

News Corp announced their 4Q numbers [August 4] and during the earning call News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch, said the iPad was a “game changer” for the media industry.

News Corp has eagerly embraced the iPad and was one of the first media companies to launch a newspaper title for Apple’s new device.  The Wall Street Journal app quickly shot to the top of the apps charts and has been a top download since the launch of the iPad back in April.

News Corp management is very excited by the tablet format with Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey saying the iPad has “transformed people’s expectations and the opportunities around mobile.”  Carey went on to say “it is also a device that for the first time really starts to deliver on the promise of multimedia, where you can see how you could…go between what traditionally would be video content, printed content, advertising that really is attractive that you could penetrate through and engage with.”

Also see:
New online business model will succeed, says Rupert Murdoch

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Podcast: William Rankin on Mobile Learning with the iPhone and iPod

On 07/23/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, higher education, mobile learning, mobile technologies, by Daniel Christian

Podcast: William Rankin on Mobile Learning with the iPhone and iPod — Educause

William Rankin is Associate Professor and Director of Educational Innovation at Abilene Christian University. In this interview from the EDUCAUSE 2009 Conference, Rankin discusses ACU’s mLearning Initiative, which deployed mobile devices to the entire freshman class. This created unique opportunities to pilot applications, overcome challenges, and create partnerships.

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Creating Digital Magazines — Adobe

On 07/20/2010, in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, higher education, interactivity, K-12 related, multimedia, new business models, publishing, by Daniel Christian

Creating Digital Magazines — from Adobe by Dave Dickson on July 19, 2010

Earlier this year when WIRED Magazine launched its digital edition (and sold more issues than the newsstand version without cannibalizing print sales) we noted that it was created with InDesign CS5 along with new publishing technologies. Today, we’ve released a short video that overviews these new technologies, including more detail on how they fit into the digital magazine authoring workflow.

Late this summer, we’ll post these new publishing technologies on Adobe Labs so a broad set of media, corporate and retail catalog publishers will be able to create compelling content experiences. Using this Digital Magazine Solution, these publishers can create immersive content without having to hire additional developers or invest in extensive retraining for staff. Publishers can add interactivity without writing code via InDesign and create monetizable digital magazines for the Apple iPad – with other platforms and devices expected in the future.

InDesign CS5 + Digital Content Bundler

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The “.issue” Format + Digital Content Viewer
This new .issue format is a compressed file format that contains vertical and horizontal magazine layouts, metadata, code to enable interactivity, and associated assets (images, video, etc.) Once the layouts have been packaged into the .issue format, the file is then rendered and displayed to the end-user using a publisher-branded Digital Content Viewer. The WIRED Reader, for example, is the first instance of a publisher-branded viewer. This Digital Content Viewer allows readers to interact with and navigate through the magazine content (including via the innovative “browse” mode). Previously we announced the Digital Content Viewer for Apple iPad; in the future we also expect to develop the Digital Content Viewer on Adobe AIR for desktops and other devices.

Creating digital magazines -- from Adobe

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The first iPad-only novel is coming — with literal bells and whistles

On 07/16/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, engagement / engaging students, interactivity, multimedia, publishing, by Daniel Christian

The first iPad only novel is coming -- with literal bells and whistles

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The idea of rich, interactive, multimedia-based textbooks comes to mind when I see this type of posting….talk about the power of digital storytelling!    🙂

Also…for a bit of humor here:

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Blackboard and Follett Higher Education Group partner to integrate digital texts with online course experience

On 07/15/2010, in digital textbooks, innovation, interactivity, new business models, publishing, social learning / networks, by Daniel Christian

Blackboard and Follett Higher Education Group partner to integrate digital texts with online course experience
Blackboard Learn also to feature CafeScribe for social networking

ORLANDO, Fla., July 14, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —

Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) and Follett Higher Education Group today announced a partnership to give students the ability to purchase and use digital textbooks directly in Blackboard Learn(TM) with a free integration, available today, that brings interactive texts into the course experience.

The integration streamlines the way that instructors assign texts and the ease with which students can access and use them. It also provides access to Follett’s CafeScribe(R), an e-textbook and social networking platform that gives students and instructors the ability to read, highlight, annotate, share notes, and form campus and worldwide study groups among a range of CafeScribe features that make digital texts more interactive.

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Some advice for authors on self-publishing and ebooks

On 07/08/2010, in digital textbooks, e-readers, game-changing environment, new business models, platforms, publishing, writing, by Daniel Christian

Some advice for authors on self-publishing and ebooks — from teleread.com

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New vanity publishing? — from publishingguru.blogspot.com

It’s a pretty good system for everyone involved in the making of a best-seller. Efficiency, ease of promotion, a pre-determined outcome, and everyone gets paid, even though about half of those hardcovers will eventually be composted, too. If you can publish a best-seller, you’d be crazy to publish anything else.

If you are at the bottom end of the mid-list scale, you’d be crazy to give your book license away at current industry standards. Let’s examine the three publisher advantages in light of the modern digital/print-on-demand landscape.

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