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| - | == iBooks 2 Highlights ==
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| - | * runs on all iOS devices
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| - | * built in dictionary
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| - | * search/web lookup
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| - | * highlighting and saving highlighted material (with any color)
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| - | * underlining feature
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| - | * able to take notes
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| - | * All your notes and highlights automatically appear on study cards. Flip them over and find the definition of a glossary term or the note attached to the highlighted passage.
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| - | * bookmarks the page your on automatically
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| - | * can download a small sample of a book before purchasing
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| - | * also stores PDFs
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| - | * swiping/touching options to make chapter and section navigation easy
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| - | * pinch and slide to return to Table of Contents
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| - | * interactive media, diagrams, 3D images, zoom, etc.
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| - | * Can download updates to textbooks, at no additional charge.
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| - | == iBooks Author Highlights ==
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| - | * free app
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| - | * The application includes templates to quickly create books, but users can also drag and drop images and video into the title. To add text, users can drag and drop a Word file, automatically creating sections and headers.
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| - | * auto formatting
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| - | * no programming experience needed
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| - | * Has a built-in tool, Dashcode, for creating widgets.
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| - | * templates (customizable) OR create one
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| - | * type or drag/drop
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| - | * instant text flow
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| - | * widgets create interactive elements (keynote, 3D, slideshows, can be web-based so always up to date)
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| - | * portrait or landscape views (portrait = more text-based with thumbnails in margin)
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| - | * Can export final content to iBooks store, PDF, text
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| - | * iBooks Author uses VoiceOver technology to make content accessible to those with vision impairments
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| - | == Positives/Negatives ==
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| - | '''Positives'''
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| - | * Goal = dynamic/adaptive learning
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| - | * Very helpful as another tool for differentiated education
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| - | * Creates a very different pricing model for higher education
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| - | * Reinventing the education publishing value-chain
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| - | ** born-digital emphasized
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| - | * Another useful tool to deliver material (one of many outlets)
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| - | * Building an interactive book using widgets would be much quicker than hand-coding it
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| - | '''Negatives'''
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| - | * stand alone – only on apple platform (what about multiple channels?)
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| - | * missing review component (to share/review before publishing, various people working on it at the same time)
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| - | * workflow management
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| - | * web only or desktop view? (not practical for everyone to have iPads)
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| - | ** should have print, desktop, and mobile
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| - | * broad audience and publishing (ePub3?)
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| - | * Publishers who want to use javascript, html, 3D, etc. may still need to find outside help
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| - | * Does not allow for versioning in the app
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| - | * Apple would have control over content distributed through the iBookstore.
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| - | * copyright and permissions problems
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| - | * Need Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later or higher to download iBooks Author in the supported manner
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| - | == Notes From Test-Drive of iBook Author ==
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| - | *Fonts are replaced when importing .docx files
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| - | *Widgets (photo gallery, movie, etc) are intuitive and easy to use
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| - | *Can only import pages and .doc files
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| - | *Imports most Word/SPO styles, but doesn't match full functionality. We should look into this more.
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| - | *Footnote styles are a problem. They don't import because there is not a matching functionality in the .iba format. The Glossary feature in iBooks Author could replace this functionality for a small number of footnotes, but would be extremely cumbersome for a book with many notes.
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| - | *Exports PDF (with easy to apply security settings), .iba (proprietary format), and plain text.
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| - | *Tables from Word or Excel don't import easily to .iba tables, so data heavy texts would require a lot more work. Formatting does not come through.
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| - | *HTML ability deserves more looking into, especially if you can use javascript to do something widgets cannot.
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| - | '''Other Thoughts'''
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| - | *Basically Apple's extended and proprietary version of ePub3 and/or HTML5, so .iba projects would make the best sense if distribution through iBook Store is required.
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| - | *Probably not worth the effort to convert books unless they have lots of interactive content and the audience has access to iPads.
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| - | == Resources ==
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| - | '''iBooks Author Support'''
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| - | * http://www.apple.com/support/ibooksauthor/
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| - | '''iBooks 2 and Textbooks'''
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| - | * http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
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| - | '''Book Publisher FAQ'''
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| - | * http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html
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| - | '''Adding PDFs to iBooks Library'''
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| - | * http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4227#
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| - | '''iBooks 2 Video Overview'''
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| - | * http://cnettv.cnet.com/ibooks-2/9742-1_53-50118588.html
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