{"id":1019,"date":"2012-01-28T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-01-28T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T23:47:17","slug":"ibooks-ipads-and-itunes-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"iBooks, iPads and iTunes U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently announced changes to a few apps and a new program that will likely play a big role in education, particularly\u00a0if your institution is using iPads.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/education\/ibooks-textbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0iBooks<\/a>\u00a0was upgraded to\u00a0allow the program to support epub 3, books that are rich in media and interactivity. \u00a0Apple also entered into an agreement with textbook publishers to create true media rich texts. The books are\u00a0currently\u00a0priced at about $15 much cheaper then a paper textbook but not reusable or resalable.<\/p>\n<p>Apple introduced the program\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ibooks-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">iBooksAuthor<\/a>\u00a0that allows people to assemble similar books. These books can be freely distributed\u00a0to others. \u00a0But if you plan on selling the books you assembled in iBA they must be sold through the Apple iBooks store. \u00a0As educators we would most\u00a0likely\u00a0create these books for our students and freely distribute them.<\/p>\n<p>Assembling the book in iBA is fairly simple. \u00a0The time and effort is in creating and collecting the text and media elements that would be included in creating such a book. Organization is half the battle. As a scientist at heart I am very much interested in the widget that allows you to insert 3D images. \u00a0These could be used to enhance modeling such as\u00a0organelle\u00a0structure and protein\u00a0structure. I bet there were will be many people learning how to create 3D images for books.<\/p>\n<p>Apple also gave<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/education\/itunes-u\/\" target=\"_blank\"> iTunesU <\/a>an overhaul. \u00a0iTunesU is no longer just a way to\u00a0distribute\u00a0and subscribe to podcasts but is looking more like a course\u00a0management\u00a0system. Schools can set up and manage their own iTunes site and courses. \u00a0Again that will be the easy part, gathering materials and creating courses that will be whole other matter. \u00a0Today educators need to know their content, understand how people learn, and have an ability to\u00a0motivate\u00a0and inspire. \u00a0But they also need to be multimedia creators, producers, designers, programers and authors. \u00a0Not to mention experts in data and\u00a0assessment. Things they are a changin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently announced changes to a few apps and a new program that will likely play a big role in education, particularly\u00a0if your institution is using iPads.\u00a0\u00a0iBooks\u00a0was upgraded to\u00a0allow the program to support epub 3, books that are rich in media and interactivity. \u00a0Apple also entered into an agreement with textbook publishers to create true media rich texts. The books are\u00a0currently\u00a0priced at about $15 much cheaper then a paper textbook but not reusable or resalable. Apple introduced the program\u00a0iBooksAuthor\u00a0that allows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1019\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,35,119,33],"tags":[122,140,143,139,142,231,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}