{"id":952,"date":"2011-08-17T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2011-08-18T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:53:35","slug":"where-are-the-media-rich-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Where are the media rich textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pushpoppress.com\/about\/\">Push Pop press<\/a>, which was developing software to easily create and publish interactive media rich books, has abandoned its development and sold the program\/process to facebook so facebook can become a bigger book.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of sad really.\u00a0 Trying to find quality, interactive media rich books already created is pretty slim. The possibilities offered here by PushPop were wonderful.\u00a0\u00a0 I have been looking for such books for the ipads our students use.\u00a0 Most textbooks I find are still primarily text based.\u00a0 All most publishers have done is take a text book and convert it to digital format.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EPUB\"> ePub<\/a> does provide the possibility of adding video, images and links but outside of the <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\">Apple<\/a> sphere, and self-create eBooks there is little out there.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkling.com\/\"> Inkling<\/a> is beginning to create interactive texts but it&#8217;s current limited offering of books is for higher ed.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you find interactive, media rich eBooks for HS?<\/p>\n<p>Update:  <a href=\"http:\/\/holtthink.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Holt<\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schools.com\/visuals\/digital-textbooks.html\">this link<\/a> via plurk on the rise of the digital textbook. which lead to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schools.com\/visuals\/digital-learning-final-chapter-for-textbooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">this graphic<\/a>. I like that text is going mobile but am still hoping to find more then just text on a screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Push Pop press, which was developing software to easily create and publish interactive media rich books, has abandoned its development and sold the program\/process to facebook so facebook can become a bigger book. Kind of sad really.\u00a0 Trying to find quality, interactive media rich books already created is pretty slim. The possibilities offered here by PushPop were wonderful.\u00a0\u00a0 I have been looking for such books for the ipads our students use.\u00a0 Most textbooks I find are still primarily text based.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=952\"> 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":[48,35,27],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}