e book

E-Books

IP Divus, 2013

Heiko Vogl

Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUQRbqc2qtY

WHAT IS AN E-BOOK?

Activity

Group work (4 students each group, from different countries)

Try to answer the questions: What is an e-book? Try to describe an e-Book? How can you use

an e-book?

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Wikipedia (2011)

An electronic book (also e-book, ebook,

electronic book, digital book) is a book-

length publication in digital form, consisting

of text, images, or both, and produced on,

published through, and readable on

computers or other electronic devices.

Michael Suarez und H. R. Woudhuysen, The Oxford Companion to the

Book: Two-volume set, 1. Aufl. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA,

2010).

[…] an electronic version of a printed book

which can be read on a computer or a

specifically designed handheld device.

„definition of e-book from Oxford Dictionaries Online“, Oxford

Dictionaries, 2011, http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/e-

book?region=at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

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WALTHER NAGLER, MARTIN EBNER, UND NIKOLAI SCERBAKOV, „READING AND LEARNING WITH ANY

DEVICEUNIVERSITY CONTENT

FOR E-BOOKS AND E-READERS“, IN PROCEEDINGS OF WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL

MULTIMEDIA, HYPERMEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS 2011 (CHESAPEAKE), 1775-1782.

E-book – the digital book

E-books created with authoring tools

E-books for e-readers

e-books in schools

WHAT IS A GOOD SCHOOL BOOK?

Activity

Group work (4 students each group, from different countries ):

Every one of you used books at school. As a teacher you will use books too. But what is a good

school book? Try to find criterias for good school books?

Try to cluster your criterias? Use the following category groups:

Content / structure / look and feel (optic and haptic) / usabiltity

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Fixed Layout

Dynamic Layout

E-BOOK FORMATS

PDF / DjVu

ePUB

Mobipocket, AVE, Kindle Format 8

iBook (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr076C_ty_M )

Comparing formats: table of content, alphabetical index,

number of pages, costs

Comparing formats: legibility, layout, images, caption, help,

formulas, quality, format, weight

E-readers

Comparing formats and e-readers: browse, search, navigate,

where am I? two pages, mark, annotations, fill in, bookmarks

Comparing formats: videos, sounds, scale, interactivity

e-books for schools

Creating e-books

Offline

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Online

http://www.epubconverter.org

http://go4convert.com/ToEpub

http://www.docspal.com/

http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-

to-epub http://www.web-

books.com/Publishing/Word2EPUB.htm

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

booki.cc Booktype http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mLCDKmmEyg#

FREE E-BOOKS ONLINE

Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/

Bartleby http://bartleby.com/

OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/

ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Ck12.org http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut7AVwycf6E#

The future of the book http://vimeo.com/15142335

WHAT IS YOUR VISION OF A DIGITAL

SCHOOLBOOK ?

Activity

Group work (4 students each group, from different countries ):

What is your vision of a digital school book? Draw and describe your e-book of the future.

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