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What is an E-Book!TRANSCRIPT
E-Books
IP Divus, 2013
Heiko Vogl
Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark
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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