Sunday, January 29, 2012

eBooks and Helpful Apps

I read a great blog, How to Create Your Own Textbook — With or Without Apple. The best part was the information on apps that were new to me. The blog author identified three steps for creating an eBook:
1) Aggregation where you gather all of the information.  She mentioned Delicious and Diigo.  As I noted in an earlier blog, Diigo includes some fantastic tools for annotating websites that I need to use.
2) Curation where you identify what you want to accomplish and the pertinent resources.
3) Creation where you create a repository for the learning resources.

The author also provided guidelines for targeting readers.  The questions are pertinent to designing any learning content:
  1. How are learners going to use the information in the learning content?
  2. How will they demonstrate what they have learned?  How will the instructor know?
  3. What assessments are pertinent?
The apps that were new to me are:
  • Paper.li to create and publish your own newspaper
  • Twitted Times, another personal newspaper app
  • Scoop.it to create and publish magazines

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