eBook+-+Examples

Maggie Dixon, Librarian, The Collegiate School Pat Hough, Lower School Technology Coordinator, Columbia Grammer and Prep Mitch Murphy, US History Teacher, St. Luke's School Lisa Pedicini, Technology Integration Specialist/Teacher, The Spence School


 * Collegiate School Library eBooks**
 * Paid database, password protected on Collegiate's Web site. From Follett: Students "sign the book out."
 * Oxford University Press: everything from the last four years in full text. Straight text, PDF-like.
 * Now have begun purchasing scholarly articles on demand from Amazon for student use. Usually $9.95 per purchase.
 * Maggie uses notecard tool in Noodle Tools, which is a citation tool. Spence uses Noodle Tools, also.
 * Can we take ten percent or less and grab one chapter from Oxford and the next from another author/publisher to create our own books? What are the educational copyright laws on this?
 * Project Gutenberg: We can use it all.


 * How to integrate existing good resources into the classroom?**


 * Examples we found:**
 * @http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks "Read an E-Book Week: March 6-13, 2011" Who knew? Also http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/libraries/ebook_libraries.htm
 * @http://beyondtextbooks.org/
 * @http://www.curriki.org
 * http://www.flatworldknowledge. com/
 * @http://www.opentextbook.org/


 * Amazon has free eBook Collections**: @http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_193569822_4?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=0N9WDBTPSMDSZAQ3E5NB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1259181822&pf_rd_i=1286228011


 * Who has already been creating eBooks for education?**
 * []
 * [|Children’s ebook service, A Story Before Bed]


 * Who has already been making ePub Books?**
 * @http://www.epubbooks.com/


 * How shall we make our own eBooks?:**
 * ePub (Pages and what else publishes to the ePub format?)
 * What is ePub format: @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
 * Build Your Own Digital Textbooks: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3755544
 * Certificate course in eLearning for teachers:[]
 * There are a number of ways to create ePub content. Here are 13: @http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/how_to_create_epub
 * How to make an ePub book from Microsoft Word: http://www.jeremyreimer.com/postman/node/395
 * News on the ePub format: @http://www.google.com/search?q=epub+format&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a