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Notes 13 attendees
 * Integrating Digital Books into the Classroom**
 * by Adamsbook (Glenn and Cori Schatner) **

Not here to sell the idea of digital books, they are here to help explain the terrain of e-publication and the variety of ways for accessing digital books

Understanding the Landscape into Digital Books

Three categories of digital books:

1) Downloadable ebooks - text doesn’t have features. the reading application does
 * PDF
 * Epub
 * Kindle and iBook

2) Browser-Based and 3) Publisher Hosted (Pearson SuccessNet, connectEd, Pearson Realize, Supersite, nBoard, McGraw Hill, Holt McDougal Online, Think Central)


 * Metrics
 * Interactive Features
 * Video
 * LMS/Ability to Distribute and Collect Assignments

Application that opens the book is what has the functionality and the interactive features, not the text itself.

Who oversees the eBooks in schools? In many cases, Registrar-esque position handles the book lists. IT handles the implementation.

Broke out into three groups discussing different questions (e.g., digital book formats, elementary level access and usage, iPad successes and limitations, who pays for the ebooks and how are they charged)

Future of eBooks seems to be teachers being able to build their own resources. Purchase literature and have teachers layer on top of it. Teachers create their own ePub and the Adamsbook creates to format. [| CK-12]is an online option for faculty to create their own eBooks.

Are publishers willing to share their content for a fee and allow teachers to build their own books? Doesn't seem so at this point in time.

Many of the schools at the sessions had the same issues with regard to the multiple sign-ons, passwords, device differences, regardless of the distribution company. No solution in sight to relieve these challenges.

Applications: Solar System Explorer 3D, The Human Body by Tinybop, Geoboard

Thanks to all for participating! Scribe: Michelle Sherry (School of the Holy Child, Rye)