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"Apple and education have always gone hand in hand, but Cupertino has taken a bold leap with iBooks 2, a full version update offering zero new features for those of us who graduated from school long ago. But for iPad-toting students, the company's new digital textbook initiative is a revelation. iBooks 2 is the same as it ever was, adding only the ability to read interactive, multitouch textbooks on the iPad, purchased via iBookstore on your tablet or through iTunes on the desktop; iPhone and iPod touch users are sadly left out on this fresh feature. But despite Apple's hyperbolic marketing, iBooks 2 arrives with a mere nine textbooks from two of the three top publishers. "

"A Simple Guide for Teachers to Create eBooks on iPad using iBook Author"

" How to save PDF files from Safari directly to iBooks"

have created in class using iBA. I'd like to share them with you for several reasons: 1. To enrich the resources and samples available 2. We're open to your feedback in order to improve the quality of these products The one I'm sharing here with you was part of a Language Arts PBL in which students had to write a sequel to Lois Lowry's novel, the Giver. This was our first attempt to use iBA in the... Losing to Win Read a sample or download Losing to Win by Barbara Hernandez with iBooks.

"Children's Fiction6 · education2 · Jane Ross2 · A Frog in the Marsh · A Memoir · Andrea Santilli & Woodlawn Beach Middle School 7th Grade Advanced Life Science Students 2011_2012 · Brenna Kanski & Don Kanski · Catch a Dragonfly · Challenge Based Learning in Indonesia · Creatures · Dave Brown & Stuart Hunnable · Esther Goes & Emily Anne Goes · Family & Relationships · I Can Swim Now · Jacob's Angle · Jane Ross & John Tambunan · John Tambunan & Jane Ross · Kazia Orkiszewski · Language Arts & Disciplines · Little Fish · Lomba Kapal · Marjorie a. Bocks · Math Our Way · Mr. Lehotay & Mr. Black · Mr. Smith · Mr. Smith's 5th Grade Class · Peter and Amy Go On a Picnic · Peter Goes On Vacation · Plants and More! · poetry · Samantha Harley Goes · Samantha Harley Goes & Emily Anne Goes · Sara Lissa Paulson & PS 347's 1st grade class 202 · Sara Lissa Paulson & PS 347's Kindergarten class K-207 · Social Science · Taruli Tambunan · Taruli Tambunan & John Tambunan · Ten Silly Poems (or Perhaps Nine I'm Actually Not Sure} · There's A Dragon In My Garage · There's a Hippo In My Bathtub · The Two Kids and Desert Town · "

"Create an eBook from online content The world of educational resources and materials is shifting away from print stuff towards digital stuff. One of the reasons for this shift is the ease of creating and sharing digital stuff. ePUBS and tablets and apps like iBooks are merging into a mini-Perfect Storm event that supports and encourages the use of digital content. As social studies teachers, we need to take advantage of these sorts of tools. And I just ran across an incredibly easy to use online tool called Readlists that lets you create an ePUB book from resources that you find on the web. Imagine being able to create a digital book that has a variety of articles, data, and multimedia. Readlists is the latest project of the Arc90 people - the same people who created Readability."

"Introducing an entirely new kind of textbook that's dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created by publishers using a new authoring tool from Apple. A textbook brought to life by iPad."

"The app opens to a series of templates, which include basic, contemporary, modern type, classic, editorial, and craft. I'm assuming that you can also use custom created templates that have been downloaded from external sources as well. When a template is chosen, it switches into edit mode, which reminds me a lot of Keynote. There's a bar on the left that organizes all of your pages, and the window on the right displays the page currently being worked on. I chose to experiment with a picture book that also has some text. "

will explain the process of making a custom book from a series of wikipedia pages. The process produces a pdf, (other choices are available) downloads it you your desktop... and just waits for you to insert it into the iBooks library..... and you can custom create your chapters/topics etc.

Write an eBook! Students (or teachers) can easily become authors of their own eBooks and upload to the iBooks App or the Stanza App on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad

"Book Creation on the iPad "

42 templates, not free