First presented the the Vancouver iOS Summit in February 2015. Publishing digital books today is now really easy. Whether you have 1 iPad or 30 iPads in your classroom, you can guide students to create amazing work. Mobile devices today can be used to weave together audio, video, images, & text in creative ways (App Smashing). This session will show you how to get students away from consuming content to be creators of content and then publishing it as a digital book. Digital creation can engage students at any grade level while enhancing their writing, understanding and critical thinking skills. We will discuss why you should create digital books in your classroom and how to create them with easy apps and techniques. You will see many sample eBooks that students have created to give you ideas and inspiration.

1. Student Created eBooks
Why & How

2. •Jeremy Reid
•I teach in a 1:1 iPad classroom
•Contact me: contact@teachreid.com
•On Twitter: @jReidEdu
•Blog: www.teachreid.com

3. Why?

4. ideas for your first/next eBook

5. Creates positive digital artifacts
Real world purpose
Share
family
community
world
Its the future

8. TRANSFORMATION
Collaborate on a
document with other
students.
Digital Concept Maps
Students interacting
with each other on
blogs

9. TRANSFORMATION
Publishing work for
global audience
Example: Youtube
video, eBook, digital
comic and more.

10. Start small
Inspire students
Expect excellence

11. How?
Proven strategies.

12. Doesn’t matter what
technology access you have
1 or 30
Start small
Be creative
Share

13. + + + +
= &
iBooks Author
Created by:
@jReidEdu
➡️

14. 5 C’s of eBook
Publishing
Created by:
@jReidEdu

15. Have students do their work online
Google Drive to Docs or Blogs
Research & learn

16. Get access to student work
Copies of images
Copies of book pages

17. Teacher put students work together
Student Book Captain or Editor
Edit
Cover & Book Description

18. Upload the completed work using iBook
Author & iTunes Producer
Available in iBooks Store
ePub version

19. App Smashing to Publish an
eBook
+ + + +
= &
iBooks Author
Created by:
@jReidEdu
➡️

20. Do collaborative writing most of the
time.
Creating content with a group
can be messy at times
embrace the chaos

26. Powerful eBook creation on
the iPad

28. Powerful eBook on a Mac
➡️
iBooks Author

31. + + + +
= &
iBooks Author
Created by:
@jReidEdu
➡️

32. Examples
12+ eBooks and counting

33. Link to my iBooks
12+ eBooks and counting

34. Featured
in iBooks
Store

35. Your students can do it!
You can do it!
Start small
First book is always the
hardest
Partner with other educators

36. –Austin Kleon (Show your work)
“How to be exceptional.
The first step is to stop trying”

37. My iBooks
My Blog: www.TeachReid.com
iBooks Author Help
iBooks Author Video Tutorial by @jabellpepper
Book Creator Help
Global Collaborative eBook by @theipodteacher
To keep learning follow: #ibookschat #adechat #ipaded #ipadchat

38. Questions?
Ask me on Twitter @jReidEdu