Innovating with iBooks Author and Pages

http://goo.gl/hhnC7 Introduction Steve Dickie - Divine Child High School Blogs: Teaching with Technology and FLOSScience @falconphysics or +Steve Dickie MACUL Board Elections - Please vote... And when you do, consider voting for me. Serge Danielson-Francois - Divine Child High School Danielson-Francois, Serge J. "Information Literacy Collaborations in the Health Sciences at Cy-Fair College." Texas Library Journal 82.2 (2006): 76-78.  Elsewhere: Selected Essays from “20th Century  Fantasy Literature”  @dclibrarymius The Evolution of our talk - What we planned on presenting and what we actually will be presenting on. Why create your own textbooks? Serge's Story Old Model: McGraw-Hill 7th edition $100 from 2004 New Model: BuzzFeed (new economy for news consumption)  Narrative Science (news stories by algorithm)  NewsWhip (what is trending globally) Contently (personal branding journalism)  Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism State of the Media 2013 Steve's Story Modelling Physics - This is a pedagogical approach that is directly at odds with the traditional textbook Pre-Engineering: Electronics with Micro-controllers. There is no high school level textbook for this course. More can be found in our MACUL Journal Article (pg. 26) What is iBooks Author and How Awesome is it Really!!! Anthony DiLaura’s Examples and Resources E.O. Wilson’s Book - Life on Earth Limitations? (Where Pages should fit in). What do we have to show for our efforts? Serge Re-tweeting the News (#dcfia) www.twitter.com  DC Faith in Action www.dcfaithinaction.org  Poynter University www.newsu.org  Digital Storymakers and Atavist www.digitalstorymakers.org  Steve Pre-Engineering: Electronics with Microcontrollers - iTunes U Course, hosted by MI-Learning My Physics iBooks - This is my collection of guides I've been making for my students. They are still very much in development. How Easy Is It? Emerson College has many iBooks Author Tutorials that can show you how to use iBooks Author. They are a bit dry, but they are informative. Also check out my Suggested Resources for some free iBooks and other tutorials. A couple tutorials made by me. Where to now? Serge is looking for some Journalism training: Possibly from the Reynolds HSJ Institute Steve has a lot of work: Many more units to cover and create guides for Need to take data on how students use my booklets. Do they actually engage with the material in a deeper way than they would with a traditional textbook. Summer iBooks Hackathon - More details at 11:30-12:30 in D0-01A or on our website Come collaborate with other Michigan educators to create modules. June 11, 12 - Kent ISD June 18,19 - Wayne State University