Why Digital Text?
Digital Text or eText is a electronic version of a written text. Digital Text can be found on the internet or on your computer or on a variety of hand-held electronic devices.
With digital text, changing or customizing the information to meet the needs of students is easy. By nature, digital text is more flexible. It can be searched, rearranged, condensed, annotated or read aloud by a computer. And because digital text is so flexible, it's often a perfect alternative for students with different learning needs.
Today's Handouts
Digital Text PDF handout
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17159250/DigitalText.pdf
Digital Text iBooks handout
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17159250/DigitalText.ibooks
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What about Textbooks?
What's new in Digital Textbooks for the iPad?
A few favorites to explore: E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth Geometry Common Core: Pearson Check Your Settings: General/Accessibility - turn on Speak Selection |
Inkling from Bulent Keles on Vimeo. |
Apps for eText
iBooks - free
The iBooks and ePub reader
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vBookz - $4.99
Read out loud from over 30,00 classic books for free
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MeeGenius - free
free and easy-to-use library of e-books you and your little ones can enjoy.
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i Like Books - $1.99
the "I Like Books" collection which contains all 37 stunning I Like books in one single app.
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Read2Go - $19.99
Browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare .
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More Apps for eText
DropBox - free
bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!
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Neu.Annotate+ PDF - $1.99
Read and annotate PDF documents. Annotate with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps.
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GoodReader - $4.99
Read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Read, text to speech, annotate, search.
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Making iBooks from your iPad
Book Creator - $4.99
create your own iBooks, right on the iPad.Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
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MyStory- $1.99
My Story combines drawing, photos, voice, and text to promote literacy and creativity for you and your child together. They then share their book within the app, via email, or directly to iBooks.
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ScribbleMyStory/ScribblePress
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StoryPatch - $2.99
Story Patch comes with characters that your child can customize. Add images, text and sound.
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Making iBooks From the Computer
Converting MS Word and PDF documents to ePub documents
http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub
iBook Author Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is a new app that allows you to create Multi-Touch textbooks for iPad.
Publishing your iBooks : Click here to read how to publish your iBooks.
Finding Fictional Text
Below are some great resources for finding Digital Fiction
Accessible Books Collection
A wonderful site that houses hundreds of high interest low reading level fiction in .html format. Subscription for a school is $49.95 for the year!
Project Gutenberg
Light literature (such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, or Aesop's Fables), heavy literature (such as Moby Dick or Paradise Lost), and references (such as almanacs, encyclopedias, or dictionaries) in down-loadable formats.
LibriVox
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain in Mp3 format.
Lit2Go
is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player, isten to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen or print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
Accessible Books Collection
A wonderful site that houses hundreds of high interest low reading level fiction in .html format. Subscription for a school is $49.95 for the year!
Project Gutenberg
Light literature (such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, or Aesop's Fables), heavy literature (such as Moby Dick or Paradise Lost), and references (such as almanacs, encyclopedias, or dictionaries) in down-loadable formats.
LibriVox
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain in Mp3 format.
Lit2Go
is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player, isten to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen or print out the stories and poems to make your own book.
Finding Non-Fiction Text
MeL Library
Use the MeL portal to access some favorites: Kids infobits, Info Track Junior/Student.
Internet Public Library
Links to picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables, magazines and info about authors. Lots and lots of great electronic text – don’t miss this one!!! Use an advanced search and GROK IT!
KidsClick
Websearch for kids by librarians. Search topics for eText, sounds and images!
Bookshare
The Bookshare library provides print disabled people in the United States with legal access to over 41,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or digital formats for text to speech audio. Free to All U.S. Students with Qualifying Disabilities
CK12.org
On-line Newspapers and Magazines
Scholastic News
National Geographic Kids Magazine
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Time
People
New York Times
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
Use the MeL portal to access some favorites: Kids infobits, Info Track Junior/Student.
Internet Public Library
Links to picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables, magazines and info about authors. Lots and lots of great electronic text – don’t miss this one!!! Use an advanced search and GROK IT!
KidsClick
Websearch for kids by librarians. Search topics for eText, sounds and images!
Bookshare
The Bookshare library provides print disabled people in the United States with legal access to over 41,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or digital formats for text to speech audio. Free to All U.S. Students with Qualifying Disabilities
CK12.org
On-line Newspapers and Magazines
Scholastic News
National Geographic Kids Magazine
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Time
People
New York Times
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News
For more about Digital Text
Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners: Digital Text
http://www.wested.org/cs/tdl/view/tdl_topic/4
http://www.wested.org/cs/tdl/view/tdl_topic/4