The big drawback of the traditional "paper" books, according to Apple, are high cost, short life, a lot of weight, and the lack of interactive elements. Digital book, which the company proposes to replace, devoid of all these shortcomings. Create an electronic textbook is easy using the free program iBooks Author.
In iBooks Author incorporated a lot of patterns in various subjects. The program allows you to add your own text and images by simply dragging. It is possible to embed an interactive photo galleries, movies, presentations and 3D-models of objects. In 2014, the iBooks textbooks have covered 100% of the basic educational program needed to obtain a high school diploma in the UK, Australia and the USA. To date, independent publishers and ordinary teachers in the whole world was created more than 25 000 educational books.
How to create an interactive textbook for iBooks:
Step 1: To create iBooks textbooks will need a Mac computer and Internet access. Before you start, you need to install the free app iBooks Author from the store Mac App Store. After opening the program will offer templates books, each of which shows the possibility of using the built-in demos.
Step 2: To motivate and attract the attention of the reader can be used screensever- short and effective portion of the video, which is placed at the beginning. Then simply drag and drop pre-generated text added. This can be done from a Word file or PDF. Plus, you can instantly add to the decoration of photos. To do this, go to the iBooks Author program in the top menu "Widgets", then "Gallery" and then in the imposition will be an interactive window and the program will tell you how best to accommodate. Then go to the usual "Explorer", drag the mouse from the image to be placed in a tutorial (in my case is an illustration of how to change the borders of the state for 100 years).
Step 3: iBooks Textbooks allow the use of 3D-objects to improve visibility material. The First World War has become famous in that it used a lot of never before used military equipment.
The possibility of using three-dimensional objects allows the details to show the different models of aircraft and weapons. Perhaps this is the most dramatic part of the lesson - the audience can rotate the screen and 3D-models of watch chronicled.
Three-dimensional models can be easily found on the Internet, for example, I uploaded model of gun "Maxim". Put in the textbook model as easily as any image. Necessary in the program iBooks Author to go to the top menu "Widgets", then «3D», and then again by simply dragging the mouse to add a 3D-object in the tutorial (3D file format commonly used ".dae").A similar sequence of steps you can add to any part of the book video fragments.
Step 4: To make sure that users carefully viewed video of and acquainted with the material, you can add a test with questions that are created in iBooks Author can be just one click away. Processing of the test can be assigned to an e-mail the teacher, that will receive the results of the responses of the whole class in a table Excel. The results are displayed in the form of diagrams, making it easy to assess the level of both individual students and the entire class. It's great to save time.
Step 5: An important function of textbooks iBooks - the possibility of adding a glossary. To create enough to enter in the same section of the program iBooks Author and simply copying add some definitions from the dictionary. After adding a glossary of terms can only associate it with the selected portions of the textbook - it is as simple as adding a hyperlink, which leads to a term in the glossary.
Ready tutorial exported format iBooks, then you can pass it on to the plates iPad, a wireless network using Wi-Fi.
