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October 29, 2011 Books, Featured Carousel, iPad 4 Comments

Our first graders created their own eBook for the iBook. I have had many request to share the Butterfly ePub file with other teachers, so they could use it as an example for their own classes.

Leave our first graders a comment, tell them where in the world (geographically) you are reading their book. Maybe you can also share any other facts or stories about Monarch butterflies to help them continue learning.

If you are reading this post on your iPad or iPhone, simple click on the ePub link, and choose to open in “iBook”. Otherwise, if you are on your computer, download the ePub link and drag it into your iTunes library before you sync your device to it.

I also created a ~~FlipSnack~~ Issuu book to be placed on the classroom blog, for parents and relatives of the students, who do not have an eReader, to view the file.

FlipSnack only showed the first 15 pages of the book, so I switches to Issuu.

It was a little tedious to be able to create the pdf file from the ePub file. I wish that ~~FlipSnack~~ Issuu would allow ePub files to directly be uploaded to their service.

take a screenshot of each page of the book.
export the images
crop the image (so the time and battery life of iPad was not visible)
import each image into separate PowerPoint slide
export the ppt to a PDF
upload PDF to ~~FlipSnack~~ Issuu
grab the embed code and embed on classroom blog

Open publication – Free publishing – More butterfly

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Bill Gaskins says:

29. October, 2011 at 3:25 pm

Wow! This is cool….
Bill Gaskins recently posted..A Dropout Factory!!!! Read and Listen for Change
- Helen Lazzaro says:
  
  30. October, 2011 at 9:14 am
  
  This is my shared bookshelf of epubs created by students and teachers.
  
  Checkout edu.epubbud.com where you can create a bookshelf of student work and then share with parents. eBooks are read online with the Reader button, or ebooks can be downloaded to be used with eReaders.
  
  You can send parents the link to view online –
  Helen Lazzaro recently posted..New Books
  - Helen Lazzaro says:
    
    30. October, 2011 at 9:16 am
    
    The link didn’t appear so here it is:
    
    http://edu.epubbud.com/group.php?g=W6Z4V85H
    
    Here is the link to the shared bookshelf that contains group work – all shared in one place for students, so they can read other students work.’
@subialm says:

6. March, 2013 at 6:04 am

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