{"id":1195,"date":"2012-11-19T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2012-11-19T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:01:12","slug":"making-ebooks-with-nwp-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1195","title":{"rendered":"Making ebooks with NWP folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had the privilege of facilitating a short session on making ebooks as a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwp.org\">National Writing Project<\/a> Annual Meeting. As with all NWP-related activities, this was great fun.<\/p>\n<p>We started out by brainstorming possible uses for ebooks in learning environments (see ideas below) and then went through some specifics of making ebooks with <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">Calibre<\/a>, a free, open source tool that outputs a variety of formats of ebooks. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Calibre-quick-start1.doc\">Handout here<\/a>. Feel free to redistribute and reuse.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ebookideas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1197\" title=\"ebookideas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ebookideas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ebookideas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ebookideas-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ebookideas.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I really liked about this informal session was that we were able to discuss a variety of related topics that have a broader impact on learning, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The benefits of sharing under an open license, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The potential of make-your-own curriculum<br \/>\n(One cool idea that came up was assembling student writing anthologies to use as reading samples. &#8220;We pay a lot of money for anthologies like this, and our students&#8217; work is just as good or better.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>New distribution options that this kind of technology opens up<\/li>\n<li>Disruption in the publishing industry<\/li>\n<li>The pros and cons of different authoring platforms, especially as it relates to proprietary vs. open<\/li>\n<li>The intersection of technologies like this with one-to-one programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some ebooks were made during this session, and many inspiring ideas for future projects were mentioned. If you have your own ideas or self-published ebooks you&#8217;ve made, we&#8217;d love to see a link or comment posted here.<\/p>\n<p>I would also love to see an ebook anthology of the great work in <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/\">Digital Is<\/a>. Would others find this useful? (Maybe if someone else doesn&#8217;t jump on this first, I&#8217;ll put it on a to do list of my own.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who took part in this and to NWP for inviting me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I had the privilege of facilitating a short session on making ebooks as a part of the National Writing Project Annual Meeting. As with all NWP-related activities, this was great fun. 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