Tag Archives: digital books
Understanding ebooks
Posted in Techniques & Tips
Doug Loader November 4, 2012
Doug Loader November 4, 2012
Ebook or Electronic Book – An electronic version of a printed book; Ebooks hold massive potential for the education sector. I work at a school where we deployed Apple MacBooks to over 1000 students. Almost 3 years later and students still seem to be carrying heavy bags full of additional text books. Clearly we need to do more …
TarHeel Reader Books: A great resource for iBooks on your iPad
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Tips and Tricks
Barbara Landsberg December 8, 2011
Barbara Landsberg December 8, 2011
As the Spectronics consultancy team travel around Australia and New Zealand, they are often asked about how to create customised books and bookshelves on the iPad. Books which students can read in self-selected reading time or just for their own enjoyment. Jane Farrall, Spectronics’ Senior Speech Pathologist, recently wrote a helpful guide which steps you through the process …
TarHeel Reader Books – a great resource for iBooks on your iPad
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, Tips and Tricks
Jane Farrall November 17, 2011
Jane Farrall November 17, 2011
Over the past few weeks I have presented quite a few workshops where I have talked about making custom bookshelves within iBooks for self-selected reading time – or just for making a range of books available for students to enjoy! One of the resources I have been using to contribute to custom bookshelves is TarHeel Reader books, imported …
iPads in Special Education
Posted in iPad Basics, Workshops
Jane Farrall October 4, 2011
Jane Farrall October 4, 2011
This presentation was created for a series of workshops on iPads in Special Education in late 2011 held in Perth and locations in Victoria. The presentation uses links and information contained on our Apple and iPad information page at http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/apple/.
TarHeel Reader – a fabulous literacy resource for ALL
Posted in Permanent Resources, Tools & Resources, Web links
Jane Farrall August 15, 2011
Jane Farrall August 15, 2011
I strongly believe that everyone has the right to learn to read and write and it is our role to make sure that every student we work with develops the best literacy skills possible. As part of this we need to have high interest texts on topics of their choice available to all the students we work with …
Read2Go App – Ready Set Read! for Students with Learning Difficulties
Posted in Accessibility and Access, Apps and Mobile Learning, New Technologies, Teaching and Learning, Web links
Jane Farrall July 29, 2011
Jane Farrall July 29, 2011
Read2Go, the new accessible eBook reader for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available for download from the iTunes App store. Read2Go works with Bookshare. Any book available to you through your Bookshare login can now be downloaded to your iPad or iPod touch and read on your mobile device – offering a more accessible, portable …
Universal Access using eBooks, Readers and Devices
Posted in Tools & Resources
Gerry Kennedy March 22, 2011
Gerry Kennedy March 22, 2011
1. Introduction An electronic book (also e-book, E-book, EBook, eBook, digital book) is a text and image-based publication in digital form produced on, published by, and readable on computers or other digital devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as “an electronic …
Route 66 – Online Literacy Program for Adults and Adolescents
Posted in Tools & Resources, Web links
Jane Farrall March 9, 2011
Jane Farrall March 9, 2011
Route 66 is awesome! It is a balanced literacy instructional program for adults and adolescents that anyone can use. Aimed at adolescents and adults who are also beginning readers, Route 66 offers a well designed literacy program, incorporating reading, writing and word study elements. A fabulous resource that will benefit many.
Bookshare, Read:OutLoud 6 and the Read2Go App: exciting news for Bookshare members
Posted in Apps and Mobile Learning, New Technologies, Tools & Resources, Web links
Jane Farrall February 11, 2011
Jane Farrall February 11, 2011
For those of you who are Bookshare members there is exciting news afoot! If you aren’t a Bookshare member yet please check out the information provided by Anita in a previous blog. As a Bookshare member there are some great Reading Tools available to help you get the most out of the eBooks you download. The exciting news …
Bookshare is now available to Australians who have a print disability
Posted in Tools & Resources, Web links
Anita Raftery June 10, 2010
Anita Raftery June 10, 2010
Bookshare is now available to Australians who have a print disability! The Association for the Blind of Western Australia and Bookshare.org offer Bookshare services to Australians. Bookshare is a service which can provide a reader who has a print disability access to a wide range of titles in DAISY text only format. To download copyrighted books, you must …
