Example files for workshop
Completed Shark Book
Shark Files to Make Book

10 Things to Know

1. iBooks Author is a OSX App only. You must be running OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks to download.
2. iBooks Author is a Free App. You can download it through the Mac App Store.
3. Books created and produced in the iBooks format from iBooks Author can be read on an iPad or Mac running Mavericks.
4. Books created with iBooks Author can be exported as PDFs
5. You do not need to upload your book to iTunes to be able to share it.
6. You can upload and share your book to the iBookstore through iTunes.
7. If you want to sell your book, you must upload it through iTunes and have it approved.
8.  Accessibility tools are built into iBooks Author.
9. The interactivity makes the book!
10. There is no such thing as an iBook (Though we will use that term a lot in this workshop, it is incorrect).

Workshop Agenda

1. Welcome and Overview
2. Multi-touch book and iTunes U Course demonstration

• Download iBooks App from App Store
• Explore books from the iBookstore
• Reading a book created by iBooks Author
  • Practice highlighting and note-taking in an iBook
  •  Create and use study cards 
  • Accessibility in iBooks
• Books Shown in Presentation
  • The Lives of an Eanes Pioneer Child
  • Functions
  • Calling Nature
  • Invertebrates
  • Extending the Use of iOS in Teaching and Learning
• What iBooks Author provides
• iBooks Author Resources
  • Bookry
  • Getting Started with iBooks Author
  • iOS iBook - includes chapter on iBooks Author and iTunesU Courses
  • Publishing with iBooks Author (Free book from O'Reilly
  • 3D Objects from Sketchup 3D Warehouse
  • Starting a Book - Files for the Shark Book

• Choosing a template
• Tour of the interface
• The Editing Window
• Book Menu
• Toolbar
• Format Bar
• Inspector
• Chapters, Sections, Pages

Page and Book Elements

• Text
  • Photos
  • Text Boxes

• Objects
  • Shape
  • Tables
  • Charts

• Widgets
  • Gallery
  • Media
  • Review
  • Keynote
  • Interactive
  • 3D
  • Scrolling Sidebar
  • Pop-Over
  • HTML 
  • Widgets Book

​inish Page and Book Elements - 20 Min.

Publishing your books

• Review previewing book
• Publishing to the iBookstore
• Publishing through an iTunesU Course
• Exporting File and Posting to a Website

iTunesU

• iTunesU Course Manager
• Setting up Course
• Outline
• Posts
• Materials
• Publishing

iTunesU Sites - Canyons SD iTunesU Site

• Applying for a site
• Site Manager

Summary/DeBrief