DigitalText

Digital Texts for 21st Century Readers media type="youtube" key="x4BK_2VULCU?rel=0" height="360" width="640" align="center"
 * Session Type:** Wednesday AM, Thursday AM
 * Difficulty Level:** Intermediate
 * Date(s):** Jul 11, 2012 10:00 AM, Jul 12, 2012 10:00 AM
 * Description:** How do computers and mobile devices change the way we read? Explore books and reading in a digital age. This session will focus on accessing, sharing, highlighting and annotating, and even creating digital texts for classroom use.

Recent news from the Wall Street Journal, "Your E-Book is Reading YOU"
 * So what are people reading?**...Check out this Infographic

Legislation Push for eBook Textbooks by 2017


 * What do you see as the benefits & concerns with digital texts? **

//Published by ISTE in Learning & Leading with Technology, November 2011//
 * Reading Redefined** by Annette Lamb

Follow Blogs with an RSS Reader Great responsive news reading apps: Zite, Pulse, Flipboard Text Collections with Readability
 * Articles & News:**
 * Blogs for Teachers
 * Blogs for Students
 * Reading & Responding to Blogs (Created by 4th Grade Teacher, Greg Alloway)

Mission US–a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games. iCivics Simulation Games
 * Interactive Simulations:**
 * Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. They encounter both Patriots and Loyalists, and when rising tensions result in the Boston Massacre, they must choose where their loyalties lie.
 * In Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom,” players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. As they navigate her escape and journey to Ohio, they discover that life in the “free” North is dangerous and difficult. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act brings disaster. Will Lucy ever truly be free?
 * Check out "Do I Have a Right?"

The 39 Clues by Various Authors Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman Trackers by Patrick Carman The Amanda Project by Various Authors The Search for Wondla by Tony DiTerlizzi media type="youtube" key="0D4CTcYnwd4?rel=0" height="360" width="640" align="center"
 * New "Transmedia" Genre of Books:**

Augmented Reality Demonstration

253: An Interactive Novel About the London Underground in Seven Cars and a Crash (Secondary) U-Ventures: Classic Choose Your Own Adventure Stories (iPad Apps $3.99 each)

The Elements by Theodore Gray (Book Trailer) ($6.99) Moving-Tales ($6.99 each) U-Ventures: Classic Choose Your Own Adventure Stories (iPad Apps $3.99 each)
 * Books as Apps:**


 * The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (Don't miss this one! Also available as an App for iPad!) **

Sesame Street offers FREE eBook of the Week

CK-12 Flexbooks Open Source Digital Math Textbooks Online Biology Textbook Digital History
 * Digital Textbooks**

Example of student created work: Meet Snowflake by Rachel Fryer ePub Bud–Browse, Convert, Read, and Sell your own eBooks (All FREE) Dot.ePub**–**Download any webpage as an ebook (ePub or Kindle formats) How to Create & Publish an eBook for Kindle Demibooks Composer (App for iPad)
 * Creating Your Own eBooks**

LuLu–Now you can create your own ePub books

Mac Users...Pages, iBooks Author