Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: books

  • Rachel Shares a Story about a 3rd Grade Class Enhanced eBook

    This week in iPad Media Camp at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, it was a great joy to teach alongside both my daughters, Sarah and Rachel. On day 3, when we focused on eBooks and interactive writing, Rachel shared the story of how her 3rd grade teacher last year learned about creating enhanced eBooks with…

  • Write Well, Sell Well Conference Sept 21, 2013 in Oklahoma City

    For the past several months, I’ve been meeting with three outstanding authors who live in the Oklahoma City area and have dreamed for years of organizing their own conference for writers and aspiring writers. Together, Rene Gutteridge, Melanie Hemry, and Cheri Fuller have published over 70 books with traditional print publishers. Today I’m thrilled to…

  • Mapping Media to the Common Core: Volume I eBook Now Available

    Coinciding with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio this week, I’m elated to announce the publication of my second ebook, “Mapping Media to the Common Core: Volume I.” The eBook is available for immediate download worldwide in both ePUB and Kindle (.mobi) formats for $4.99. The book description is:…

  • Read an Enhanced eBook in the Chrome Browser with Readium

    This past semester, third graders in Ms. Moore’s classroom (in Oklahoma City Public Schools) wrote and published an original book titled, “Our Favorite Books.” They used an iPad Mini and the wonderful app, “Book Creator” by Red Jumper to include photographs of their artwork, their written text, and audio recordings of their voices reading each…

  • Why Map Media to the Curriculum? (April 2013)

    (cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) These are resources Wesley Fryer shared today with teachers in Saskatoon Public School Division over Skype on the topic, “Why Map Media to the Curriculum?” An audio recording of this session is also available. In his 50 minute presentation Wesley specifically focused on student-created media projects including eBooks and “narrated art.” Why…

  • Understanding Why eBooks “Feel Different”

    This is the best explanation I’ve read to-date about how and why ebooks “feel different” than print books for readers. I particularly like the analogy to Google Maps: In contrast [to print books], most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their…

  • Playing with Media eBook Available on Google Play: For SubText Users!

    My 2011 eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing” is now available on Google Play. A “standard ePUB version” of this eBook has been available from my PlayingWithMedia website and on the Barnes & Noble eBookstore for Nook since July of 2011, but I’ve additionally published the eBook on Google Play now because…

  • Prepping a new iPad Mini for 3rd Grade

    I’m hoping to loan a new iPad Mini to my daughter’s 3rd grade teacher for the rest of this semester, so she and her students can create enhanced eBooks with some of the stories / writing projects they’ve been working on. Today I configured it with apps I’d previously purchased on my iTunes account, which…

  • iAuthor an iBook: Creating iBooks on the iPad by Meg Wilson

    These are my notes from Meg Wilson‘s breakout presentation, “iAuthor an iBook: Creating iBooks on the iPad” at the 2013 ICE Conference outside Chicago, Illinois. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. AT THE START OF THIS SESSION I USED HOLLER GRAM (FREE) ON MY IPAD TO SHARE SOME ENCOURAGEMENT FOR MEG. 🙂 Meg…

  • Les Miserables 2012: A Powerful Film That Will Make You Weep

    This weekend I was blessed with an opportunity to see the 2012 movie and musical, Les Miserables. It was incredible. I read Les Mis in high school, and it was the first off-Broadway musical my wife and I saw in Lubbock, Texas, in the early 2000s. It’s an incredibly moving and powerful tale, but this…