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surprising, but not all good news. Our blogger on the advantages and disadvantages of digital textbooks and iBooks Apple Author

I'll admit something right now: I am a bit fan of Apple products. I have a MacBook, an iPhone and iPad 2 and always look forward to the next call to come out of Cupertino. When I heard the opening statement last week would involve an ad based on education, I was excited about everything - there was not much talk on the web around the idea of ??digital textbooks and I was intrigued by what the company had arrived.

For once, rumors on the Internet has done well. Apple announced two iBooks, digital textbooks and iBooks author. I searched the opening video on YouTube and it was a typical Apple promotional video: cheese and it comes with the ordinary, but certainly interesting and well done. My first thought was that this could change everything. Downloaded immediately life on Earth so I could see for myself.

So what a digital manual? Well, great, on the testimony of the LOE. Opening a source of inspiration to draw attention to the video is incredibly immersive. The content is excellent, with lots of text and images. There are more videos to watch, Keynote presentations and interactive quiz board at the end of the second chapter. It was certainly a rewarding experience and I wish I had one of these when I was in school many moons ago. Could digital textbooks will be the future?

many students do not like having to carry heavy stacks of books - in fact, sometimes do not like the way while keeping them at home! Digital textbooks are becoming a thing of the past. Students need only bring an iPad to school, something that many do it anyway in some schools.

Another big problem with the textbooks, as we all know is that they are often outdated as soon as printing, but the transition to digital would negate the need to continually buy latest information physical version of a text. With the latest technology from Apple, the manuals can be revised by updating iBooks. This should be a good thing.

For me, however, the most exciting part of this Announces Author iBooks. This service is available via the Mac App Store. It allows Mac users to create their own interactive books and submit them to the iBookstore or share them with other iPhone users. This could allow teachers the opportunity to create interactive systems of work for students to download, I thought, to create training resources immersion or customized textbooks from school in a fast and easy

Unfortunately, not all good news and there are some obvious drawbacks.

digital textbooks and workbooks created with iBooks author can be seen on the iPad. This could be a little short by Apple, mainly because the tablet is an inexpensive kit and no doubt many students and schools do not have the means. Schools are already struggling with their budgets and their cases will not be at the top of the list of things to buy. This can result in a technology gap between schools.

The second problem is the amount of disk space these books. Life on Earth is a download of about 1 GB and is only two chapters. The total volume can take up more than 16 GB iPhone. Not much good when you want to buy several textbooks
Finally, there is the matter with the consent of the author iBooks end-user license. This is an issue strong enough to discuss at length here and in itself is probably another blog for another day, but certainly you should read this article in 9to5mac.com. I do not know how I feel about this aspect of the announcement from Apple, but it is certainly causing some controversy.

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