New from BookNet Canada for 2024: BNC CataList - Tech Forum 2024
The iPad Classroom
1. The iPad Classroom
Todd Marks
CEO & President
Todd.Marks@mindgrub.com
@mindgrub
2. Objectives
This presentation will answer the following
questions:
• What are the benefits of tablets for education
• What does the future of curriculum look like
• What resources are currently available for
tablets
• How do you create eLearning content for
tablets
9. Mobile Web in 2013
• Over 5 BILLION mobile device users worldwide.
• The average iPhone user only spends 45% of his on-
device time making voice calls.
• Games are bigger than any other app category —
both for the social web and for mobile devices.
• Video accounts for 69% of mobile data traffic.
• Facebook is the single largest repository for user-
generated content
• Real-time technology and location-based services are
expected to drive mobile retail.
13. ePub (Electronic Publication)
is a free and open e-book standard by the
International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
Files have the extension .epub.
Several ebook readers and publications tools
available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
16. Workshop: ePUB
Software required:
• Microsoft Office (preferred), Sun OpenOffice, or
Google Docs
• Calibre, an open-source e-book manager
Directions:
1. Open the document in Word, OpenOffice, or Google
Doc.
2. Save/Export the document (under file menu) as a
.RTF file.
17. Workshop: ePUB
3. Open Calibre.
4. Click “Add books” at the top, find the .rtf
file that was just created, and click open
5. There is now a new book in the list in
the center of the screen. Select the book
by single clicking it.
18. Workshop: ePUB
6. Click the “Convert books” button at the
top of the screen.
7. Fill out the metadata with the proper
information for that book.
8. Click the “EPUB Output” tab on the left
side of the screen.
9. Check the “No default cover” checkbox.
19. Workshop: ePUB
10. Click OK and the the job will begin in the
lower right corner. It will be done when it says
“Jobs: 0” in the lower right corner. The .epub
e-book has been created.
11. Single click the same book title again on the
listing.
12. Click the “View” button and you can view
the .epub book in calibre’s e-book viewer.
24. Workshop: Android Apps
1. Open Captivate and create or open your Captivate
presentation.
2. Create an SWF from your captivate presentation
a. Click File->Publish
b. Name "Project Title" something significant.
c. Choose the "Folder" location so you remember, and
click "Publish To Folder", this will put the SWF in a
folder with the same name as the Project Title.
25. Workshop: Android Apps
d. Change the save to the folder created in step 1
e. Check "Enable SWF for conversion to iPhone app" if
you're planning on that.
f. Click "Publish" in the lower right side of the publish
window
g. Choose "yes", and "OK" on the next warning, to
preview the SWF. (or choose no to skip)
3. Close Captivate (to conserve resources)
26. Workshop: Android Apps
4. Open Flash Professional
5. Click File->New...->AIR for Android (Or select the
same from the splash screen that pops up)
6. Click File->Save, navigate to the captivate project
folder, and name and save the .FLA file here. Save
with a name that is different than the name of your
published swf file.
28. Workshop: Android Apps
7. On the bottom half of the screen, click the "Actions -
Frame" tab, and in the blank box, paste the
following:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var url:URLRequest = new
URLRequest("presentation.swf");
myLoader.load(url);
addChild(myLoader);
stop();
29. Workshop: Android Apps
8. Change presentation.swf to match name of your
captivate swf file that was published.
9. Click File->Publish Settings...
10. Make sure Player drop down is set to AIR for
Android
11. Make sure Script drop down is ActionScript 3.0
12. Under "Included Files", click the +, and find the
captivate swf and add it.
13. Click the wrench next to Player drop down
31. Workshop: Android Apps
14. Select a directory for the output file and choose the
same folder everything else is in (Sometimes it will
output to a my documents location, so make sure
you set this even if it looks like it's already set)
15. Click the deployment tab
16. On Certificate, Click "create..."
17. Enter information, it doesn't matter, but you must
remember your password.
32. Workshop: Android Apps
18. Under save as... save it to the same folder as
everything else.
19. When generated, enter your password again in the
"password" box below certificate location.
20. Click "remember password for this session".
21. Under "after publishing" click both checkboxes to
allow the android app to run after publishing.
33. Workshop: Android Apps
22. Make sure your android is plugged into the
computer.
23. Click "Publish" in the lower right of the window. A
warning will be generated about
permissions. this is OK.
24. After publishing, the android app will be installed
and run on the android device.
25. The app can be found in the captivate folder, it is
the file with the .apk extension.
35. iPad App Store
• http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-
store/education.html
36. Workshop: iPhone Apps
• iPhone Apps need to be developed
directly in Flash CS5 or as Native ObjC
Code
• Captivate files do not work well without
a command line compiler, but can
optionally be brought into Flash CS5 for
further development and export.
