My presentation from the OTC12 conference--"A personal per

1. iBooks Author
a personal perspective on creating books for
the iPad

2. Visual
Thinking
Course Book

3. Michael Kieley
Teaches VISUAL THINKING @ Loyola Marymount
University (learnvisualthinking.com)
EdTech Explorer (edtechexplore.wordpress.com)
Furniture Designer (mkieley.com)
Lives in Los Angeles
Degrees in Architecture, Sculpture, and Psychology
Phone: 707 mki-eley / Email: michael@mkieley.com

4. MIND MAP BIO

5. Some Inspirations:
atavist.com (not an IBA book, but interesting).
iPad books made by photographers - Barcelona
by Jay Boersma
Kids Love Bugs - Dr. Kemp
Wilco - concert book

6. finding Multi-
touch books...
hard to find in iBooks 2 store on iPad.
Why?
got to iTunes store > Books > Featured:
Multi-touch. 40 examples. Click on
‘browse more books made with iBooks
Author’ Currently there are about 1800
paid books, and 3500 free books.
Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/
MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeature?
id=525590992&mt=11&s=143441

7. Your iBook ideas:
What are you already working on?
What sort of multi-touch book are you
planning to create?
Dream project: given vast amounts of time,
and a budget to hire a graphic designer, a
multi-media creator, a photographer, etc.,
what sort of book would you make with IBA?

8. Some possible directions...

9. Dream / make a mind map...

10. Getting started -
Organize your media in a desktop folder...
Desktop file folders arranged like this make it easy to
locate content while working in IBA.

11. Option: start your book
in Pages.
Easier to make multiple versions; ePub, PDF, etc.
Probably easier to outline, organize the text, but
you might want to move it into IBA sooner, rather
than later, so you incorporate a full palette of
multi-media.

12. EVIL Apple? (EULA terms)
The initial legal ambiguity has been resolved--You
own your content.
Free books can be distributed in iBooks 2, or any
other way you wish such as a DropBox link, or
email (good luck with that as the files can be
huge).
IBA format multi-touch books can only be sold
through the iBooks store.

13. Excellent IBA Tutorials
Lynda.com (releasing in late June).
Monster List of iBook Tutorials (http://
appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/04/monster-list-of-ibook-tutorials.html)
Free book from O’Reilly Press (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/
0636920025597.do)

14. Easy ways to create / find
media your iPad book
Shoot a video with an iPhone (convert with
Quicktime.
Import a Keynote presentation using IBA widget.
Cut up a magazine and make an (analog)
photomontage
Use your own photos - analog or digital

15. More easy ways to
create / find your media...
If you teach art, design, or film, asks your students
for permission to use their work.
Barter with friends who are graphic designers.
Creative Commons sources.
Items with expired copyright.

16. Advanced media
creation
Draw a 3d object or building in Google SketchUp,
and export as a Collada file.
Make your own images in Illustrator of Photoshop.

17. Free photos
items out of copyright
Creative commons
Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/
creativecommons/)

18. Templates
Book Palette by Jumsoft $9.99 for 20 templates
(http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-palette/id497704085?mt=12)
http://www.ibooksauthortemplates.com/
& the six templates that come with IBA that can be
customized.

19. The first book I wanted to write was something I hoped to
get published by a traditional book publisher.
It was going to be a Visual Manual for Enhanced Creativity.

20. STARTED A DETAILED BOOK PROPOSAL
I LEARNED HOW TO DO THIS IN A BOOK PUBLISHING CLASS TAKEN AT ART CENTER COLLEGE

21. WRITING RETREAT
5 WEEKS ALONE IN THE DESERT GAVE ME TIME TO POLISH THE PROPOSAL

22. AND THEN I STUCK IT IN A DRAWER FOR THREE YEARS...
WHY?
(PROBABLY BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO WAIT AROUND FOR
REJECT LETTERS FROM A TRADITIONAL PUBLISHER)

23. APPLES ANNOUNCES IBOOKS AUTHOR
APPLE ANNOUNCES A DIY APP FOR TEXTBOOKS
IBA REQUIRES LION SYSTEM 10.7 SO I RUN OUT & BUY A NEW MAC

24. I WAS WORKING ON TWO BOOKS...
1ST - COMPILATION OF THE CREATIVE TACTICS I DEVELOPED FOR MY COURSE IN VISUAL THINKING

25. SOMEHOW I GOT STUCK, BY FOCUSING TOO MUCH WRITING THE TEXT
2ND - A SATYRICAL ROMANTIC MEMOIR

26. BUT WHAT REALLY INTERESTS ME ARE IMAGES!
CREATING / DISTRIBUTING A MULTI-MEDIA BOOK WITH IBA SEEMED MUCH MORE MY STYLE

27. A little bit
about Widgets
WIDGETS
EASY MULTI MEDIA INTEGRATION

28. Simply drop photos in, after
clicking on “Gallery” widget.
Give each a caption.

29. Drop a movie into the Media
widget.
Must be m4v. iPhone movie
can be converted by
exporting from QuickTime.
Using lots of video means
IBA books file size can be
HUGE!

30. A simple way to pose
questions, so the reader can
be sure they are
understanding the key
principles.

31. Simply drop a Keynote into
the window that opens after
you click on the Widget.

32. An idea for Interactive Images: Make a
mind map using MindNode, or draw one by
hand. Zoom in on different parts by
clicking on titles for each section.

33. An idea for Interactive Images: Make a
mind map using MindNode, or draw one by
hand. Zoom in on different parts by
clicking on titles for each section.

34. An idea for Interactive Images: Make a
mind map using MindNode, or draw one by
hand. Zoom in on different parts by
clicking on titles for each section.

35. Google
SketchUp
Click on box with Yellow
arrow pointing down, then
export as Colada file (.dae)

36. Your iBook ideas:
What are you already working on?
What sort of multi-touch book are you
planning to create?
Dream project: given vast amounts of time,
and a budget to hire a graphic designer, a
multi-media creator, a photographer, etc.,
what sort of book would you make with IBA?

37. >> brainstorm your own
IBA book ideas by filling in
the mind map shown in
the next slide...

39. mkieley@lmu.edu
LearnVisualThinking.com