Wednesday
Sep012010
Pages - Export as EPub format ... the possibilities?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 10:43PM Apple released a new version of Pages last week. I downloaded it and didn't pay much attention for a couple of days. The primary function the update added was to export Pages documents in the ePub format. I thought who is going to use this, to get your documents formatted correctly is going to be a huge pain. Then around Sunday a few articles started trickling out, including a support page from Apple on how to set up your documents for the ePub format. This included a sample document that you could copy settings from to set up your documents correctly. So on Monday I tried it.
This immediately changed my mindset. I believe this is a game changer for the iPad/Phone/Touch. In about 20 minutes I had created a 4 page book from a document with embedded graphics, hyperlinks and video. My excitement over this grew as I thought about the possibilities for teachers and students. For a student to have the capability of writing a story, illustrating it and turning into an eBook in a short period of time really holds a lot of potential. Teachers could turn course syllabi and other documents that they have used for years into books to be loaded on all kinds of devices.
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Cross posted from the IEAR community ... Thanks @kdumont!
