Title: Creating Digital Textbooks
Course: Tech Tools for Teachers > Section: Textbooks 2.0

Moodle

Moodle is an open source learning management system and the software that runs our Online Learning Portal. Moodle enables teachers to create online courses that contain multimedia pages, links, assessments, discussion forums, and more.

Moodle can be used a replacement for the traditional textbooks, in that you can organize digital content into units. Content can be generated on Moodle itself (e.g. the text on this page was typed on Moodle itself), uploaded from existing documents (e.g. PDFs), or linked to/embedded from external sites.

This course is just one example of a Moodle course. Additional examples can be found at Moodleshare.org, a collection of Moodle courses created by other teachers and made availble for others to download. Here are few oustanding courses:

- Exploring Data
- Introduction to Geometry
- Myths & Legends of the Norsemen
- The Working Poor
- Science Writing: Interactive Notebook
- Human Geography

Lists

MentorMob

Connect online resources into a "learning playlist.

Diigo / Delicious

If you use either Diigo or Delicious to bookmark resources, you can organize your resources into lists (Diigo) or stacks (Delicious) and link to these. See the Online Bookmarking unit for more information.

eBooks (epubs)

If you want to create a downloadable textbook for students, create an epub file for offline reading on any eReader, tablet, or computer (videos will not display on all readers). Suggest software for reading epub files on non-eReader devices:

- Computer: Adobe Digital Editions (software), EPUBReader (Firefox add-on), or MagicScroll (web app)
- Apple iOS: iBooks
- Android: Mantano Reader, FBReader

Readlists

Bundle multiple webpages into a ebook compatible with any eReader, including Kindle, Nook, and iPad.Readlists can also be read online via the website.

ePubBud

Create multimedia ebooks in epub format, viewable online or via mobile devices. Account requires an email address.

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