The iPad has perked my interest since in was released. But I wondered how useful would it be in a classroom setting? A demo from Apple soon had some answers. The demo involved using iBooks to access multimedia resources.
Create an ePub document
Create interactive document in Pages (drag links from Safari, drag in Podcasts from Media browser)
Export as ePub document (untick ‘show first page as cover’)
Drag this file into iTunes
Can you upload this ePub file to a website for students to download into their own iTunes Books?
Can you create a free iTunes account to distribute content?
