Alaskan Epublishing Links

Publishing your book to Amazon/Kindle

http://screencast.com/t/375Mf1NRnBvr

Sci-Fi Author Brian Rathbone shares how to self-publish in 5 minutes.

Here is a list of ePublishing resources:

eBook Retailers:

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (Pros: Huge worldwide market share, major ebook market, very easy publishing.)

http://kdp.amazon.com

Barnes and Noble PubIt! (Pros: Large North American market, expanding internationally, very easy publishing.)

http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com

Kobo Writing Life (Pros: Large international market, open standards based system, very easy publishing.)

http://writinglife.kobobooks.com

Apple iTunes Connect (Pros: Huge market and

http://itunesconnect.apple.com

http://books.google.com/partner

eBook Distributors:

Book Baby (Pros: They take care of distributing your book to the above retailers and more. You keep 100% of royalties. Cons: They charge a $99 fee per book.)

http://bookbaby.com

Smashwords (Pros: Distributes to many retailers. Takes 15% cut of royalties. Cons: Requires technical skill and a lot of patience.)

http://smashwords.com

Print On Demand Distributors

Createspace (Pros: Easy paperback and picture book creation. Free except $25 fee per book for expanded distribution. Cons: Book stores won't stock PoD books. No hardcover distribution.

http://createspace.com

Lightningsource (Pros: Hardcover and paperback. Direct distribution through Ingram Books. Cons: Perhaps not as easy for beginners than Createspace.)

http://lightningsource.com

eBook formatting Guide:

Smashwords style guide (ebooks formatted to these specifications should work on all other platforms after nothing more than removing "Smashwords Edition" from the front matter)

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52

Blogs:

J. A. Konrath's A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com

Thanks,

Brian Rathbone

Senior Telecommunications Specialist

NC Department of Commerce

NC Broadband Division

828-351-9977

brathbone@nccommerce.com

The link below is an interview with my friend Brian, a successful Scifi author and Guy Kawaski who wrote apethebook.com (400 links at the site)

Frank,

As it turned out, my meeting with Guy was in the format of an author critique with Guy and his team. The good news is that you can see the whole thing here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yAkpJrF23Qg

It's an hour long, but I'd be interested in your thoughts if you get a chance to check it out.

Brian Rathbone

Senior Telecommunications Specialist

NC Department of Commerce

NC Broadband Division

828-351-9977

brathbone@nccommerce.com

What is Itunes?: http://www.apple.com/itunes

Book Publishers: Frequently Asked Questions (Answers from Apple)

http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html

See also the links at this site for; Marketing, Affiliate programs, Selling your Book

Sell your book on the IbookStore

1. Sign upComplete your application for either a Paid or Free Books Account.

2. Confirm accountClick through your account approval email to complete your application and confirm your email address.

3. Download iTunes ProducerDownload our delivery application, iTunes Producer (requires OS X v10.6 or later).

4. DeliverUsing iTunes Producer, provide your book’s basic information and click Deliver.

Once your application has been approved, use the guides on iTunes Connect for best practices and style guidelines for publishing books. To offer your book on the iBookstore, you must submit a complete work and must also work in the latest version of iBooks without technical issues. It will be reviewed to avoid inaccuracies, illegal content, orthographical and typographical errors, low-resolution images, and so on. To avoid delays, be sure to test and review your book fully to make sure it complies with all iBookstore policies before submission. Learn More

iBooks Author. The app that rewrote the book.

With iBooks Author, a free app from the Mac App Store, anyone can make a book for iPad — complete with rich graphics, movies, photo galleries, Keynote animations, 3D objects, and more.

The Apple ItuneU online course authoring site is very simple, and students could easily create a first mini-lesson using Ipads to be posted on an ItunesU site. Note the link to the online course authoring site is included http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/?ref=http://itunes.com

Ebook sites to market your Ibooks

Amazon (kindle format)

Apple Ibooks

ItunesU (books and courses)

Barnes and Noble

Emagazine publishing: (newsstand app)

Magcastwebinarfull http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=81lhXxItkYQ#!  

SEE RIGHT SIDEBAR for more videos.

APP creation and Marketing (no coding required)

This video tells you how Chad got started in apps. It starts with a car accident...literally! Here about Chad's story here

 
http://www.appempire.com/video/myth-optin/

Apps empire youtube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wATPjoM5xWI

SEE RIGHT SIDEBAR for more videos!

Online publishing and Emarketing free lessons
http://challenge.co/training
Ed Dale has been doing interesting things for 10 years or more

Epublishing online courses:

ItuneU as online course format
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/?ref=http://itunes.com

Udemy.com A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching http://benton.org/node/123470

EBAY and social media
http://socialenterprisetoday.com/blog/posts/revealed-ebays-playbook-for-social-business-adoption/

Making money from Youtube (monetizing your channel)

YouTube for Profit
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html

PBS Stations Need to Become the Youtube of Local Communities http://currentpublicmedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/pbs-stations-need-to-become-youtube-of.html?spref=tw

MOOCs? Massively Open Online Courses - trends

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?page=0%2C0

Decentralizing education: how startups are dismantling the university

http://www.kurzweilai.net/decentralizing-education-how-startups-are-dismantling-the-university

MOOCs and the Future of Education

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681507/the-future-of-education-eliminates-the-classroom-because-the-world-is-your-class

Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

http://benton.org/node/143921

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/education/public-universities-to-offer-free-online-classes-for-credit.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from higher edu. TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html

MOOCs From Elite Colleges Transform Online Higher Education

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/mooc-massive-open-online-courses_n_1744430.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

OPEN UNIVERSITY LEARNING

The Open University offers 600+ online courses. They have student forums where students can share and discuss any topics of interest to them.
Hoot.me lets you convert facebook into study mode to connect with students and tutors around the world.
Openstudy.com is a social learning network where students can ask questions, give help, and connect to other students studying the same subject.

Smarterer allows you to take tests in order to prove your skills in a wide span of subjects — from facebook to CSS to English for Business. You can share your scores, and recruiters can even evaluate candidates by comparing Smarterer scores.
Udacity will give students’ resumes to over 20 partner companies. Their course certifications are recognized by major technology companies who are actively recruiting from the Udacity student body.
edX, a joint venture between MIT and Harvard, is awarding certificates to students who show a mastery of the subject of their course.
Coursera offers a certificate of completion for some of their courses.
Code Hero awards badges when a course is completed.

Alison article http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/open-education-for-a-global-economy/?hp

Library of Congress Self Paced On-line Modules

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/selfdirected/

I like the visuals, the ability to control the pace of the content presented, the easy of navigating through the content, the options for additional exploration, the ability to hear and read the information, the visuals shown to reinforce the content information and the length of time to complete a module for the amount of content presented.

<http://www.utne.com/Politics/Do-It-Yourself-University-Open-Education-Movement.aspx>The Learning Class

The coming transformation in higher education...

global innovation game on facebook from http://www.fpspi.org/ future problem solving program international, Alaska Future Problem Solving Program http://www.alaskafpsp.org/contact.html

Fast company on online universities:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?page=0%2C0

Elearning Business Success Stories:
http://diyubook.com An organized collection of free online training resources, which highlights the boom in commercial Elearning business successes. Something SNG might consider since Lone Eagle has 25 years experience with Elearning, and over ten years specific to online teaching for rural ecommerce and telework strategies. Attached is the free Ebook from this site, funded by Gates fndn, derived from "The coming transformation of higher education.) $9 used at Amazon, start with Chapter 4 "computer science"

DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Story Maker http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/story-maker

Story Bird http://storybird.com

Jason Ohler’s Digital Storytelling Resources
http://jasonohler.com/storytelling
Offering a free Ebook on digital storytelling and related resources.

Digital Storytelling - Mark Standley

www.mstandley.com/digital_storytelling.pdf

PUBLICATIONS - Brett Dillingham / Storyteller

www.brettdillingham.com/publications/

More Digital Storytelling links at
http://lone-eagles.com/toolkit.htm

Storytelling www.verdesmoke.com http://storiesforchange.net
final draft video storytelling www.journeyed.com

Center for digital storytelling, Berkley California

www.storycenter.org

Joe Lambert, Director

(free Ebook download available)

Digital Storybook Projects

Some of the resources I found are:
How to create and implement digital storytelling in your curriculum
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/05_2012.pdf

http://home.pacbell.net/smills14/french%20rev%20storybooks.htm

Directions for creating a digital storybook
http://mstandley.com/powerful_ways_tell_stories.pdf

http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/sbuikema/490TER/buikema_proposal_1.htm

Creating Digital Math and Science Stories

Teaches Graphic Arts. His students work on Digital Storybooks - combining digital
illustrations, web design, writing, and animation. I didn’t see a completed storybook, but
there are some interesting student projects such as descriptive lettering, logo design,
and animation. I though the morphing was interesting. Check out the site if you have
time: http://www.leeschools.net/schools/dpm/DEMO/index_files/page0002.htm

DIGITAL PUBLISHING

pew report on Ebooks, summary of key findings

http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/

• Apple in Education (including Books, iBooks Author, iTunes U)

• Lit2Go - University of South Florida

• Project Gutenberg (33,000 free ePub books)

• iRead Escondido USD CA, iAchieve Creighton SD AZ

• Canby OR iPod & iPad User Group, Canby OR Achievement Scores

• Special Education Apps: for iPod touch in iTunes or for iPad in iTunes

• Apps for: Teachers; Learning Physics; Learning Geography; Learning to Read;

Learning Life Science; Learning Math; Learning to Write (iPod); Learning to Write (iPad)

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (free in iTunes U)

• App Store Volume Purchase Program (VPP), Creating ePub files with iWork Pages

• iTunes U - Beyond Campus - Cassiopeia Project: Space Course

• PollEverywhere.com - free mobile device student polling

• iPads for Learning (Government sponsored resource - Victoria, Australia)

• Apps for Health and Fitness

• TCEA Recommended iPad apps (Texas Computer Education Association google docs)

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvFbfb1mWoNwdGlweWtkZkFRS1gzUDMtTUtoTEw0MkE#gid=0

Web Links to Epublishing Resources and Programs to match the list above.

http://www.apple.com/education/

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

http://www.gutenberg.org/

https://sites.google.com/a/eusd.org/eusd-iread/

http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/ipodusergroup/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/institution/national-archives-and-records/id438983411

http://www.apple.com/education/volume-purchase-program/

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

http://greatist.com/health/best-health-and-fitness-apps/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvFbfb1mWoNwdGlweWtkZkFRS1gzUDMtTUtoTEw0MkE#gid=0

Egov Google Earth Applications?

Google Earth Webinar
https://admin.acrobat.com/_a769301336/p67907198/ Cecila Einhorn

<http://earth.google.com/tour/>

Google Earth Teaching Resources http://gelessons.com/lessons/
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/03/dig_a_hole_through_g.html
http://googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com http://googlelittrips.com http://geogreetings.com , flyto places layers, streetviews

Classroom Google Earth wiki
http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com/

And now there’s Google Sky!
Check it out at: http://www.google.com/sky/

www.communitywalk.com google mashups

A walk around SF http://www.communitywalk.com/map/3402

CODING APPS Without Coding:

Google’s do it yourself app inventor:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/technology/12google.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

library apps article http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/29/national/a033239D82.DTL

App Building, the Do-It-Yourself Way Non-Techie Entrepreneurs, Seeing Specific Needs, Find Outside Resources to Help Them Create Software

http://benton.org/node/147204

Appsme, AppMakr or Flow.net, allow just about any user to build simple apps by adding text, images and other features into a ready-made template

www.code.org

Codeforamerica.com

CODENOW

Code School is all about not just learning but creation.. Students have a chance to learn and then implement their knowledge throughout the course, so that upon completion the student not only has a workable knowledge of the material, but also the tools to apply it in the real world.

Udacity emphasizes mastery learning to make sure that students have multiple attempts to demonstrate their new knowledge and only move on when they have completely mastered a subject.

http://www.codeschool.com/ Enroll now to play; learn by doing

Future of apps and the web

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Apps-and-Web.aspx

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/business/as-boom-lures-app-creators-tough-part-is-making-a-living.html?emc=na

http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0 learn to code

article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/branson-backs-codecademy-with-kleiner-for-online-teaching.html

iPhone App Community and Templates Launched by http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=60114724&msgid=367649&act=Z3Q2&c=599945&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fibuildapp.com%2F

iBuildApp.com

camera fun (you know you love IncrediBooth and Hipstamatic),

3. Egov apps

Codenow, codeforamerica, Mozilla and others

Apps articles,

87% of US magazine and newspaper publishers have an iPad app, survey says

http://benton.org/node/141874

US mobile advertising to triple this year fueled by Facebook, Google

http://benton.org/node/141900

apps creation clearinghouse directories

appempire

http://appempirelive.com/newyeartipsfromtheappstore.html

kindle publishing info

Ibuildapp.com 5 minute apps

Magcast video (fees for more content)

Gomobilesolutions

Kindle Epublishing webinar/video

EGOV

Egov websites: www.govtech.org www.governing.org

Codeacademy.com codenow.com Mozilla’s/knight partnership

Apps for community engagement and more...from the Knight foundation suggest a trend.

http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2012/10/29/apps-engagement-and-innovation/

Here is a Code for America page with Egov apps; 657 apps in 271 cities.

http://commons.codeforamerica.org/

I.E. Let's find out what's working, where.

The CfA Commons is a marketplace for open innovation in government, tracking 657 apps in 271 cities.

Govtech.com, egov.com egovstrategies.com

· eGov - Android Apps on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com...egov...

9 votes - Free - Android

Feb 15, 2012 – The Fabasoft eGov-Suite gives you access to business documents within public service organizations on your Android smartphone and tablet, ...

· Hawaii eGov Apps | Data for Hawaii | data.hawaii.gov

https://data.hawaii.gov/Government...eGov-Apps/y552-5npg

Apr 30, 2012 – Developers can create applications that use the SODA APIs to visualize and “mash-up” Socrata datasets in new and exciting ways. Create an ...

Codeforamerica.org Local Coders Help Improve Government Functions

There’s a new breed of software developer helping local government.http://www.governing.com/topics/technology/local-coders-help-improve-government-functions.html

url for Soros institute url for Soros institute http://ineteconomics.org/about-the-institute

For more information on the

Entrepreneurial Mentor Corps program please visit http://www.sba.gov/startupamerica.

Check out SBA's new online learning center for entrepreneurs.

TEACHING GAME AUTHORING

game design
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-game-design-video

game authoring

icivics.org

citizenship games

Decentralizing education: how startups are dismantling the university

Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

MOOCs From Elite Colleges Transform Online Higher Education

Related:

Digital Storytelling - Mark Standley

PUBLICATIONS - Brett Dillingham / Storyteller

App Building, the Do-It-Yourself Way Non-Techie Entrepreneurs, Seeing Specific Needs, Find Outside Resources to Help Them Create Software

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

87% of US magazine and newspaper publishers have an iPad app, survey says

US mobile advertising to triple this year fueled by Facebook, Google

· Teachers Learn Video Game Design at CU-Boulder Summer ...

· Alexander Repenning's Home Page

· AgentSheets

· Open Platforms | 2013 National STEM Video Game Challenge

· STEM: Gaming In Education