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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are ending Term 1, which for our school has seen a rollout of iPads across both campuses from Years 5-11 (About 2800 devices). It has had less teething issues that you would have thought, moreso with the staff coming to terms with them than our tech-savvy students.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The main issue for staff has been content creation. We still have dual devices so I have recently tried using Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (After getting ridiculously frustrated with the limitations of the app “Creative Book Builder” as it doesn’t let you control enough settings!). I spent a lot of time researching, looking for materials online and trial and error and have attached one that I made on mobilEcho, which our school is using for network access. I haven’t released it to staff yet (Note to self: Change the front cover to avoid copyright issues before giving it to staff!) but would love some feedback on what should and should not be included, and what more you think needs to be done.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I did have videos added, however when I do a final edit (Using Sigil) of the XHTML (As InDesign doesn’t add in line breaks or anything and it ends up all cluttered) it removes all of the videos as they aren’t actually part of the ePub standard (Videos only work in the modified ePub standard that iBooks uses). I decided that formatting was more important that videos, so although I have a version with videos, I preferred to make the videos in mp4 format (So they could easily be viewed on the iPad even without AVPlayerHD) and store them separately.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In another question – For those schools that have moved to iPads and other tablet devices, what do you use for content creation?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers and have a good break!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Trav<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>P.S. When creating the documents and exporting to ePub, rather than port them to the iPad every time to see how they look, I have downloaded “Adobe Digital Editions” which is free and a decent epub viewer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:#17366B;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Travis Parker</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:#17366B;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Head of ICT and E-Learning</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:#17366B;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Beaconhills College</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#251B8A;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>(</span><span style='color:#17366B;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> 1300 002 225 ext 3016</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:#17366B;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>or Direct Dial (03) 5945 3016</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><img width=679 height=200 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD0E85.92F7B940"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>