Directly translated this means compute book – meaning an eBook  - as you might have already guessed. Seven of these are electronic versions of books written by Maidhc Dainín Ó Sé ( Mike O Shay ), a writer and musician who was born in the West Kerry Gaeltacht (an all Irish speaking region) in the 1940s and is now telling us his tales via eBooks. There’s definitely a big difference between huddling around the wireless to catch the all–Ireland and reading about the same things in an eBook many decades later! In Scotland eBooks are used to safeguard a rich heritage. MORE >>

One of the most common scenarios for rapid elearning developers is to take an existing PowerPoint presentation and convert it to an “elearning course.&# Cathy Moore’s Dump the Drone presentation is a good example of the type of presentation a client might ask you to convert and put online. The idea here is not to convert Cathy’s slides verbatim. When you convert those into elearning courses, you can rework some of the content by creating groups and a branched menu. If you can, convert some of your text to graphics. Get creative. MORE >>

We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions , but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets. One of the best tools, if you are already using Articulate, to convert your existing (Articulate based) courses to run on iPads, other tablets and mobile devices. It’s free! MORE >>

as an ebook. Or you can use tools like Calibre to convert and deploy eBooks. As an ebook. Takes advantages of eBook functionality on the device - eg. Difficult to convert existing materials if they are not already well structured (with semantic tags or styles). I've been looking at options for creating and delivering content to mobile devices (phones, tablets etc). There are a number of possibilities: via a website, formatted for mobile viewing. as a downloadable pdf. as a native app. There are plus and minus points for each of the options. Advantages. MORE >>

Once you had your ePub, you needed to use a few different processes to both validate the ePub (ePub's will not be accepted by most vendors, such as the Apple iBookstore, unless the ePubs validate) and convert it to the mobi format for use on the Amazon Kindle. To convert to the mobi format, I used a converter found in  Calibre , a free ePub reader. If you visit the Single Source Layouts pod, you'll notice that there is an eBook layout by default.   Double-click the eBook layout and the eBook Settings will open. Thanks. MORE >>