1. Creating a Lab ManualAdding and formatting text from Microsoft Word| 00:00 | You can of course create a new project
in iBooks Author from scratch, writing
| | 00:04 | text and placing images into new
blank pages. But if you already have the
| | 00:08 | content for your project in another
application, like Microsoft Word, it's great
| | 00:13 | that you can use a Word file
as the basis for your project.
| | 00:16 | Let's see how it's done.
| | 00:18 | Here I have most of the text for my lab
in Microsoft Word. So I have the title,
| | 00:22 | I have an overview, my list of materials,
some safety information, the procedure steps,
| | 00:30 | a quiz, and some vocabulary terms.
| | 00:33 | Note that I haven't used any styles
other than the default normal style in
| | 00:37 | this Word document.
| | 00:39 | Now let's switch over to iBooks Author.
| | 00:41 | I'll choose File > New from Template
Chooser and for our project, I'm going to
| | 00:46 | select from the Portrait Only options,
and I'm going to select Modern Basic.
| | 00:50 | I'll double-click to open it, and the
first thing I'll do is work on the cover.
| | 00:54 | On the left side of the window, I'll click on
the book title to see my cover, and right now
| | 00:59 | it just has a placeholder photo and some text.
| | 01:01 | To replace the placeholder text, I'm
just going to click on it and type in my
| | 01:05 | real title: Lab Manual.
| | 01:08 | I don't need the text above the title,
so I'll click on it once and press
| | 01:12 | Delete to get rid of it.
| | 01:13 | To replace the placeholder image of the
turtle, I'll switch to the Finder, go to
| | 01:18 | my Exercise Files folder, and in the
Adding Text folder, you'll find a file
| | 01:23 | called lab_cover.jpeg.
| | 01:25 | Just drag and drop that
right on top of the turtle image.
| | 01:28 | The next thing I need to do is to choose the
right layouts for the pages of my lab manual.
| | 01:33 | Right now, on the left side I can see I
have three pages in this document and
| | 01:37 | I can see what they're based on if I click
on the little triangles next to the pages.
| | 01:41 | So the first one is based on the chapter
photo layout, the second one is section
| | 01:45 | photo, and the third one
is the default page layout.
| | 01:50 | These are not what I want, so the first
thing I'll do is delete all the pages.
| | 01:54 | I'll click on the chapter page
and press Delete on my keyboard.
| | 01:58 | From the Insert menu, I'll choose
Chapter from Pages or Word document.
| | 02:01 | I'll go to the exercise files, the Adding
Text folder, and select my Word document.
| | 02:08 | I'll click Insert, and now
I have to choose a layout.
| | 02:11 | I'll scroll down and choose Chapter
Photo & Text, and since I didn't use any
| | 02:17 | styles other than Normal in Microsoft
Word, I'm going to Deselect preserved
| | 02:21 | document paragraph styles, and then click Choose.
| | 02:26 | I'll zoom out a little so
I can see the whole page.
| | 02:28 | Now, I can check that my first page is
using Chapter Photo & Text, my second page
| | 02:36 | is using the Default layout, with two columns.
| | 02:39 | Actually, I only want one column now, so
I'll choose the 1 Column layout to switch it.
| | 02:43 | I'm not going to worry about the third
page right now because I know that I only
| | 02:48 | want a two-page lab when I'm done
formatting this. But if I had to, I could pick
| | 02:52 | a different layout here for this page as well.
| | 02:55 | Now, it's time to start formatting the text.
| | 02:57 | I'll go back to the first page
and I'll start with the title.
| | 03:01 | I'll take off the -1 that iBooks Author
added. And below the image, I'll delete
| | 03:07 | the text that I don't need, like these headings.
| | 03:09 | I'll just drag over them to
select them and press Delete.
| | 03:12 | Then I'll triple-click to select the
paragraph of Lab Overview text, cut it, and
| | 03:20 | paste it above the photo.
| | 03:23 | Note how the text takes on the
formatting that was present in the text box.
| | 03:27 | I also have overset text, as indicated
by this plus sign at the bottom of the
| | 03:31 | text box, but that's just because of
the paragraph return at the end, which
| | 03:35 | I can simply delete.
| | 03:36 | I'll scroll back down and work
on the Materials list and more.
| | 03:40 | I'll delete the paragraph before the word
Materials, and for the text box under the photo,
| | 03:45 | I actually want three columns of text
from my Materials list and the heading.
| | 03:49 | So with my cursor in the textbox,
I'll open the Layout Inspector, which is the
| | 03:54 | second tab over in the Inspector, and
change the number of Columns from 2 to 3.
| | 04:01 | For the heading Materials, I'll apply
the Heading 1 paragraph style from the
| | 04:05 | Format bar. And it looks like there
are some overrides to the paragraph style
| | 04:12 | definition, so I'll open my paragraph
styles by clicking on the blue button and
| | 04:19 | then click on the red triangle
and choose Revert to Define Style.
| | 04:23 | Then I want the Materials heading to
be all by itself in the first column, so
| | 04:28 | I'll insert a column break after the heading.
| | 04:30 | I'll place my cursor right before the
first item in the Materials list, and I'll
| | 04:34 | choose Insert > Column Break.
| | 04:37 | For now, we'll leave the actual
Materials list styled the way it is.
| | 04:41 | In another movie, we'll look at options to
format the Materials list with check marks.
| | 04:46 | Right now, we'll just insert another
column break at the end of the list to
| | 04:49 | isolate it in this textbox. Delete any
extra paragraphs, and now we'll work on
| | 04:56 | this paragraph, Safety First.
| | 04:58 | I'll triple-click to select it, and
then I'll hold the Command key on my
| | 05:01 | keyboard, which allows me to add text that I
have selected from anywhere else in the document.
| | 05:07 | I'll triple-click to add the
Procedure heading to my selection.
| | 05:09 | Then, from my paragraph styles, I'll
select Heading 1 and Revert to Defined Style.
| | 05:18 | The last thing that I'll do now is
delete the extra paragraph returns. Though it
| | 05:22 | might be tempting to use them to add
space between paragraphs, you can have a
| | 05:26 | lot more control and a better final
appearance if you use the first tab in the
| | 05:30 | Text Inspector to set your spacing.
| | 05:32 | Here, you can set line spacing, spacing
before and after a paragraph, and margins.
| | 05:38 | To see all those paragraph returns, I
need to show my invisibles, so I'll choose
| | 05:42 | View > Show Invisibles and then
I'll just delete them. That's better.
| | 05:53 | In this movie, we created a new project in
iBooks Author using a portrait-only template.
| | 05:58 | We replaced the default image and text
on the cover, we added pages with content
| | 06:03 | from our Word document, and
we started to format our text.
| | 06:06 | In the next movie, we'll see how to
format the Materials list, as well as the
| | 06:10 | numbered steps of the procedure.
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| Creating lists| 00:00 | iBooks Author allows you to create and
format both ordered and unordered lists
| | 00:05 | with just a few clicks.
| | 00:06 | In our science lab project, we need to
make two kinds of lists: a bulleted list
| | 00:11 | for lab materials and a
numbered list for the procedures steps.
| | 00:15 | So, let's get started.
| | 00:16 | Here's our science lab manual,
which is a work in progress.
| | 00:19 | So far, we've created the cover and
brought in text from Microsoft Word and
| | 00:23 | formatted some of it.
| | 00:25 | Let's go ahead and save now. I'll call this
Lab Manual, and I'll leave it on the desktop.
| | 00:30 | Click Save. And the next thing I want to
do is go down to the bottom of the first
| | 00:35 | page and work on my Materials list.
| | 00:38 | I'll select all the paragraphs
containing the materials and look at my
| | 00:41 | Paragraph Styles panel.
| | 00:43 | Right now they have styled this Body,
with some modifications to the formatting.
| | 00:47 | Let's remove those modifications by
clicking on the red triangle and choosing
| | 00:51 | Revert To Defined Style.
| | 00:53 | Now, they are just plain body text.
And to make this into a list, I go down to
| | 00:58 | the bottom of my Styles panel, look at
my List Styles--and if there not showing,
| | 01:02 | you can press this button to
show or hide your list styles.
| | 01:06 | Now, this is an unordered list for the
Materials, so I want Bullets not Numbering.
| | 01:11 | I'll choose Bullet and I
get the default bullets.
| | 01:15 | This is a little plain for my
taste, so to adjust the formatting,
| | 01:18 | I'll go to the Text
Inspector and click on the List tab.
| | 01:22 | In the Bullets and Numbering
options, there's a pop-up menu.
| | 01:25 | In it I can see that I currently have
Text Bullets selected, but I can also
| | 01:29 | choose Image Bullets, load a
Custom Image, or choose Numbers.
| | 01:33 | I can also turn off bullets all together here.
| | 01:36 | So, to spice things up a little bit,
I'll choose Image Bullets and take a look
| | 01:40 | at the images that Apple gives us.
| | 01:42 | We have some 3D effects, some
checkboxes, pushpins, asterisks, some cut-out
| | 01:50 | effects, and more. I kind of like the
black checkbox with the checkmark in it,
| | 01:56 | so I'll select that.
| | 01:58 | I also have options to change the
alignment, moving the bullets up or down and I
| | 02:02 | can decrease or increase the size.
| | 02:05 | I'll increase them because they
look a little small right now.
| | 02:09 | The Size option is affected by this
next option right here: Scale with Text.
| | 02:14 | If I turn it off, the percentage is
relative to the original size of the image
| | 02:18 | used for the bullet.
| | 02:19 | If I leave this on, the
percentage is relative to the text size.
| | 02:23 | I can also adjust the indents
of the bullet and the text here.
| | 02:27 | Let's go to the next page. And that
column break overflowed to the second page,
| | 02:33 | so I need to delete the
character before that and bring it back.
| | 02:36 | Now, we'll work to set up the
numbered list of procedure steps.
| | 02:41 | First, we'll click and drag to select
all the Procedures, go to the Paragraph
| | 02:45 | Styles panel, Revert To Defined Style,
and now I'll apply a list style on top of
| | 02:51 | the paragraphs style.
| | 02:53 | This time I'll choose Numbered
List, and then numbering is applied.
| | 02:57 | And the Text Inspector in the List tab,
I can control the indent level, the
| | 03:02 | numbering style, and whether to continue the
numbering from a previous list or start at 1.
| | 03:09 | I can also control my indents here.
| | 03:11 | Note that I don't have the option to
decimal-align the numbers, so I have more
| | 03:15 | space between the single digits in the text
than I do with the double digits in the text.
| | 03:20 | I also don't have an option to apply a
different style to format the numbers,
| | 03:24 | and I can't select the
numbers either to apply formatting.
| | 03:27 | They take on the
formatting of the paragraph style.
| | 03:30 | If you really want numbers with
different formatting than the rest of the
| | 03:33 | paragraphs, there is a trick you can use.
| | 03:36 | Select a paragraph style that has
the formatting you want to apply to the
| | 03:39 | numbers, then apply a
character style to the text.
| | 03:43 | So, for example if I wanted bold
numbers and plain text, I could select all
| | 03:47 | the text for the list like I have right now,
and apply a paragraph style with bold formatting.
| | 03:53 | Right now I don't have a paragraph
style that applies bold formatting in this
| | 03:56 | document, so I'll have create one.
| | 03:59 | I'll just use the Format bar to apply a bold.
| | 04:02 | I'll go to the Paragraph Styles and
choose Create Paragraph Style From Selection.
| | 04:06 | And I'll just call it Bold.
| | 04:09 | Now, I can remove the bold formatting,
| | 04:13 | create a character style
that's just plain text.
| | 04:18 | I'll reapply the Bold and
then apply the Plain Style.
| | 04:22 | So, now I have bold numbers and plain text.
| | 04:27 | Now, this is definitely a workaround
and I probably wouldn't use it often, but
| | 04:32 | if you absolutely have to have the
numbers in the list formatted differently
| | 04:35 | than the text, this process will
get you the look that you want.
| | 04:39 | There's one more thing I'd like to do
with this numbered list, and that is to
| | 04:42 | decimal-align the numbers, so I have
consistent space between the number and the text.
| | 04:47 | For that I need to format the
single-digit number paragraphs differently than
| | 04:50 | the double-digit paragraphs.
| | 04:52 | First, I'll select the paragraphs for
the numbers 1 through 9 and then in the
| | 04:56 | Text Inspector, in the List tab, I'm
going to set the Number Indent to 30.
| | 05:03 | That sets the left edge of the numbers 30
points from the left edge of the text box.
| | 05:07 | But what I'm really interested in
here is the position of the decimal.
| | 05:11 | That's what I'm going to align on.
| | 05:12 | Next, I'm going to decrease the text
indent to 25 points to reduce the space
| | 05:17 | between the decimal and the text,
because it was a bit too large for my taste.
| | 05:21 | Now, let's set the indents
for the double-digit numbers.
| | 05:24 | Here, I need a smaller-number
indent to make all the decimals aligned.
| | 05:29 | It's going to be trial and error when
you do this, but in this case, I like a
| | 05:32 | number indent of 20 points.
| | 05:34 | Now, my numbers are decimal-aligned,
but I need to fix this space between the
| | 05:38 | decimals and the text for
my double-digit numbers.
| | 05:41 | Since I'm indenting the whole
paragraph 10 points less than the single-
| | 05:44 | digit paragraphs, I need to compensate for
that and add 10 more points to my text indent.
| | 05:49 | My single-digit text indent was 25
points, so this one will be 35 points.
| | 05:56 | And now I have a list that's decimal-aligned.
| | 05:59 | In this movie, we saw how to manage both
bulleted and numbered List, choosing our
| | 06:03 | formatting and even using some
workarounds to get numbered lists with decimal
| | 06:07 | alignment and numbers with
different formatting from the text.
| | 06:11 | Next up, we'll shift from text to
images, adding a photo to our lab and using
| | 06:16 | iBooks Author's tools to enhance it.
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| Adding photos and using Adjust Image to improve them| 00:00 | So far we've mainly focused on the text
in our lab manual, bringing it in from
| | 00:04 | Word and formatting it.
| | 00:06 | Now we'll turn our attention to
working with photos: adding them and
| | 00:09 | improving there appearance.
| | 00:11 | At this point our lab is coming along well.
| | 00:13 | We've got most of the text formatted.
| | 00:15 | Now it's time to start adding images,
icons, and interactive elements.
| | 00:20 | We've still got this placeholder image
of the sea turtle that came in with the
| | 00:23 | template that we used for our project.
| | 00:25 | Since this is a lab on soil observation, it
doesn't make too much sense to keep this image.
| | 00:30 | So let's switch over to the Finder
and then the exercise files folder,
| | 00:34 | you'll see a file called soil.jpg.
Drag that right on top of the turtle
| | 00:38 | image to replace it.
| | 00:40 | If I click on the image, I have
controls where I can scale the image, and I can
| | 00:46 | click on Edit Mask to drag around and
show or hide different parts of the image.
| | 00:52 | I can also adjust the colors and contrast
in the image right inside iBooks Author.
| | 00:57 | For that, I'll click on the button in
the Format bar with the sliders, which
| | 01:01 | opens the Adjust Image tools.
| | 01:03 | Here I have tools to work on several
aspects of the image quality, but I do need
| | 01:07 | to keep my expectations reasonable.
| | 01:09 | These tools can make a good image
look even better, but they are probably
| | 01:13 | not going to make a bad image--one that's
poorly exposed or out of focused--look good.
| | 01:18 | In this case, I just want to add a
little more contrast and color to my image of
| | 01:22 | the soil, so it doesn't just
look like a big area of brown.
| | 01:26 | The Brightness slider allows you to move
everything towards white or black. With
| | 01:30 | the Contrast slider you can increase
the separation between light and dark
| | 01:34 | colors or blend them all
together towards a middle tone.
| | 01:36 | With Sharpness, you can increase the
clarity of details or blur an image.
| | 01:41 | And with the Exposure controls, you
can brighten or darken the entire image.
| | 01:46 | Those are the Contrast controls;
you also have Color controls.
| | 01:50 | I can drag the slider to increase the
saturation, drag it all the way to the
| | 01:54 | left to make it completely desaturated
in black and white, or all the way to the
| | 01:58 | right to completely saturate the colors.
| | 02:01 | With the Temperature and Tint controls,
I can correct a small color cast or I
| | 02:06 | can add one if I like.
| | 02:07 | Or I can drag the sliders all
the way to colorize an image.
| | 02:11 | The Temperature slider goes from blue on
the left to orange on the right, and the
| | 02:15 | Tint slider goes from magenta on
the left to green on the right.
| | 02:19 | So, if I wanted to colorize something
pure red, I'd drag the Temperature slider
| | 02:23 | all the way to the right and the Tint slider
all the way to the left. I will reset them.
| | 02:31 | The Level sliders allow me to
lighten or darken the image.
| | 02:34 | The graph here is of all the pixels
in the image, in red, green, and blue.
| | 02:38 | When I drag the black slider,
everything in the graph to the left of it
| | 02:41 | becomes pure black.
| | 02:46 | When I drag the white slider,
everything to the right of it becomes pure white.
| | 02:52 | There's also an Enhanced button at the
bottom-left, and you can click that to see
| | 02:56 | iBooks Author can figure out how to
make your image look better on its own.
| | 03:00 | Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.
| | 03:02 | If it doesn't, you can always
click Reset Image and start again.
| | 03:06 | For my soil image, I don't want
to make any huge changes here.
| | 03:10 | I'll increase the Saturation a bit,
and I'll lighten things up by moving
| | 03:15 | the Exposure slider up.
| | 03:19 | This sharpness is way too much, so I'm
going to pull that back down, and I might
| | 03:23 | move the Temperature and Tint sliders a
little bit, just to adjust the color.
| | 03:27 | There, that looks pretty good.
| | 03:29 | In this movie we saw how to add an
image to our project, change its size and
| | 03:33 | cropping, and use the Adjust Image
sliders to work on the color and contrast
| | 03:37 | of the image.
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| Adding inline images (safety icons)| 00:00 | Our Lab Manual project is taking shape,
| | 00:02 | but we haven't yet added much
in the way of interactivity.
| | 00:05 | We'll begin doing that in this movie,
where we'll add Safety Alert icons and make
| | 00:09 | them interactive, so the user can
tap them to reveal more information.
| | 00:14 | On the second page of our project,
up at the top, we have a section called
| | 00:17 | Safety First, where we have safety
information that goes with this lab.
| | 00:21 | There are two items telling students to
take care with glass slides and to wash
| | 00:25 | up after handling the soil.
| | 00:27 | Now we could just format the text and
leave it as is, but instead let's take
| | 00:31 | advantage of the interactivity that
iBooks Author lets us build into our
| | 00:35 | projects and make this
safety information more engaging.
| | 00:38 | In the toolbar, go to the
Widgets menu and choose Pop-Over.
| | 00:43 | This widget is composed of two parts:
the placeholder at the bottom where we can
| | 00:48 | add an image and this item that looks
like a speech bubble at the top, which
| | 00:52 | will appear when the
image is tapped on the iPad.
| | 00:55 | Now let's add an image to the Pop-Over.
| | 00:57 | I'll switch to the Finder, and in the
Exercise Files folder, there are two
| | 01:02 | icons: glass_icon.png and wash_icon.png.
| | 01:06 | We'll start with glass one. I'll drag and
drop it in, switch back to iBooks Author.
| | 01:12 | This is too large right now, so I'll
click and drag one of the corners, and
| | 01:16 | keep an eye on the width and height displays,
until it's about 80 pts, just like that.
| | 01:22 | I'll move it into place.
| | 01:24 | Now I need to add the text to the Pop-Over.
| | 01:27 | First I'll create the
formatting I want by selecting the text.
| | 01:30 | I'll click the paragraph with
breakable materials and from my Paragraph
| | 01:34 | Styles panel, I can see it's set to
Body, but it has some modifications. So I
| | 01:39 | need to show my Paragraph Styles panel,
click on the red triangle, and select
| | 01:46 | Revert To Defined Style.
| | 01:50 | I'll do the same for the next paragraph.
| | 01:51 | Now this is better, but it's a little too
large to fit in the Pop up, so for both
| | 01:58 | of these paragraphs, I'm going to select
them and take the point size down to 14
| | 02:02 | pts in the Format bar.
| | 02:05 | I'll zoom in a little bit, and to
set off the headings, I'll apply an
| | 02:10 | Emphasis character style.
| | 02:11 | Then I'll cut the text,
double-click the icon, and paste in the text.
| | 02:23 | I'll resize the Pop-Over so it just
fits the text. And to make the Pop-Over
| | 02:28 | standout from the rest of the page
better, let's change the fill color.
| | 02:32 | In the Graphic Inspector, I'll select
the color fill and change it to a yellow
| | 02:37 | color, which seems
appropriate for a safety icon.
| | 02:40 | Now that we've formatted this Pop-
Over just the way we want it, I'm going to
| | 02:44 | duplicate it and use it as a basis for
the other Pop-Over. I'll hold down Option
| | 02:49 | and Shift on my keyboard, then click and drag.
| | 02:53 | The Option key makes the duplicate and
the Shift key constrains the position so
| | 02:57 | the new Pop-Over stays in
alignment with the original.
| | 03:00 | Let's select and cut the text,
double-click, select the text, and paste over it.
| | 03:07 | Now I'll replace the icon, I'll
switch to the Finder, and drag in
| | 03:11 | the handwashing icon.
| | 03:14 | Next, I need to move the text for the
procedure down so it's not sitting next
| | 03:18 | to the safety Pop-Overs.
| | 03:20 | I could just press the Return key a
bunch of times, but if I ever edit this lab
| | 03:24 | and I don't need that space, then I'll
have to delete those returns, so there's
| | 03:28 | a better way to go.
| | 03:29 | If there are any stray returns here,
delete them, then select one of the icons,
| | 03:34 | go to the Wrap Inspector, select
Object causes wrap, and then click the last
| | 03:39 | button to make the text wrap above and
below the object, so no text can sit on
| | 03:44 | the same line as these icons.
| | 03:46 | Finally, let's double-click and
preview these icons. In this video,
| | 03:51 | we started to add some custom
interactivity to our lab by creating Pop-Overs for
| | 03:56 | our safety information.
| | 03:57 | Next, we'll add some interactivity to
our Materials list by creating glossary
| | 04:01 | items for terms our
students might be unfamiliar with.
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| Adding vocabulary items| 00:00 | In the last movie we added
interactive pop-over widgets to make the safety
| | 00:04 | information in our lab a little more engaging.
| | 00:07 | Now, we'll use iBooks Author's
Glossary features to do the same for
| | 00:11 | some vocabulary items.
| | 00:13 | At the bottom of the first page of our
lab project is the Materials list, which
| | 00:17 | we created using a Bulleted List style
on top of a Body Paragraph Style, and
| | 00:22 | using the Layout Inspector
to create a 3-column textbox.
| | 00:25 | At the very end of the lab, I have
two vocabulary terms that describe items
| | 00:30 | in the Materials list.
| | 00:31 | Instead of having these terms by
themselves at the end of the lab, it would be
| | 00:35 | much better to have these definitions
set up so students can tap each item
| | 00:39 | in the Materials list and
see the text--so let's do that.
| | 00:43 | First, I'll delete the Vocabulary
heading that came in with my text from
| | 00:46 | Microsoft Word. Then I'll select
both Vocabulary terms and remove the
| | 00:50 | modifications so they are formatted
with just the Body Paragraph style, and
| | 00:56 | I'll add an Emphasis
Character Style to the terms.
| | 00:58 | Now, I'll cut the definition for
immersion oils and navigate to my Materials list.
| | 01:08 | I'll select the text. And I could go up
to the Glossary bar and click Glossary to
| | 01:13 | add the item, but here's a shortcut.
| | 01:16 | You can right click or Ctrl+Click and
choose Create Glossary Term from Selection
| | 01:21 | right at your cursor.
| | 01:22 | I'll click the term and
jump right to the glossary.
| | 01:25 | I'll select the definition text and paste.
| | 01:30 | I'll scroll down and use the Link to
jump right back to my Materials list.
| | 01:36 | With it selected, I'll also use the
Format bar to add an underline, just to make
| | 01:40 | it really obvious that this is a clickable link.
| | 01:43 | Now, let's repeat the process for cover slip.
| | 01:46 | I'll go to the end of the document,
grab the definition, cut it,
| | 01:52 | go back to my Materials list, double-click,
right-click or Ctrl+Click,
| | 01:59 | create the glossary term,
click to jump to the glossary,
| | 02:03 | click to select the definition, and paste.
| | 02:06 | Then I can scroll down and jump back to
my Materials list and add the underline.
| | 02:14 | Now, let's preview on the
iPad to see how this worked.
| | 02:17 | I'll press the Preview button. I'll click OK.
| | 02:22 | Here's our lab, and let's tap on
each Vocabulary term. There we go.
| | 02:32 | Adding tappable vocabulary items with
iBooks Author's glossary features is an
| | 02:36 | easy way to add more
interactivity to any project.
| | 02:39 | In this case, we used it to help
students better understand the materials they
| | 02:43 | were working with right from the start.
| | 02:45 | Next, we'll make some more
tappable text with a sneaky technique
| | 02:49 | involving pop-over widgets.
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| Adding a text pop-up| 00:00 | Earlier in this project, we used the
pop-over widget to add interactivity to the
| | 00:04 | Safety icons in our lab.
| | 00:06 | In this movie, we'll again use the
pop-over widgets, but this time we'll skip
| | 00:10 | the image and create a transparent area
so students can tap on text to see the
| | 00:15 | content of the pop-over.
| | 00:17 | Here in the Procedure section,
I have steps that students will follow
| | 00:20 | to complete the lab.
| | 00:21 | Most of the steps are really
straightforward and require no further explanation,
| | 00:26 | but that's not the case here in step 3.
| | 00:28 | It says, "Slowly place the cover slip at
an angle to cover the soil-water mixture."
| | 00:33 | There are two things that
would make this step clearer.
| | 00:36 | First, I'd like to explain why I want
the students to place the cover slip at an
| | 00:40 | angle and second, I'd like
to show them how to do it.
| | 00:44 | And I'd like to have this information
available by tapping the text in this
| | 00:47 | step, specifically these words "at an angle."
| | 00:50 | Now you could use a Glossary item to
create a pop up, but that didn't feel right
| | 00:55 | here since I just want to make the words
"at an angle" what the student taps on,
| | 00:59 | and those don't really belong in a glossary.
| | 01:01 | So instead, what I'm going to do is use
a pop-over widget, with a little twist.
| | 01:05 | First I'm going to apply some formatting
to the words "at an angle" to make them
| | 01:09 | look like a hyperlink.
| | 01:10 | I'll select them, go to
Character Styles, and choose Hyperlink.
| | 01:16 | Now the text is red and underlined,
but it's not really a hyperlink.
| | 01:20 | It just looks like one.
| | 01:21 | I'll click to deselect the text and
then add the pop-over widget from the
| | 01:25 | Widgets menu. Then I'll add the text
that I want to appear in the pop-up.
| | 01:30 | I saved it in a plain text file that
you can find in the Exercise Files.
| | 01:34 | I'll select it, copy it, and paste
it into the widget. I'll resize.
| | 01:40 | Next I want to add an image
to show the proper technique.
| | 01:44 | Again, I'll switch to the Finder and go
to my Exercise Files. And I have a file
| | 01:49 | called angle.jpg, which is a photo of
the cover slip being placed properly.
| | 01:53 | I'll drag and drop that into the
widget and then adjust, just like that.
| | 01:59 | To make the pop-over stand out a little
bit more from the rest of the page, I'll
| | 02:03 | change the fill color
using the Graphic Inspector.
| | 02:06 | I'll pick a light-blue color.
| | 02:10 | Next, I'll click on the
image placeholder to select it.
| | 02:12 | Now, I really don't want an image here.
| | 02:15 | I want it to look like you're tapping on
the words "at an angle" to open the pop-over.
| | 02:20 | So I need to completely hide
this object and make it invisible.
| | 02:23 | First, I'll go to the Wrap
Inspector and deselect Object causes wrap.
| | 02:28 | That way it won't any text out of the way.
| | 02:30 | Then I'll go to the Metrics
Inspector and deselect Constrain proportions.
| | 02:35 | That way I can resize it and change the
shape so it exactly fits over the text.
| | 02:39 | Then I'll go back to the Graphic
Inspector and reduce the Opacity to 0.
| | 02:46 | I'll drag to move it in place, right
over the words "at an angle." Even though I
| | 02:54 | can't see this anymore, it's still functional.
| | 02:56 | Let's preview the lab and try it out.
| | 02:59 | I'll click Preview and then on the iPad, I'll
tap the text. And there you go: a text pop-over.
| | 03:06 | Sometimes you have to be a little
creative to accomplish the things you want
| | 03:10 | with any application.
| | 03:11 | iBooks Author doesn't allow you to use
text as a trigger to open a pop-over,
| | 03:15 | but in this movie we saw a
workaround, by formatting text to look like a
| | 03:19 | hyperlink and creating and transparent
object overlaid on top of that text to
| | 03:24 | open the pop-over.
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| Adding a drawing widget| 00:00 | So far in our lab project, we've made
good use of a few of the interactive
| | 00:04 | features in iBooks Author,
including the Glossary and Pop-Over widgets.
| | 00:08 | In this movie, we'll take a look at
how to add a widget from a third party
| | 00:12 | service that students can use to
sketch what they see with the microscope and
| | 00:16 | then email their sketch.
| | 00:18 | Here in the Procedure section of our lab,
in step 9, the students are instructed
| | 00:22 | to sketch what they see with the microscope.
| | 00:24 | In the past, they'd just have to sketch
on a piece of paper, but now we have the
| | 00:28 | option of allowing students to sketch
directly on the iPad, which gives the
| | 00:32 | advantages of using a variety of
drawing tools and different colors, plus the
| | 00:36 | ability to erase or step
backward through the drawing process.
| | 00:40 | Also, students can save
and email their sketches.
| | 00:43 | Now, all these sounds great, but if
you look for the Drawing widget up in the
| | 00:46 | iBooks Author Toolbar, you'll be
disappointed, because there is none.
| | 00:50 | This is one kind of interactivity
that you either have to build yourself, if
| | 00:54 | you're an expert in HTML, or you need to
look to an outside service to provide it.
| | 00:59 | In this case, we'll use the service at
bookry.com, formerly known as class widgets.
| | 01:05 | Bookry is one of several websites that
offer widget-creation services for iBooks,
| | 01:09 | and it's what's known as a freemium
service, offering a basic set of widgets for
| | 01:13 | free and additional premium services for a fee.
| | 01:17 | One of the free widgets at bookry.com
is a drawing widget, so let's use the
| | 01:21 | service to create one and add it to our lab.
| | 01:24 | After you create an account at Bookry, you can
use the bookshelf feature here to add a book.
| | 01:29 | A book in this case basically just acts like a
folder to house a collection of your widgets.
| | 01:34 | I'll click on the plus sign to
create a book. I'll call it Lab Manual and
| | 01:41 | click Create. Then I can click Add Widget and
see the list of potential widgets I can add.
| | 01:46 | I'll scroll down until I see the Sketch
widget right here. Now I can set the options.
| | 01:55 | I'll leave the name as Sketchpad.
Under Static settings, I can choose an orientation.
| | 02:02 | Even though my project uses the
portrait orientation, I'm going to stick with
| | 02:05 | the default of landscape here.
| | 02:07 | The drawing tools in Bookry's widget are
on the side, and a landscape orientation
| | 02:12 | leaves a wider drawing
space for students to work in.
| | 02:15 | I'll leave the default cover image,
because I can change that at any time
| | 02:18 | inside iBooks Author.
| | 02:19 | I have the option to add a foreground
image, which I'll skip here, but I'll take
| | 02:25 | advantage of the ability
to add a background image.
| | 02:28 | To mimic the round view of the microscope,
I created a graphic of a white circle
| | 02:33 | in a black background, and I'll
upload that to Bookry now. Lab_Sketch.jpg.
| | 02:38 | I'll give the widget a title: Microscope Sketch.
| | 02:49 | I'll save it and then download it.
| | 02:54 | The Widget Installer thinks I might
want to install this in Dashboard, but I
| | 02:58 | don't, so I'll just click Cancel.
| | 03:03 | Now, I can reveal the widget in the
Finder and drop it into my project.
| | 03:08 | I'll switch back to iBooks Author and
drop it in right here, at question 9.
| | 03:16 | It comes in as an anchored item,
and right now it's anchored to the first
| | 03:21 | paragraph in the textbox.
| | 03:22 | I can click and drag that anchor marker,
and I'll just put it down here at question 9.
| | 03:28 | That way if question 9 ever moves to
another page, the widget will move with it.
| | 03:33 | I'll go to the Inspector, in the
Layout tab, and I'll remove the Title,
| | 03:39 | Caption, and Background.
| | 03:41 | Next, I will replace the default icon
with one that I created to match the other
| | 03:45 | icons in the project.
| | 03:47 | Inside the exercise files, you'll find
sketch_icon.png. Drag and drop that into
| | 03:54 | the widget. Now this is really
large, so let's size it down.
| | 03:59 | I'll click once to select the widget
| | 04:01 | and again to select the icon.
I'll hold the Shift key on my keyboard
| | 04:05 | and click and drag until
this icon is the same size as my other
| | 04:09 | icons--about 80 points.
| | 04:11 | Then I'll click again on
the widget and size it down.
| | 04:17 | Next, I need to make the widget stop
pushing text away, so I'll go to the
| | 04:21 | Inspector, click on Wrap, and
then deselect Object Causes Wrap.
| | 04:27 | I'll move the widget down.
| | 04:30 | I should also provide some more
instruction in step 9 so it's obvious
| | 04:34 | what students should do.
| | 04:35 | So I'll edit the text here to say, "Tap
the icon at right to sketch what you
| | 04:40 | see. When you're finished, email your
sketch," and select the widget and move
| | 04:45 | it over a little bit.
| | 04:46 | I'll just move that anchor marker back
and then add a little bit of space after
| | 04:52 | this paragraph, just to move this text down.
| | 04:56 | So I'll go to the Text Inspector, Text,
After Paragraph spacing, and add a little bit.
| | 05:03 | Now, let's preview and test our drawing widget.
| | 05:16 | To draw, I simply move my finger
around inside the white circle.
| | 05:24 | I can undo and redo, and when I'm done,
I can tap the Share button and email my sketch.
| | 05:32 | In this movie, we saw that there are
third-party tools that you can use for
| | 05:36 | free to enhance your projects with
interactivity that iBooks Author can't
| | 05:40 | provide on its own.
| | 05:42 | In the next movie, we'll use one of
iBooks Author's native widgets to add an
| | 05:46 | interactive quiz to our Lab.
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| Adding an interactive lab quiz| 00:00 | We're nearly done building our lab
project. Just one more element to add: an
| | 00:05 | interactive multiple choice quiz to test
students' knowledge at the end of the Lab.
| | 00:09 | At the end of our lab, we have
the last bit of unformatted text:
| | 00:13 | a very brief quiz composed of two questions.
| | 00:17 | To make these into an interactive
quiz, we'll add a Review widget.
| | 00:21 | A Review widget does allow you to
select from six different question types, but
| | 00:25 | none of them are fill-in-
the blank or short answer.
| | 00:28 | There are variations on
multiple choice and matching.
| | 00:31 | If you need a fill-in-the-blank or
short-answer question, you'll need to create
| | 00:35 | your own widget or use a third-party
service like iBook Widgets, which I
| | 00:39 | demonstrate in the iBooks Author for Teachers:
| | 00:42 | Fundamentals course. But in this case,
we have multiple choice questions, so I
| | 00:45 | can stick with the widgets in iBooks Author.
| | 00:48 | I'll go to the Widget Menu and choose Review.
| | 00:54 | I'll zoom out a little bit. I'll move
my Inspector over. And in the Widget
| | 01:02 | tab of the Inspector, in the Layout,
I'll turn off the Title. Now I'll use the
| | 01:07 | Widget Inspector to work on the quiz questions.
| | 01:10 | I'll cut the text of the first
question and paste it in, and then each of the
| | 01:15 | answer choices, and select the correct answer.
| | 01:20 | Now, I'll add a second question
using the Interaction tab in the Widget
| | 01:24 | Inspector, and repeat the cut-and-paste process.
| | 01:30 | Choice A is the correct answer, so I'll
leave it selected. And just the like the
| | 01:34 | Safety icons in the drawing widget,
I want to quiz to be triggered by students
| | 01:38 | tapping a simple icon, so I'll use the
Interaction tab of the Widget Inspector
| | 01:42 | and click Full-screen Only.
| | 01:44 | This will reduce the widget's initial
appearance to a small image that we can
| | 01:48 | replace with an icon, and when the icon
is tapped, the quiz will be displayed in
| | 01:53 | full-screen mode on the iPad.
| | 01:55 | To replace the default appearance,
I'll switch to the Finder and select my Quiz
| | 02:00 | Icon in the Exercise
Files. I'll drag and drop it in. I'll size
| | 02:07 | it down to match the others, holding the
shift key to constrain the
| | 02:11 | shape and resize the widget itself.
| | 02:15 | In the Layout tab of the
Inspector, I'll turn off the background.
| | 02:19 | Now, I'll delete all these extra
paragraph returns, zoom out some more so I can
| | 02:25 | see both pages, and move
the widget into position.
| | 02:31 | Next, I'll add a sentence of
instructions. I'll replace the title Lab Quiz, and
| | 02:37 | I'll say, "Tap the icon at
right to take the Lab Quiz."
| | 02:41 | I'll change the style to Heading 1, and
use my Paragraph Styles panel to revert
| | 02:55 | to the defined style.
| | 02:56 | I think I want to add a little space
above this paragraph, so I'll go to the Text
| | 03:04 | Inspector, Before Paragraph
spacing, and move it down just a bit.
| | 03:10 | I'll select the Widget, move it a
little closer, and then in the Wrap
| | 03:16 | Inspector, I'll turn of Object Causes Wrap.
And I have a blank page that I need to get rid of,
| | 03:22 | so I'll put my cursor in it and just
press the Delete key to get rid of that
| | 03:26 | last paragraph return.
| | 03:28 | Now, my lab is down to just
two pages. Let's preview,
| | 03:32 | I'll tap the Lab Quiz icon, and the
quiz opens up and I can take the quiz.
| | 03:43 | In this movie, we completed the lab
project by adding a brief interactive quiz
| | 03:48 | with a pair of multiple choice quesitions.
| | 03:50 | Now, all that's left is to share the
project and also see how we can print the
| | 03:54 | project, in case we need a hard copy.
| | 03:57 | In the next movie, we'll look at the
options for sharing a project with students
| | 04:01 | or anyone else with an iPad.
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| Sharing a project| 00:00 | When it comes time to deliver an iBooks
Author project to students, you have some choices.
| | 00:05 | You can publish to the iBookstore or you
can share your project via email or
| | 00:09 | by placing an iBooks file on a server
where students can download it to their iPads.
| | 00:14 | Publishing to the iBookstore, even if
you're giving away your project for free,
| | 00:18 | involves a process with several steps
and a waiting period where Apple decides
| | 00:23 | whether or not to approve
your project for publication.
| | 00:26 | If the goal is just to get your project
into the hands of students quickly, then
| | 00:29 | sharing is the way to go.
| | 00:31 | So let's take a look at
sharing options in iBooks Author.
| | 00:34 | Here is our finished lab manual.
| | 00:36 | I've included all the content I want,
formatted it, added interactivity, and
| | 00:41 | very importantly, I've previewed it on an iPad
to be sure it looks and acts the way I expect.
| | 00:46 | Right here in the toolbar is the Publish button.
| | 00:49 | Clicking that starts the process
of publishing to the iBookstore.
| | 00:52 | We're not going to go that route in
this movie, but if you want to know more
| | 00:55 | about it, you can click the Learn more link to
see an outline of the process. I'll cancel out.
| | 01:02 | Also, to see that process demonstrated,
check out Chris Mattia's iBooks Author
| | 01:07 | Essential Training in the lynda.com library.
| | 01:10 | Instead of using the Publish button,
I'm going to use the Share menu.
| | 01:14 | I can send my project as an email
attachment in three different formats.
| | 01:18 | There's iBooks Author for
Mac, iBooks for iPad, and PDF.
| | 01:24 | Notice that the first choice
says for Mac and not for iPad.
| | 01:28 | This is the option that I'd use if I
were collaborating with someone on a
| | 01:31 | project and they needed to make
edits or add content to the project.
| | 01:36 | The PDF choice is what you'd use if
you wanted to share with someone who didn't
| | 01:40 | have an iPad or who didn't need to
use the interactivity in a project.
| | 01:43 | If you export to PDF, you'll lose
almost all the interactivity in your project.
| | 01:48 | But if you want students to use your
project on the iPad, the middle choice is
| | 01:52 | the one that you want: iBooks for iPad.
| | 01:55 | When they tap the attachment in the mail
application, they can choose to open it in iBooks,
| | 01:59 | so let's see that in action.
| | 02:03 | I'll address the email, give it a
subject, and send it on its way.
| | 02:09 | Over on the iPad, I can tap the email,
tap the link, and tap it again, and
| | 02:16 | select Open in iBooks.
| | 02:25 | And there's our lab.
| | 02:27 | You can test the interactivity in it.
| | 02:28 | Now I'll switch back to iBooks Author
and look at the other choice in the Share
| | 02:33 | menu, which is Export.
| | 02:37 | Here you have three
options: iBooks, PDF, and Text.
| | 02:42 | iBooks is what you'd use if you wanted
to put the file on a server for students
| | 02:45 | to download, and you can
also add a version number here.
| | 02:49 | If you choose PDF, you can set the Image
Quality and Security Options to require
| | 02:56 | a password to open, print, or
copy content from the document.
| | 03:01 | And last, if you just want the plain text
out of the lab, you can export as a text file.
| | 03:07 | In this movie, we saw options for
sharing a finished project like our lab manual.
| | 03:11 | We can share it as either in iBooks
Author file for Mac, iBooks file for
| | 03:16 | iPad, PDF, or plain text, with the added
option of including our files as email attachments.
| | 03:23 | Next, we'll explore one more kind of
output, the kind that involves paper and
| | 03:27 | ink, or toner, as we conclude this
video series with a look at printing our
| | 03:32 | science lab.
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| Printing lab results to include in a notebook| 00:00 | Unless you are truly committed to
going paperless, it's likely that at some
| | 00:04 | point you're going to need to print a
hardcopy of pages from your lab manual.
| | 00:07 | For the most part, this is a
straightforward and painless process, but there is
| | 00:11 | at least one quirk that you should be aware of.
| | 00:14 | So let's take a look at
printing options in iBooks Author.
| | 00:17 | To print an iBooks Author file, you
do what you do in just about any other
| | 00:20 | application: you can choose File > Print
or just press Command+P. This brings up
| | 00:24 | the Print Dialog box.
| | 00:27 | If you don't see the full dialog box,
you're probably seeing this one, in
| | 00:30 | which case click Show Details.
| | 00:33 | There's just one small set of
iBooks Author printing options.
| | 00:36 | First you can print either the
entire book or just the current selection.
| | 00:40 | So if you added many more labs to this
lab manual and only wanted to print one
| | 00:44 | or two, you could select them
first before choosing Print.
| | 00:49 | If you print the entire book, you can
choose to print the cover or not and print
| | 00:53 | the glossary terms or not.
| | 00:55 | If you print the glossary terms, there
are a couple of things to be aware of.
| | 00:59 | First, each glossary term
will be printed on its own page,
| | 01:02 | so if you have a large glossary, you could
find yourself going through a lot of paper.
| | 01:07 | Second, let's take a look in the print
preview on the left when I go to our Glossary page.
| | 01:12 | See on the right hand side how it
looks like the text of the definition
| | 01:15 | is getting cut off?
| | 01:16 | Unfortunately, this is an accurate preview.
| | 01:19 | This really is how it will print out.
| | 01:21 | This problem only affects books that were
created in the portrait-only orientation.
| | 01:25 | If your book has both portrait and
landscape orientations, you won't have this problem.
| | 01:30 | And even if you do have a
portrait-only project, you can fix this.
| | 01:34 | One quick fix you can do right in the
Print dialog box is just to change the
| | 01:38 | orientation of the printout.
| | 01:40 | From the pop-up menu, choose Page
Attributes and switch from Portrait to Landscape.
| | 01:45 | This will give you enough horizontal
space to fit the whole glossary text, but
| | 01:49 | always preview all the pages of your
print job to be sure you're not losing
| | 01:53 | content at the top or
bottom of any of the other pages.
| | 01:57 | You can also solve the problem in iBooks Author.
| | 01:59 | I'll cancel out of the Print
dialog box and go to my glossary.
| | 02:04 | I'll zoom in a little bit more and
click in this paragraph of definition text.
| | 02:11 | I want to see my ruler right now, so I'll
press Command+R, and I can see the right-
| | 02:16 | side margin where this blue triangle is.
| | 02:19 | If I drag that in, to about 540 points,
this will be far enough so the text
| | 02:26 | won't get cut off when I do my printout.
| | 02:28 | I'll press Command+P again
and look at that glossary page.
| | 02:37 | And you could see now the
definition for cover slip is all there.
| | 02:40 | But did you notice the other definition?
| | 02:43 | It's still cut off.
| | 02:44 | We only fixed it for that one term,
so let's cancel out again and try
| | 02:49 | a different method.
| | 02:51 | With my cursor in the definition that I
fixed, I can right-click or Ctrl+Click
| | 02:55 | and choose Create
Paragraph Style from Selection.
| | 02:58 | I'll just call it Definition and click OK.
| | 03:04 | Now I can go to my other Glossary
definitions and apply that style.
| | 03:08 | And the margin goes in and the
text will all fit in the printout.
| | 03:15 | Now, this would still be slightly
annoying to do for a large number of items, but
| | 03:19 | at least it's better than
dragging the margin for each one.
| | 03:22 | Ideally, you'd want to create this
paragraph style and use it at the beginning
| | 03:26 | of your project, so you don't have extra work to
do when you just want to make a quick printout.
| | 03:31 | This concludes our look at creating a
science lab manual in iBooks Author.
| | 03:35 | I hope you enjoyed the movies and
that you find them useful in your work.
| | 03:38 | I'm Mike Rankin. Thanks for watching.
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