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This BYOD session covered how to create an ebook with your students. Use this website for some materials and examples: www.k12opened.com/ISTE2012 and Http://content.k12.opened.com How to create an ebook with your class: 1. Create a google doc for them to edit 2. Save the google doc as a word document A. Go to download as a word doc 3. Use word save as feature to save the doc as HTML A. Save as a "web page filtered" 4. Use the program calibre to turn it into an ebook in a variety of formats A. Calibre works best if you input the data as HTML, not PDF B. Go to "add a book", find HTML doc, go to "edit meta deta" for title/info, go to "convert book" and chose output format (mobi for kindle or ePub) C. Can email the file to your kindle D. You can create table of contents and chapters with Calibre The easiest way to distribute the book with the class would be to put the file on the school website for the kids to download. To read on a desktop you need an ePub reader, or Mozilla extension. For more directions, look under "help" of the Opened ISTE 2012 webpage.