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Storyboard for Multimedia Presentation

Storyboard for Multimedia Presentation. The Electronic Textbook. NEED. Regular print textbooks were lacking in the following: Adaptation of materials to suit to students interests and abilities

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Storyboard for Multimedia Presentation

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  1. Storyboard for Multimedia Presentation The Electronic Textbook

  2. NEED Regular print textbooks were lacking in the following: • Adaptation of materials to suit to students interests and abilities • Interactive functions, and the ability to provide the learner with a combination of textbooks, reference books, workbooks, dictionaries and multimedia contents such as video clips, animations, and virtual reality, both at school and at home. • Easy, quick revision and correction in keeping with current findings.

  3. RESEARCH • Literature is undecisive as to its originator, • May have started in the early 60’s by Doug Englebard at Stanford University

  4. Timeline of the E Textbook • 1971 – Michael Hart started the Project Gutenberg with the goal of keeping track of books in physical libraries. The first digital book produced was the Declaration of Independence. • 1985 –  Robert Stein founded the Voyager Company, which produced eBooks and made them available in CD-ROMs • 1997 – Joseph Jacobson founded eInk Corp. This company improved on the e-paper concept developed by Xerox in the 1970s. • 1993 –The very first eBook reader software was developed by Z.K. Zapata. It was called Digital Book V.1. • 1998 – Two ebook readers were launched, the Rocket eBook and Softbook. • 2000- VitalSource Technologies introduced a fully digitized curriculum product to several US dental schools • 2005- Elsevier Health Science provided students with both print and digital copies of textbooks .

  5. Timeline of the E Textbook (cont’d) • 2006 — Sony launched their eBook reader called Sony Reader.  It used the eInk screen display. It was soon followed by a host of other eInk book readers such as iRex, BeBook, and Amazon Kindle • 2007 – Course smart – a cooperative effort by major textbook publishers to put textbooks in digital form was established • April 2010 Apple released the first iPad with • July 2010 - digital textbook initiative in California. Source Chesser, W. D. (2011). Chapter 5: The E-textbook Revolution. Library Technology Reports, 47(8), 28-40

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