{"id":2394,"date":"2014-10-27T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:05:51","slug":"ibook-authors-at-harwood-union-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/ibook-authors-at-harwood-union-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Be your own Hero<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ma7CR50vUss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2398\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ibookauthors-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ibookauthors-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ibookauthors.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Using the free iOS <a href=\"http:\/\/get-puppet.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shadow Puppet<\/a> app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit designed by one of our partner educators, Jonah Ibson, at <a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/tag\/harwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harwood Union Middle School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ibson challenged his students to write their own &#8220;hero&#8217;s journeys&#8221; using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ibooks-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">iBooks Author<\/a> software. By taking ownership of the Hero&#8217;s Journey narrative, students are encouraged to create e-books that place them in the hero&#8217;s role. The resulting e-books will have a chance to be housed in an elementary school library, and read out by librarians to younger students.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these amazing iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School, in Moretown Vermont.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ma7CR50vUss\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<p>Ibson&#8217;s essential questions tackled what it would look like for students to have an authentic audience for their work, so the books will be read at a local elementary school library.<\/p>\n<p>iBooks Author is free e-book publishing software from Apple that allows users to create, edit and publish their own e-books, including such interactive elements as audio, video, comics and quizzes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the amazing other work going on at Harwood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/brian-wagner-on-aurasma-and-the-periodic-table\/\" target=\"_blank\">an augmented reality periodic table<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/essays-rube-goldberg-capturing-scientific-process-ipads\/\" target=\"_blank\">long-form writing about Rube Goldberg machines<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/authentic-cell-biology-with-notability-on-the-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\">personalized cell biology with Notability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/eportfolios\/\" target=\"_blank\">e-portfolios with Evernote<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How would you encourage your students to write their hero&#8217;s journeys?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit designed by one of our partner educators, Jonah Ibson, at Harwood Union Middle School. Ibson challenged his students to write their own &#8220;hero&#8217;s journeys&#8221; using the iBooks Author software. By taking ownership of the Hero&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/ibook-authors-at-harwood-union-middle-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,246,144,171,82],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-harwood","tag-ibooks","tag-reading","tag-shadow-puppet","tag-vermont","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}