Showing posts with label textbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textbook. Show all posts
Monday, March 9, 2015
Beautiful textbook comes to the iPad The Professional Chef
Inkling again shows the way with their innovative approach to textbooks. This is an excellent example of how textbooks continue to develop into interactive experiences. The learner has a say into how they view the information, how many times they revise a concept and how they record their observations, or conversations with other students. They even have a FREE chapter on Soups as a intro to the concept.
Master the Skills for a Cooking Career - The Professional Chef from Inkling on Vimeo.
Inkling has teamed up with The Culinary Institute of America to rethink the classic cooking textbook, The Professional Chef, for the digital age. Their version is more than just a simple ebook... it incorporates videos, search, bookmarks, intelligent navigation, and stunning photos. It even adds social networking, that allows you to view and share notes written into the margins.
The social networking aspect of some of these textbooks is what will really extend the learning outside the classroom. The Professional Chef not only allow you to record your own notes but allows you to view the notes of others - this would be a great way to connect with professionals in the industry. We already see hundreds of talented and enthusiastic experts connecting with classrooms all round the world. This is a simple way to link the conversations back to the syllabus - meeting specific outcomes.
This concept is one that is also very easy to transfer to other subject areas. In a way every time one of these eTextbooks is published it means the next one is easier. As an Art Teacher I can see the possibilities of similar coding being used for Visual Arts, Maths, Science, English the whole range of subjects - each with videos, interactive graphs and manipulative interactives.
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Master the Skills for a Cooking Career - The Professional Chef from Inkling on Vimeo.
Inkling has teamed up with The Culinary Institute of America to rethink the classic cooking textbook, The Professional Chef, for the digital age. Their version is more than just a simple ebook... it incorporates videos, search, bookmarks, intelligent navigation, and stunning photos. It even adds social networking, that allows you to view and share notes written into the margins.
The social networking aspect of some of these textbooks is what will really extend the learning outside the classroom. The Professional Chef not only allow you to record your own notes but allows you to view the notes of others - this would be a great way to connect with professionals in the industry. We already see hundreds of talented and enthusiastic experts connecting with classrooms all round the world. This is a simple way to link the conversations back to the syllabus - meeting specific outcomes.
This concept is one that is also very easy to transfer to other subject areas. In a way every time one of these eTextbooks is published it means the next one is easier. As an Art Teacher I can see the possibilities of similar coding being used for Visual Arts, Maths, Science, English the whole range of subjects - each with videos, interactive graphs and manipulative interactives.
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
Selling your textbook
I hope I didnt catch you too late! Its time for my annual warning to NOT sell your textbook. This is the time of year when many A&P students think about selling their textbook back to the bookstore or textbook co-op. Some sell them directly to other students on campus or through an online platform. DONT DO IT!
Why not? Because you still need it!
Just because your A&P course is over, your use of your A&P textbook is far from over. Here are just a few of the many reasons you should keep your A&P materials, including the textbook:
- Youll need to review your A&P at the start of nearly every topic in your professional / clinical courses. Many nursing, medical, and allied health textbooks include a brief review of A&P . . . but youll do better with a quick skim of your fully illustrated A&P textbook.
- Your A&P textbook will get you out of a jam. There will be occasional moments when you "blank out" on some essential bit of A&P . . . something you need to "get it" in a later course. Your trusty A&P textbook will come to your rescue by providing refreshing your understanding of that tricky concept . . . in a way that is already familiar and comfortable for you.
- You need to start a professional library. So many health professionals begin their careers regretting that they sold off many of the essential reference tools they need to get started in a successful professional career. Your A&P textbook is the core around which you should begin building your professional library of resources.
- When youre out there in the "real world" youll need some tools to help you cope with new situations. Its a great comfort to have your A&P book there to help you review basic concepts that you havent run across in a while. When youre pulled to a different department, start a job in a new specialty, or struggle through a professional continuing education course, youll find your old A&P book is a great place to dig out all those things you know you know . . . but with which you need some brushing up.
I just smile and reply, "you sold off yours after our course ended, didnt you?"
The sheepish reply then comes, "yeah, I know you told us to hold on to it but I didnt think Id really need it. Now I REALLY need it to help me in my nursing course!"
[FYI, we A&P professors really do NOT have a pile of old A&P books laying around to give away.]
Considering that you rarely get much of a return on selling a used textbook, it really isnt much of a hardship to keep your A&P textbook. Youll be really glad that you did!
Also see my Study Tip Your Professional Library in the Lion Den.
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