The document discusses essential mobile apps for students to use to create and store publications using iPads. It recommends using WebDAV or Dropbox for unlimited or limited storage, respectively. It also recommends the paid app Creative Book Builder for creating interactive ePubs that can be read on iBooks or exported to other services. The document provides steps for creating ePubs using Creative Book Builder, including outlining with Popplet Lite, adding text, photos, videos and audio, and publishing to various services like Dropbox.

1. Essential Mobile Apps:
Student Publications & Storage
with iPads
10 November, 2012
HCT Women's College, Fujairah
Jeff Maggard
jeffrey.maggard@zu.ac.ae

2. Background
• Background to the Integrated Skills Project (ISP)
• ISP Learning Goals & Objectives
• ISP Curricular Goals & Objectives
• What is an epub? What is an iBook? How do they differ
from PowerPoint, Keynote and PDF formats?
• Examples of student epubs/iBooks for the ISP
• Overview of Creative Book Builder (CBB) features as seen
in student epubs/iBooks for the ISP

3. Which apps?
• *CREATE STORAGE SPACES FIRST, THEN CREATE ePUBS
• WebDAV (a file system with unlimited storage)
• Dropbox (limited storage for free up to 16 GB)
• Popplet lite (free storyboarding/mind-mapping app)
• Creative Book Builder (a paid app that enables students to
create and publish highly interactive ePub books that can
read with any ePub reader, including iBooks. ePubs can
be imported/exported to Dropbox, Google Drive & email)
• iPad camera and video (free w/iPad) and/or iMovie ($4.99)
• Voice Record Pro (optional free HD quality app)

4. WebDAV Storage
• Open WebDAV and create a
folder for student projects
(this will be their “Path” when
you export to WebDAV
• Remember to use dashes (no blank spaces for the folder
names)
• If you have empty spaces between names, students will have
to write %20 in the gaps.
• For example: AUH%20SCRATCH%20DRIVE/students/Level%205/Jeff
%20Maggard/Fakhira.
• This is better: AUH-SCRATCH-DRIVE/Level-5/Jeff-
Maggard/Fakhira

5. Dropbox account
• Create a Dropbox Storage
(https://www.dropbox.com/
• Make a shared folder (click on
“Sharing” and then “New shared
folder”)
• Name this folder and import
contacts
• Inside this shared folder, create
a folder for each student. Then
students can export epubs to
Dropbox.
• *Note: the size of an ePub cannot

6. Preparing to Create
• Use Popplet lite to brainstorm
ePubs
and/or create an outline for the
ebooks
• Write texts to match the Popplet
outline
• Use iPad’s camera and/or video
recorder to collect images and
sounds
• Use iMovie for the HD quality
sound and video
• Use Voice Record Pro (HD audio)

7. Creating ePubs
• Open CBB and create an ePub
file
• Create a title page and save
it
• Insert Pictures, choose fonts,
alignment, colors
• Add and delete chapters and
sections
• Add texts, pictures, videos,
audio recordings, links to

8. • Click on Publish (bottom left)
Exporting ePubs
• Select “ePub” and then Generate
Book
• Choose EPUB Version 3.0 and then
click on Start Processing
• When this finishes, click on
“Close”
• You may export to email, Dropbox,
Google Drive, FTP, WebDAV, iTunes
or QR
• If you choose Dropbox, login
first then export your ePub (in

9. Follow-up Resources
• Academic Bridge Program, Level 5, Zayed University
(2012). Level 5 Integrated Skills Project. (Handout
from today’s workshop--email me if interested in a PDF
version: jeffrey.maggard@zu.ac.ae)
• C. Chausis, H. Lazzaro (2012). Creative Book Builder
Tutorial. Retrieved from
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B85Nly7Q2HIvN1JKVzd4Q
lVSRHlkMW85N0NRYjdLdw/edit?pli=1
• Jessica Pack (2012). Creative Book Builder Video
Tutorial. Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/44133646
• Tiger Ng (2012). Key Features of Creative Book
Builder. Retrieved from
https://itunes.apple.com/ae/app/creative-book-
builder/id451041428?mt=8