Found a nice ebook

I was looking at the iBooks shop for books on iBook author and stumbled across a 21 page ebook on using the iPad to teach math called "Transforming Math with iPad Strategies for best practices".  It is a nice guide with specific suggestions for activities including the use of three dimensional figures and how they are created.  There are lots of examples to check out and it gives me some ideas along with enough information to start playing with it.  

The best thing of all is that this short ebook is free.  I just bought my first Mac and have installed iBook Author on it.  I have been downloading free ebook on iBook author and in the process discovered free ebooks on using the iPad in the classroom so I am exploring those. Tomorrow, I am going to look at "The Teachers iPadoPedia An A-z of using iPad in the classroom." 

In the meantime, I am going to checkout some of the apps mentioned in the ebook I looked at today.

Apologies

I didn't get anything posted yesterday due to waking up to a nasty blizzard with total white out.  I couldn't see school, the lake and barely the edge of my post.  This also meant that my internet was messed up all day.  Today is much better.
I just ran across an announcement for an event this summer in June called the ibookhack  where teachers come together to create interactive ibooks with multitouch content.  I saw this and thought it would be a great place to be able to create several interactive math books.  The books do not have to be these long full length books but maybe smaller ones that cover a particular topic so that the sizes are manageable and cover only the material one would put on a test.  I know how to put together ibooks but I don't have the time but something like this would give me the time and a chance to put together things under the supervision of someone who is experienced with the materials.  I looked at the schedule for topics and they cover everything from basics to expert.  This could open up some great possibilities.