Authors:
Eugénio Rocha
;
Ana Breda
;
Mário Soares
and
Telmo Parreira
Affiliation:
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Authoring tool, Educational software, Interactive digital books.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Av-Communication and Multimedia
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Web-Based Learning, Wikis and Blogs
Abstract:
We present a document platform, denominated “IntBooks”, that seamlessly aggregates web technologies into digital books, giving the reader an interactive, intelligent and rich environment, and authors a “simple” and collaborative way to build and share them. It addresses some of the common technical issues as: how should different media (e.g. mathematics formulae) be delivered and displayed in a large set of devices; how users interaction should be made and statistics collected; and how authors may reuse and mesh up content from different web repositories. A particular IntBook planned for the fifth and sixth grades of Basic Portuguese School is also discussed, emphasizing its specificities and additional features.