Apple’s new textbook approach

Apple’s new textbook announcement looks pretty interesting and I blogged a little about it, and some of my reservations, here. As I say, even thought I write an English textbook, I don’t think English teachers are as reliant on textbooks as many other subjects seem to be. Still, it was nice for this video to open up with an English teacher talking, even though I don’t think I saw any examples of an English text book in the video.

Old Tech

Just about to head off to the Apple site to hear what they have to say about the ‘textbook revolution’, iBooks 2 and all that.  The video from the presentation is here and no doubt I’ll blog about all that sometime soon.

Meanwhile, I just received a pile of author copies of the new Issues Book and am getting fired up for the teaching year ahead. Sometimes, old-school technology can work too!  I love the colours this year too!.