iBooks Textbooks for the iPad...the dream is being realised

I try hard not to post advertising on this blog, but rather professional articles that I find interesting and hopefully readers do too.  While this page is Apple info/tising, it is concrete proof of the vision that was shared at the 2011 ICT Roadshow....where books and teaching are heading in the future. 
Having just spent a week contacting new text books for two of my kids (with the swearing and cursing that goes with all the bubbles and creases - not to mention wondering if they will ever be opened) this is a a useful and encouraging move towards a different conept of 'textbook'

Read more at:
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/

Introducing an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created by publishers using a new authoring tool from Apple. A textbook brought to life by iPad.

Teaching with Ipads - a Bootcamp model

I came across this series of blog posts in looking over the myriad of newsletters and feeds that I scan regularly (great when you stay on top of it, a pain when you've been on holidays for a few weeks!).

Anyway,  this is a short series of posts about how one fellow in the states decided to use iPads in his classroom.  Note the emphasis is on the TEACHING not the apps for the ipad.  He is using Blooms Digital Taxonomy and the ipad is merely the tool....lots of open ended problem solving which still involves explicit teaching!

http://www.schooltechnology.org/2012/01/04/teaching-kids-with-ipads-part-1-of-5/

Move to the second part of the series to see a movie of an iPad band...the options are exponentially growing by the day!