MS Class Blog

Last Saturday was a fun class. I learned not only how to download ebooks, but also creating one. First Rolly told us to check out globalclassroom.org, where he showed our class some examples of ebooks made by intermediate to middle school aged students. Rolly guided us step by step on how to make ebooks using the ebook Studio software. We visited StrohHouse website to get the text file and we also included some images into our creation. You can get your pictures from google images. I learned that the images we put into our ebooks must be in .png format or else it will not work. One helpful tip I learned through the experience is that before I could apply the page break, all necessary corrections, formatting, and inserting images in the approriate locations must be completed or else some pages or screen will look incomplete. Some screens may only have a few lines of texts instead of showing a full page.
After we saved our ebook we were able to use the bluetooth to transfer it to the handheld. Cecille was able to assist me on this. The process went too fast for me. It was a lot easier and faster than hotsyncking. My only problem with this is my inability to remember the process after a while, so I may need to ask Cecille or any of my classmates to remind me.
The last lesson was on “Documents to go”. This lesson is just like having microsoft word only in the handheld version. Here we were able to save our documents and printed it as soon as we finished. I don’t know why, but I felt quiet like a kid, so excited to see my doccument after I beamed from the handheld to the printer, and it came out looking as if it was done in the desktop computer. The infra-red adaptor plugged to the printer was like a magical toy. The program PrintBoy is an amazing tool for allowing the handheld to (wirelessly) connect to any printer. We lined up, beamed the handheld to the infra-red adaptor called “Infraready” and the printer printed my document. Having these tools makes life a little easier.

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