 In this session, we're going to cover a few things. And what I wanted to do first is kind of introduce you to what PressBooks is and what you might be looking at when you start using it. So I'm going to share my screen and start with showing you the University of Nebraska's PressBooks Network. So any one of you should be able to visit this URL. It's pressbooks.nebraska.edu and find the landing page for your University of Nebraska PressBooks instance. This network is shared by people at UNK, UNO, UNL, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. If you were to log in, sign in here, it will take you to your TrueU Nebraska Identity Management tool. You enter your NetID and your password, and it will log you in and give you an account or an authorized account. So if you'd like to follow along, if you haven't already created an account, you should be able to just enter your university credentials and be given a PressBooks account that will allow you to follow along and do some of the things that Amy will show you later. The other thing that you'll notice is that every PressBooks network looks a little bit different, but here is an example of a PressBooks network that's run by a community that publishes open textbooks. So you can see there's a bunch of features about the landing page, and then this network also features a catalog, which would be where that institution might present a bunch of their published books. By viewing the catalog, you could see, oh, wow. They've published a guide to making open textbooks with students, an open approach to scholarly reading, an anthology of Hispanic literature in Spanish, a blueprint for college success, a bunch of different books that they've published on their network. You could filter them by subject. You could filter them by the license. You could even sort them by, let's see the latest book, or the most recent one, and it will arrange the appearance of these books it presented and see that they've published a lot of different books so I could go through all sight reading for guitar. If anybody's looking for a summer hobby, there you go. And that's kind of how PressBooks would present itself. So if I went back to the first page, let's say I wanna know more about the guide to making open textbooks with students. Each book on the network, so if you were to create a book, every book will have its own landing page and its own URL. So I'll take you to a book that exists on your network. Let's go to, okay. So here would be the landing page of that book on the Nebraska Network. So hopefully I've logged in correctly. And what you'll notice is every book has its own URL and it has a landing page. So the landing page would include things like the title, the author, a brief statement about the book. It will display the license for the book, a cover image. If you wanna make the book available offline in many different formats, you can. So in this case, this book is available for download as an EPUB or a PDF or a Moby file to read a McKindle or lots of other file formats you might wanna use. And I could download this PDF and show it to you here. This PDF is a nicely formatted print version of the book that I could take to my print shop or I could print and distribute kind of however I wanted. So Pressbooks make it easy to publish the book to the web and also make lots of export formats. You'll also notice that the book will display a table of contents. So this book has pretty large amount of sections and chapters within each section. You can have subsections or units underneath the section. And then you'll see some book information or metadata. There was a question from Laden about speaking to the copyright and publication credits, absolutely. I'll show that in just a moment. Let me show the reading interface first and then I'll get into that date. So you can enter a lot of metadata for your book and I'll show you a bit more details about how this gets entered but you can have title, author, contributors, editors. You can choose whichever license you feel is best for your work, whether it's all rights reserved or any of the Creative Commons licenses. If you have questions about licenses, librarians are usually a good resource to help you understand what your options are and what you might wanna choose. You can also indicate the publisher, the publication date. If Nebraska's issuing ISBNs or DOIs, those would be like references to refer to your book. You can enter those and associate them. And that's all the stuff that appears kind of on the landing page for the book. Now we can open up the introduction and start reading the book. So you'll see Pressbooks has a nice little reading interface here. Again, I can jump to the table of contents at any point. I can also click this next button and read the next chapter and kind of move through the book this way. One example of a chapter in a book would be like this, for example. So here's a chapter that I actually helped work on when we were at the University of Wisconsin. I worked with the vernacular architecture professor to do an open course all about the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Madison because he has a number of buildings here in Madison. So here's a chapter. You can see there's an image with the caption. There's a link. There's footnotes. And as you hover over, you see what the footnote content is where you can click a footnote and it will take you down to the bottom of the book and you can read the footnote content and then jump back up to the content here. You can see this is what's called the glossary term. If you click on the glossary term, a definition will pop up and you can add definitions or define key terms for learners. You can put various text boxes in the book. So here's an examples text box. We've embedded a video from YouTube about Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings. Later down in the book, you have a text box that has some examples. Again, down at the bottom of the text box, there's another text box with some key takeaways. And finally, the other really nice feature that we built in is an annotation tool that lets people discuss the work and have like either public or private conversations discussion on the text using a tool called Hypothesis. So here you'll see there's some highlighted text. If I click on the highlighted text, you'll notice this annotation layer pops out and you can see that someone has made an annotation with the link to some more references and people have replied to this annotation and they put an image or a video in the annotation layer. So you can use this to have conversations about a text. You could use it for editorial review or you could even use it. You could set up a little private group for your students and have conversation only for students in your class. And so they can have like a discussion form 2.0 on the text. That's a little bit of like what's possible and imagining what you can do with press books. Now I think there was a question from LaDon about how you could create copyright and publication credits. So this is the front end, the reading interface for press books. But if I were a book author, I could click the admin button and it will show me this big dashboard here for a book. Amy's gonna show you more detail about how to make a book but I wanted to show you the book info piece. So before, just as a reminder, this is the book info page and there's a bunch of information about the book. All of the information that displays on this page including book information and metadata gets entered in the dashboard in a section called book info. So if you wanna change what appears on your book's homepage, once you have a book, you just start filling out these fields. Most of them will be self-explanatory. It'll say, what's the title of my book? I can give it a short title, I can give it a subtitle and then I can start giving people credit for what they've done in the book. If for example, I wanted to give someone credit here for this book, I could say, let's make a new contributor and I'll say Julie Gregg and I'll say Don Ray. So I've created three new contributors for this book. I didn't add them as users to the book, I just created them as people that I can give credit for. So now I can come back into book info and I can say the translator of this book was Julie and Don was a reviewer and I'll say, well, then was the editor and I'll save that book information. Now you'll notice that if I go to the homepage of the book and come down to the bottom where I have my metadata, you'll see. Well, Don's being credited as the editor, Julie's being credited as the translator and Don's being credited as the reviewer. I can add lots of other information about a book, a publisher, the publisher city, the publication date, the ISBNs, the language the book is in. So if this book was written, say, in Spanish, I could come and select Spanish as the book language and then all the metadata and the reading interface would generally change to Spanish as well. I could upload a cover image which you saw on the title page. I could give the book a subject heading if I wanted to. I can also enter copyright information. So a lot of them was asking about this. I could give the copyright year, I list who the copyright holder is and then I can choose what license I want to apply to this book. So by default, the book will be all rights reserved but often in open education, you're gonna want to choose an open license that permits people to remix and reuse. And so you can choose from any of these creative commons licenses. My favorite license personally is the CCBY license which requires people to give attribution but otherwise gives them the freedom to do lots of important educational things but you may pick a different license or you might prefer something else so you can choose to license your work here. You can also add a copyright notice. In this particular book, they added a big notice that tells them what the copyright statement is and gives them some instructions for how to give attribution if they wanted to. And then you can add other stuff like a tagline or short description or a long description as well as lots of other metadata type information. So that's the page where you can enter that and we have a press books guide that will give you more instructions for entering book info and configuring it to look the way you want it to look. I'm gonna pause there and say, I have a question in the chat. Can we stop and take a question for why would someone want to create a press book? What are the advantages of press books over conventional books with publishers like say Roman and Littlefield? Okay, that's a great question, Karen. I think the major thing that I would say, the reason why you'd probably wanna create a book with press books is that this is a publishing interface that gives you total control. So in this situation, this instance, you can write, publish and create kind of whatever you want, however you'd like to do it, and you can share it under your own terms so it can be free for learners and free for others who might wanna access this. The biggest reason I think that people are drawn to press books is because they realize that the cost of textbooks is really, really high for their students and they themselves are often content experts who've written the textbook and they want a better way to do that. So that's generally the reason that you'd wanna use press books to share information more freely and under the terms that you want them to be shared under. And we do a lot of the stuff that a publisher would do or make it easy for you to do the things a publisher would do, like make the book available on the web, make the available book available in lots of different formats offline without having to know programming language or without having to know how to use InDesign or without having to know how to use specialized publishers offline. Can I interject here just a second? Yeah, go ahead, Don. With the OER programs that are popping up on all of our different campuses, this is perfect for that. So you can add all that material that's out there that's available free or with a very small charge which I assume we're not gonna be doing. And you can add all that material to the book and I'm sure that Stila's gonna be talking about this later. You can actually link it into your Canvas course. And I also think that someone who just graduated from a very, very large institution and have just been a student, I think this is especially valid, say like there are so many OER resources these days for say like introductory calculus courses. For like 2,000 students per year and there I've seen so many OERs related to like first year calculus courses and what profs can do is they can clone the book which I'll show you how to do or they can copy over parts they like and revise and remix and redistribute to their students. So the students don't have to pay for second edition. If a first edition that's in print is no longer being used, then used books don't even count because students will need that specific resource. Whereas if you're constantly editing and revising and updating and it's as simple as a click of save which will allow the public book that has been changed to be shown online then no one needs to spend a single cent on it. It'll have automatically been revised by the professor and professors can alter little things to suit their students and their institution. Thanks, Andy. That's really impassioned. I appreciate that. I was gonna say that another big advantage would just be the ability that you would have as an instructor to personalize, to customize, to adapt the material for your learning context. So you know your learners very well. And I know when I, so I used to teaching this literature classes and there'd be like a text or a chapter that I'd like except for a couple of things about it. And I'd be like, all right. So I made a handout or I have this other thing like ignore what this book says and use this in its place. And I always wanted to be able to adapt and revise things but with a copyrighted textbook that was difficult. So you have to kind of come up with creative in-class solutions. The idea with press books is that you can, you have the power and the ability to modify and adapt and revise and personalize or localize it for your learners as needed. That was what I wanted to show for book info. I think Amy's gonna show you now like how you can actually get started by making from scratch a book or cloning an existing book and adapting it. So take it away, Amy. I think you should have permission to screen share. Perfect. Dawn, did you have something to say? I was just gonna say that I have one faculty member I think that is attending that wants to have their students start creating books as well and that's possible. Yes, that is definitely possible. I will get into that now. I'm so excited. Everyone's so enthusiastic. So I'm just gonna show on the screen. So this is what you will see when you enter press books. When you log in, this is the first thing you're gonna see and you're gonna see this big create a new book sign but you can also go into here and press create a new book. And once you have a lot of books and once you've produced a lot of books or you're contributing to a lot of books all of your books will show up underneath like in a list. So I'm just gonna create a new book and you will always see this page. So you have to follow adhere to these rules. So I'm just gonna create a very boring name and say Nebraska, oops, test. Okay. And my book title will be Nebraska test book. Perfect. So for now I don't want my book to be visible to the public because there's going to be absolutely nothing on it. So now I create this book. Okay, perfect. So now we're at this book and if you go to visit book you will see that you see exactly the book sort of format that Steele had just showed you with a populated book. So your books on the web will always look like this. And obviously when you populate it then all the populated parts will show up in each respective section. So now I'm gonna go back into admin and this is where we were before. Now that you've created your book say you wanna add students or other contributors I can take you to users and this is where you will be adding the people who will be a part of the book. So let's say I have made this book and I just wanna share it with Don. Then I would go to add new and I would add him either as a new user or as an existing user. So an existing user would be someone who has already logged into the Nebraska network and has access to the stuff to the Nebraska network or has contributed in some way. So they would either have to sign in or sign up or if they already are or if they haven't logged in sorry or if they've never been on the network then I can add them as a new user. Say you want to add all 50 students to this one book because you want them to collaborate then we can go to bulk add and you can individually type in all of their emails so that you don't have to set up a new user and click 50 times. You can add all of their emails and add user and all of them will get an email invitation. The one thing I will note is that role is important because this will decide how much access they have to the back end of the book. So if you want your students to write books write a book sorry or contribute to the book I would suggest you choose them as either as author or editor and if you have other professors working with you or other instructors working with you or TAs et cetera then you can set them as admin and they will have more liberties with a book. Lastly as a setup measure I wanna show you this. So right now the book is set as private which means that when I go to visit my book if I log out then I can't see the book anymore but now if I log back in because I am me and I am the administrator of this book I have access to this book. So what happens if I set this book to public now even though I'm signed out now I'm able to see the book because I've set the book to public. So that's something that you have to be a little bit careful about which is why I recommended when we first set up the book that you set your book to private. I'm gonna keep this one open because it doesn't matter no one's gonna look at this book hopefully. So those are some of the privacy settings. You can also alternatively choose to say you want to hide a certain chapter. You can also have the book require a password and you can set your own password so that if I set a password if I access the chapter it's going to ask you to type in the password and that way if you only want chapters to be seen by certain people then you're able to set up. Now that we have the book setting sort of out of the way I can show you how we can create a book. So in my mind what makes Pressbook so great is the fact that there's different ways that you can start a book. So either you start from the bottom up so there's a completely empty book. You can start creating the book you can start writing in the book. You can build everything from the ground up as you would do with a normal book. But in my opinion the beauty of what we are is that you can remix and revise. So there's three ways in my opinion this is I'm gonna break it down to create a book. There's a bottom up, there's a top down and then there's mashing everything in together. So the bottom up part right now would be to create a book. So I can add a chapter and I can say a test chapter. This is the first new chapter. So this is how I would start writing in a book, right? And if I wanted multiple different parts if I wanted multiple different sections I can add a new part and this says second main. I meant to say second main body but it automatically saved. And now when I go back here now I have a second part and I can start adding chapters in here as well. And you can have as many chapters and as many parts as you want. So that's how you would start building from the ground up and you can write whatever you want in them and I'll show you what you can write inside afterwards. I see there's some questions in the chat. Steel, I'll let you take care of them for now unless actually I'll look at them. I got it Amy. Yes, I will Stephanie, I will be explaining that in a little bit. So now there is, now I'll take you through how you can mash different parts in together and this is done with the import function. So if you go to tools and import, you're able to import a lot of different content files into press books. Unfortunately, Stephanie PDF is not one that you can do but it takes most other files and it shows you what it can take here. So in other openly licensed textbooks as I see here from our friends at Rebus community you're able to download different functions and I'll show you how you can do this as well but you can choose to make your book available to others and in this case because Rebus community is a open educational community they want to make things as accessible as possible. So in this case, I'm going to download press box XML which is a file format that we do take and I'm going to choose XML, choose a file and I'm going to choose XML and I'm going to import the contents of this of the Rebus publishing guide into my book but I don't, if I wanted to import the whole book I can choose this but I don't want to import the whole book. Say I just want licensing information but their licensing information was in their backend but I don't want it in my backend. I want it in my front end. So I'm going to import that into here and I've only chosen this one. So now when I've imported, oops, why is it not working? There you go. So now you can see my licensing information is in my front matter even though their licensing information is in their back matter. So that gives you a lot of flexibility as to what you can do. Now, next I can also show you a case in which I can bring this in through, let's say, sorry, let's say the book doesn't have a downloading function. So this book, the authors of this book decided that they don't want this book downloaded for the pod to see, the pod to have rather. So I copy and paste this and import from URL and I can begin import. And similarly, I will see all the parts of the book and I can decide what I want to transfer over. So let's take losses and found and we're total pro. You know, definitely not. And let's say I want to keep them as chapters. I can import selection and now you might be wondering where I created two parts and there's different parts for the chapters can go. What am I going to do now? I'm going to mediocre suspense here. Okay, that's done. And you can see it came into the main part, the main body. But the beautiful part is that now you can just drag. So I didn't want those two. I wanted to be able to differentiate between what I brought in versus what I wrote myself. So I can have these features just but I can read just, I can choose where I want the chapters to go in the book. But so I can also have licensing information ahead of information. So you have a lot of flexibility in ordering the books without having to go through a huge maneuver. You won't have to copy and paste and reapply your whole book for this. One thing I will mention is that you can't transfer between parts. But the book is really divided into three sections. So it's front matter, middle matter, middle section and back matter. Front matter can only stay in front matter. Middle section can only stay in middle section and back matter can only stay in back matter. So that's something to keep in mind but within these parts, you can choose where they go. So that is how I would describe mesh-mashing different OER resources into one book. And now I'll go through the top-down method. So the top-down method is cloning a book. And let's say you're really pleased with this one textbook that's stellar but you want to make a few adjustments or you want to remove a chapter or two. But instead of importing what you can do is go to an openly licensed book. In this case, I've taken Open Tech Species book and if I come here, now I can clone a book. So this book is coming from Open Tech's BC and I'm going to say I want this to be Provincial BC English. Okay. And my target book title is Provincial. Or you can leave a blank and it'll bring over whatever book title that Open Campus was using. So cloning takes a little bit obviously because our API is taking a lot of time to drag every piece of information from this website in live time. In the meantime, what I'd like to say is you can only clone a book if it has a certain license. So for example, you will not be able to clone a book if the book license is all rights reserved for obvious reasons. But in this case, this book did not. It has the normal CCBY attribution which gives you a lot of flexibility to distribute the book in any way you'd like. Amy, just real fast. There is a conversation happening in the chat and it's kind of nuanced. So maybe I'll take a second and answer some of those questions. So there was a question. Do you need a screen share? No, I don't need the screen share. I'll just talk, I think. Okay, great. They can watch the clone turn on. The question was about could you include an entire article that had been published elsewhere like an open access journal? So it is a question about copyright and for copyright questions, it is good to consult with a copyright expert at your institution. It's probably gonna be a librarian. But generally, it depends on the license of the original material. If it's all rights reserved but open access, then you don't have the right without permission to redistribute that material in your book. So you could link to it but you couldn't make a copy and revise it. You could, however, probably, depending on what your university's stance on fair use is, I think that you could make a fair use argument. Yes, I can bring that into a book. As long as I don't publish it openly to the web, I could put it in a book, leave it private and only share it via two students through the LMS. Which is the same argument that people often make when you take a PDF of an article or of a book that you've scanned a chapter of and you bring it into your LMS as a course reading. That's a fair use for educational purposes as long as it's only available to a limited number of students in your class for a limited time. There's a kind of established case law on that. If, however, the article was published in that journal, not just open access but with an open license, like a Creative Commons license that allows people to revise and redistribute, then yes, you absolutely could. And so the examples that Amy are showing are with material that do have those open licenses. And so you have already been granted the permission to clone it, to bring it into your book, to do whatever you want with it. And that's what we think is really exciting in the educational space. And that's why open licenses are just so valuable for instructors because they give you the permission to do the kinds of things you're asking about. And so Greg's question is, thanks for the content presentation. As we get started with creating a book and have more detailed questions, can you email either of us? So the way that it works at Nebraska is you have network managers that are gonna be the lead press books people at your campuses. So Don is on this call and Brad is on this call and Julie's on this call. I can't remember who the fourth one is, is it Mike Zimmerman maybe? I don't remember. But each campus will have at least one person who will be your first line of support. That's the person that you would wanna email. And then those network managers, if they can't answer your question, they will come to us with questions. And so we provide the premium support to your network managers. And we're more than happy to answer questions there. Also, if you have questions and you can't remember the person, if you know somebody from any of the campuses, you can relay the questions to us and we'll give those answers to you too. Let's continue with the demo. So now the book has finally been cloned. You will see if I go and visit website, it's cloned over. It looks literally identical to this book. So that's pretty nice, isn't it? And then everything else fits the same as well. And you can see all the metadata has copied over as well. So that is how you clone a book. And now I will show you the fun part, which is writing the book. So I have gone back to my textbook, which is completely empty, but I thought it'd be nice if I could show you how to, in an empty book rather than a populated book. So if I go into my chapter, this is what's called our visual editor. And you have a text editor, if you know HTML, this might be very useful for you. I personally, I'm working on it, but I don't know HTML on this. And what's so nice about the visual editor is that it's set up in the exact same way that say Google Docs or Word is set up. So it's convenient for almost anyone to use. So let's start writing. The first place I'd say that we should start is perhaps this feature here, which are the headers. I would recommend while you're writing your book to start from header one, header two, and not really skip them, because it orders the book in certain, the book is formatted in a certain way, where it's designed to support each heading in a structured sort of a way. So one, two, three, obviously. So if I start with heading one, I'll say this is a header. And if you go in here, now you'll see that it's H1. So it corresponds properly. It corresponds as it should to each other. So that's the heading function. And then something else that you might wanna do is add a text box. So there's many different examples of a text box. You can have an exercise. Oh, whoops. They're all essentially the same basically, but that is not what I meant to do. I just added a text box, but then a text box. But there's many different colors and you can choose, but they're all formatted so that you choose exercise, you'll get blue. And if you choose learning objectives, you'll get green. There's different ways you can change the colors of these. They're also customizable, so you're not stuck with them. The text boxes are useful because lots of profs or instructors at the end of their chapter, they will add learning objectives, interspersed throughout their chapter. And then at the end, they'll have a big exercise portion with different questions and other activities in it like H5P, which Ciel can show you later. So there's that. And another useful feature is a table. So you can create a table to whichever size to your liking. There's different styles. That might be useful for your course. And then what's nice about this is you can also add math and it just takes a simple law tech short code. So I just take Pythagoras and then I just have to end my short code. So let's take a second. And if I save and view my chapter, nice. Now it's formatted and it looks nice and doesn't have the short codes around it. It's a nice little image. And you're able to add these wherever you want. You can add them in text boxes, et cetera. So if I go back, am I going too quickly? Does anyone have any questions about what they can add? I see there's a lot of questions in chat. Are there any directly related to this right now? Nope, keep going Amy. Okay, excellent. So that's law tech. And then the two other things that I want to show you that are important are footnotes and glossary. So I'm not going to go through all the other ones. There's special characters, which has an incredible base of just characters that you might find useful. There's a clear formatting tool. Say you've imported something, you've imported something and the formatting's a little wonky. What you can do is select the parts that you think are acting wonky and click clear formatting. They're all pretty self-explanatory. Obviously the alignments, superscript, subscript, et cetera, but footnotes and glossary are fun. So let's do this. Main body. I click glossary, then I can see the term in main body and I can say this is a test. I'm sorry, this is very boring. I'm not creating very many fun terms. But this is the glossary term and you can see there's a short code which shows you that this has been created into a glossary and now it's in a like a glossary world where the definition of this exists. For footnotes, I don't recommend you highlight anything at all. You just have to drop a cursor and say, you can't see it now, I don't think, but I have a pop-up on my screen which allows me to add in my footnote content. So I've just typed in, this is my footnote and I click okay and you can see now there's a footnote there. If I save and go into my chapter, now I have my glossary, which tells me my terms and I have my footnote which upon clicking it'll take me directly to my footnote and if I click this it'll take me back to where the footnote came from which is convenient if students want to see where the citations and they constantly have to go back and forth. So those are the basic functionalities of what you can write in the chapters and in any part for that matter. And there's a bunch of embedded media that you can use as well. So say I want to take an open license book and I really like the cello. So I'm gonna look up a picture of cello on the Creative Commons search base and the person says credit the creator and non-commercial use is only, this is not a commercial use. So for now it isn't, I suppose, the textbook rather. So I'm gonna save this as a JPEG. And if I come into here, there's this nice button that says add media. I can click add media and select a file. And now I can add an alt text. So the alt text is what shows if the page isn't rendering. So say your image isn't rendering for some odd reason. I'm going to say cello on a light couch. I know that's not the proper terminology for that piece of furniture. I have no idea what it's called. And I'm going to say, and that's the caption that I'll show up underneath my picture. And if you ever want to replace your media you're able to do so. And I'll show you a little bit later onwards. This is not the only way that you can add your media but there's a separate media gallery function. And there's a bunch of attributions. So I would take, I would go find this image. I would add the source URL. I would add his name, Tom K. cello. And you can see there's a lot of different, you can find all the information that you would need on here. And the license was, I believe it was non-commercial, et cetera, et cetera. I'm not going to be distributing this book anywhere. So for time sake, I am not going to fill all that in. But there we go. Now we have a picture and the caption that I added. Another thing you can do is add a YouTube video which I can just copy and paste in here. We've gotten questions before on whether or not this is allowed. And you can do this because it's just embedding the video from somewhere in a public domain. If you were to download the book and upload this as your own video, that is a whole other story. I would advise against it unless the content was openly licensed and you credit it properly, but to just embed a YouTube video is okay. And you can see that if you were to click this in the browser, it would automatically start playing which is nice so that it doesn't take you outside of your page. It won't take you to a separate YouTube tab, sorry. It will automatically start playing in the browser. So those are two ways in which you can add media and if I click save, if I go into my chapter, you can see it looks nice. And if I start playing this, it will start playing on my browser, which is awesome. The one thing to note here is that these features, the video will only show in the web book version, obviously, if you were to export this as a PDF which I will show you in a bit. It will have a little video box that says this video will not play here because this is a print copy. But I will show you that when we come across it. Also what's really nice about these things is that you can also put them in text boxes. So if you want a picture to go along with a description or a learning exercise, then you're able to put them in there and same with YouTube videos as well. So moving on, the picture that you've added all lives in this nice thing called a media library. So you can either choose to add your media library, you can choose to add your pictures into here, at which point if you were to go on your chapter, you will automatically have access to them or you can add them as you're going along, as you're writing your book in the chapters themselves, but you'll have to upload them then. I hope that makes sense. It's just like clapping and pasting a picture into a word as opposed to importing something that already exists in your laptop, let's say. So that's your media library. Okay, now we're basically done. That is how you construct a book. So let's say that I've spent hours and hours and hours on this and now my book looks perfect and I'm ready to show this to the world, which is definitely not true right now. So all I have to do is go to export. Amy, before you export, would you show the appearance thing where you can choose a different theme? So so they see that? The theme options? Yeah. Yeah, so the themes are, there's many themes that you can use. Obviously we have a lot here and the themes affect all of the web books, the ebooks, the Mobi files, the PDF and it just affects the way that our books look and they've been custom designed so that they fit a specific function. So for example, if you're writing a textbook, most people I would say use either the Graham theme, the Jacob's theme or Malala. Malala is our newest one. I really like the way it looks. I studied chemistry and I studied math and most of my textbooks came with a very clean, nice looking layout and I really recommend Malala. So if I activate Malala, I can now visit my book and although it doesn't look any different on here when you click on the chapters, it looks slightly different. Like the text is different, the colors are different, the font is different, the learning objective colors will stay the same but like I said, that's customizable regardless. If I remember how to do that, steal. It's in global options. So if you go to global options, just there under theme options and scroll down, you'll see here the colors you can change globally for each one of those text boxes. So if I want this to be a God awful shade of pink, I can now have this. And if I go into my book, it should have changed to pink. Oops, there we go. Now, this awful, awful shade of hot pink and kind of light to army green. So you can obviously customize those features as well. And the one nice thing that I need to mention is the fact that you can change your theme at any time and the book will just automatically render. And that's the nice part about press books is that at no given point, you have to decide on something, right? Isn't that like the beauty of OER? It's nothing is set. So if you like have a typo, it's not the end of the world, all you have to do is go and change it and save. And that includes our themes, color options and whatever other customizable feature there is. The only thing that really, in my opinion, can't be changed, that will be very important to you is the link of your book. Even your title, you can change if you want to. You're the book edition, you can just update them as you go. But the link is really the only thing that can't be changed. So that's really nice. So now if I come into export, I'm really pleased with the Malala theme. And now you can also see that the Malala theme is here so that before you export, you know exactly what you signed up for. So right now I just wanted for PDF digital distribution and I'm going to export it. And while I'm doing that, I will explain all the other formats as well. So let's say you want to add this into your LMS. This is where you'd be able to see this, the carbon cartridges, or someone wants to read this on a Kindle. You can also export it for that purpose as well. Can your physical copies do that? I don't think so. So this is how my book looks. And what's so nice about the digital copy of the PDF is that you can click at any point and it'll take you directly there. And as you can see, it's following the Malala theme as I had said, because it follows all the different formats. And you can see the footnote and you can see as I had said the video. This YouTube element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can do it online here. And you'd be able, like this, it would directly take me to my book. So these are the ways in which you'd be able to see your book. And the only thing that's different about the digital PDF and the print PDF is that they're not hyperlinked so that there's a difference there. And say you want, now that you've exported your book, say you want this to now show up as downloadable features in your homepage. You'd have to go to your settings and click sharing and privacy. And at the bottom is share latest export files. Yes, I would like to do that. So if I now visit my book, I may be able to download this book as a digital PDF. So whichever of the latest files you've exported will show up down here. So let's say I go to admin and I go to export and I did all of these. And hell, why not throw out an XML version in there for those who want to download and put it on their own instance of a press box or whatever other any readers there building on. That sentence didn't really make sense, but I hope that made sense in general. We're having a heatwave in Montreal right now and it is absurdly hot. Thanks Amy. Do you mind if I grab screen share from you here? Yes, so I just wanted to show the fact that now if you go into here and you visit the book, now all of these other functions are available for anyone to download as long as your book is public. So that's it from me. Thanks for bearing with me. Okay, so the couple of questions just came in the chat and I want to address both of those. So earlier someone was asking about a global spell check being built into press books. We haven't built global spell check into press books, but what we do know is there are a bunch of people that use a pretty popular free browser extension called Grammarly that will do the spell checking there in the browser with the editor. Or you can do spell checking by writing your document in a word processor somewhere else, spell check it and then import it or copy paste it. The other question that people had was how to do things with the learning management system on the campus. So let me share my screen and show you this. I also mentioned earlier that you could use hypothesis as the annotation tool. I just wanted to show you how you could turn that on for your book. If you'd like to use hypothesis, it's a free open source tool that can be just built into your book without having to install anything to start using it. If you come to book settings and click hypothesis, you'll see a bunch of different options and really what you need to do is decide which part of your book do you want it to be used on. In my case I'll say let's put it on parts, chapters, front matter and back matter and then save changes. Once I do that, when I visit this book and I go to any part of the book now, you'll see this little tool has just appeared in my browser and when I select text, it'll give me a little prompt and says do you want to annotate or highlight? And if I do, the hypothesis client will pop up and it will ask me to log in with my free hypothesis account and then I can start making annotations. You do not need a hypothesis account to view annotations but you would need one to create them and save them on a book. So that's how to turn hypothesis on. The next question was let's say I have this book. So this is a really great book. It's an introduction to women, gender and sexuality studies and I wanna bring this book, the whole thing, into Canvas, into the learning management system. So Amy was showing the export routines earlier. One of the export options is called common cartridge with LTI links and so I will export it in this format and what this is is it's a zip file that lets me bring in links to an entire book very quickly into the LMS. So I've created that LTI common cartridge file and I'm gonna download it and then I'm gonna come over to a Canvas course. So here's an empty Canvas course. I will say settings, I will say import course content and then I'm gonna pick this common cartridge file that I just downloaded from Pressbooks. I can pick only certain chapters but at this time I'm just gonna say let's bring in the whole book in and I'm gonna click import. So what's happening now is Canvas is saying, okay, we found a file, we're gonna import it into the learning management system. It's told me that it completed and now I went from having an empty course to now having a very large course where every part of the Pressbooks book is now a module in Canvas and every individual chapter is now a link in Canvas. So for example, let's read about the family. When I click the link, this is loading via LTI and I am seeing the live version of the Pressbooks book here in the learning management system, complete with annotation or whatever else I may wanna do. If I notice there was a typo in the chapter of the family, I can come back to the book itself, let's find the family and let's add a new sentence saying this is for the demo at Nebraska. I changed that chapter. It's just been published and now if I refresh this link in Canvas, you'll see the learner would see and the next time they click the link, they would see whatever the live version of the book is. So rather than loading a package that you have to re-edit and re-import, this link will be good for basically as long as you want it to be and it will always point to the live version of your book. What's really nice about the LTI link, the question that I think Professor Sashadri asked was can you use private content? Yeah, you can. So in this case, I could say this book, this chapter, the family, is actually all rights reserved material that I don't wanna put on the public web. So I'm taking it off of the public web, which means that if I were to view this book at the regular URL, I wouldn't see this unless I was logged in. But it will still be visible to students because the LTI link will give them the ability to view private content. So it's a way to make sure that they can see content only inside the bounds of your classroom or within the walls of your class. So yes, if you wanted to use all rights reserved material or make material so it was only visible to your students, that would be the mechanism or the way to do that. There is obviously much more that we could talk about. This was kind of drinking out of a fire hose. We went very, very fast. We're at time. We really do appreciate you all being here giving us your time and your attention. It's really inspiring to see so many instructors thinking about their students and thinking about learning, especially now that I believe your semester's over. So you could be doing many other things right now and it's really heartwarming to see you thinking about teaching and learning and thinking about how to serve your students. So thanks for taking your time today to talk with us. Amy and I are more than happy to stay a little bit longer. I know that we scheduled this for an hour and a half but we want to be mindful of people's time. We're happy to answer any other questions that people have or things that they'd like to know about. We're to dive a bit deeper into things like interactive content. We didn't even touch on that or anything else you might want to see. Hey, Steve, I'm going to pop in a link to the chat right now. This is for a Canvas course we have called Pressbooks 101. Just a lot of good info. Actually a lot of this links out to Pressbooks trading that's already out there that's really good and extensive. So if you want to look at that, go ahead. If you see anything in there that isn't there that you'd like, let me know and we'll get it added. Okay, Nita said they want to see how to interact and insert interactive material into a book. Okay, this is probably my other favorite piece of Pressbooks so I'm glad you asked and we didn't show it earlier but let me get back to a browser that I can show this in. Can one insert animated GIFs? Of course you can. Yeah, go nuts. You could do that just through the media library that Amy was showing there. You can insert GIFs and other kinds of interactive or like multimedia that way. The thing that I want to show though is on the Nebraska Network. The most common way to make interactive content here in Pressbooks is using another third party tool that we've integrated really tightly with Pressbooks. And that tool is called H5P. H5P is an open source product that was built as a replacement for flash activities to do interactive learning. So it does things like quizzes, it does interactive videos, it does branching scenarios. So it does things like captivate and storyline and really high power tools except that it's free and open source and it's tightly integrated with Pressbooks. So in a sample book, so let's say I come to this book that I have that's called Empty Book, if I hadn't previously activated it, I could come to plugins and I would activate H5P. Once H5P is activated in your book, you'll see a little, a new link in your dashboard that says H5P content and you can create H5P activities. So what you'll see is there are 40 something different types of interactive content. You can build accordions, essay prompt activities, math quizzes, charts, collages, course presentations which are like interactive PowerPoints. I mean, there's really a rich set of interactive content. In this case, let's start with something kind of simple. Let's just do a multiple choice question. So I'm gonna say, let's use the multiple choice activity type. It'll take me a second to install it the first time I wanna use it and then I'll say use. And then what will happen is H5P will bring you to a little builder. With each of these activity types, they'll have a tutorial and an example. So the tutorial will show you step by step how to make this type of activity and guide you through the first time. Usually you'll find this is pretty fast and there's a lot of options. Or you can say, here's an already existing activity that someone's already built. And you can click the reuse button and just grab that activity and modify it. So rather than making a new one, what I'm actually gonna do is come back to add new and I'm gonna say upload and add the activity that I just, oops, add the activity I just downloaded. Which was a multiple choice activity. So let's say, let's use this activity. Just like with press books, H5P is designed to be open and licensed and to be reusable and remixable. So most H5P activities can be just imported and edited and modified, which is great because they're open. If you clone a book that has H5P activities, those activities will also be included with the clone, which is also very nice. So here I have this multiple choice question that they built. So I'm just gonna save the one that existed. And you'll notice at the bottom, there's a bunch of different options that I have where I can give students individual hints or feedback based on the answer that they selected and indicate whether their answer is correct or incorrect. I can also give overall feedback for the activity itself based on feedback range. And I can set some behavioral settings. I can let them retry this as many times as they want. I can show them the solution so that they can see it before they repractice or turn that off. I can also choose how the activity is assessed or graded and I can randomize the answers. There's a bunch of different kind of detailed configuration settings here. I could also override the default text and I can localize it to another language if you're working in a target language that isn't English. We did this a lot with Portuguese when we were building a Portuguese language textbook and we really enjoyed the experience. Okay, so here is a sample multiple choice. Yeah, Amy, nice job. You answered a question for me in chat but I didn't know the answer to. So the multiple choice activity here, you'll see this was the activity that was created and I could say what color does the black current berry actual have? Let's try very dark purple. That was the right answer. So I built an interactive activity. Once I've built one activity, I can come back to my book and I can insert it anywhere I want in the book just like Amy showed you the add media button. There'll be an add H5P button. Let's insert this H5P activity. When I preview that chapter, you'll see here is that interactive content has just been inserted into this book and learners can interact with it. I got that one wrong. Let's show the solution. I was actually very dark purple. Let's retry it. Now it's very dark purple. That's correct. There are lots of different books that have really cool examples of how people have added a bunch of different interactive content to enhance their book. One of my favorite examples is the OAR source book that we built at the University of Wisconsin. My graduate assistant at the time Naomi Salmon built this as a whole bunch of ideas for how to do interactive learning in an open book. So we talked a lot about language instruction so you can see here's an example of a mark the words activity where you practice conjugating a verb. So let's click all the words that we think are the conjugated forms of the verb ser. I'm gonna get this pretty wrong but I might get a few of them right. You can see I got these ones right but all those other ones wrong. And then I could show the solution and it's gonna show me what the correct answers are. As a learner I could practice this as many times as I wanted before moving on to the next example. You can do things like fill in the blanks. So here's a fill in the blank activity where we're practicing pluralization. And I can get real time feedback. I got all of them wrong. Let's see the solutions. I have to fill in all the blanks before I do. So you can give them feedback and instruction there. You can build flash cards. This one is really fun. What's the name of this snail? Oh, it's actually a broadbanded forest snail. I think this is a pink ladies slipper. I know that one, white flower. Definitely got that one wrong. I think this is a giant puff ball and she's got the Latin name as a hint for me. Okay, so you can see you're doing kind of different interactive content. You have a series of flash cards where you're practicing this Barry's name in Spanish. Is that right? No, I got it wrong. And then you could do things like hotspots. So here's an image where I've added a bunch of annotated hotspots. So that's this word, that's this word. A lot of different really interesting things that you can do with H5P to enhance learning. Generally, these are pretty easy to build. There's usually a guide to tell you how to build it and what to do with it. And you're supposed to find the tallest tree. I clicked on this and I identified the hotspot. So there's a big range of H5P activities that we've kind of demoed and shown there. Hopefully that's got you thinking about the kinds of learning that you could build into a book, making more interactive than a print text. And you could do lots of different things with media as well, but that takes a bit longer. Yeah, I think Julie had a question about analytics availability. Yeah, so Julie, there is, we're building a new LTI tool that will include a great pass back to the learning management system for H5P. And that would be, that's an additional add-on for press books, which Nebraska does not have right now, but that's coming available soon and they could decide to purchase. It has been, I know that these initial trainings are just kind of like often a lot of information all at once. We did provide a link to a press books user guide. A lot of times you can get the self help or the self-paced learning there from that. We put that in the chat earlier, but it's just guide.pressbooks.com. And there are a lot, a lot of chapters there that can help you kind of cover the topics you generally will want. And your network managers will be great resources and they can get premium support from us as needed. So we wanna be available, we wanna help you succeed. And we're really interested to see what you make. We hope that you do consider open licenses and sharing your work with others. Everyone will benefit from the things that you make and share. Education is in many ways sharing. So please consider that. Am I correct that you have YouTube videos also? Oh yeah, we do. There's a set of, there are a lot of videos. Some of them are shorter kind of training style videos and others are like versions of this training or webinars that we do on various topics. Earlier this week I did a webinar about how to make an open anthology of public domain materials. So if you teach in literature, history, or political science, or law, or a discipline where your primary texts are in the public domain, you may wanna make a replacement for the Norton anthology that's free and open because the work is already in the public domain. And so I get like an end to end demo of how to do that, for example. And if you wanted to watch that, that would be there. Steele, I think we have a question regarding what is the difference between EPUB and EPUB3, which I actually don't have an answer to. Okay, Brian, so basically there's two specifications for EPUB, EPUB2 was the older EPUB specification and that's the one that's still largely supported by most E-book readers. EPUB3 is just the newer version of the EPUB specification. The files will function basically identically and for stability we would generally recommend making the older EPUB format because more readers will support it more reliably. One of the supported formats, EPUB is really EPUB2. Exactly. Okay, all right, thank you. Okay, well thank you everybody for taking 80 minutes out of your day. Would promise us to be a beautiful spring day all across the Midwest. I may be a little hot for you Amy, but it's nice for us in Wisconsin and probably hopefully nice for you in Nebraska. We really do appreciate your time and attention and we'll cut the recording here and we'll share it with your network manager soon. Thanks a lot. Thank you.