School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit - Teachers’ digital toolkit
Myebook instructions
Create online e-books – embed video and audio files
1. Teacher registration: Go to Myebook at <www.myebook.com>.
Sign up to obtain a Username and Password. Login after your
registration has been confirmed. Myebook is for adult authors only
and runs slowly on older computers. NB Remind students never to
use surnames in their user names when registering for digital tools.
2. Explore: The library, bookshop, tags and community will show
you what people have been creating with Myebook. You will find
your own completed e-books in my account. You can save
Favourites or Subscriptions in your account. You can save your
work and keep it private until it is ready for publication.
3. Create: Click on Create myebook and Upload a PDF that you have
already written and wish to publish or Start now from scratch.
Make sure that you have your text, images or videos ready before
you start.
4. Start now: Choose a title, description, tags and a category
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5. Create book using a blank template or a theme
6. Myebook builder: If you wish to upload images first, click get files.
7. Import your own images, videos, audio, files or flash to create a
gallery to choose from as you create each double page spread OR
use frames, themes, assets or forms supplied by Myebook.
Your files
Myebook assets
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8. Create pages and Add text. Add images by dragging and dropping
from the images gallery. Pages can be added through top Pages
menu or by clicking on the bottom pages menu, then using Page
management. See also Gallery management and Special
inserts, such as an external video. Arrange pages and Edit to
undo.
9. File – Save or Publish – Choose settings – Publish now
Copy the URL of your e-book and share it with friends. E.g. The
enchantress and the skyship – click on the page corners to read it.
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