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10:03: Apple plays a video with teachers complaining about the state of the industry. Schiller says no one company or person can fix the industry, but Apple wants to help, specidically with engagement.
然后苹果播放了视频,内容是教师和学生的抱怨情况。
10:05: Schiller: There are 1.5 million iPads in use in education. It’s starting to take off, but we want to make it easier.
10:06: First step is “reinventing the text book.”
10:07: 开始颠覆和革命现有的教科书。
说了颠覆教科书的苹果新产品具备的功能:
The Verge
10:09: 苹果的新产品 “iBooks 2″ 发布
10:10: 接着开始演示 iBooks 2,
Now its demo time. The book being demoed is a biology textbook and its filled with interactive graphics. Apple says the obvious: No printed textbook could do this!
10:12: 点击进入可以看到更多图片 Click here to see The Verge’s excellent coverage »
10:15:还是演示 iBooks 2 产品。
虽然看起来很颠覆性,但是看不出有什么革命性的特点。。。
10:20 You can take notes in iBooks 2 with textbooks. You can take quizzes.They textbooks will be available in the iBookstore.
10:21: 苹果新产品发布会主角 Phil Schiller 宣布 iBooks 今天就发布并可以看到,
10:21: 然后苹果发布了 iBooks Author 产品,是一个 Mac 笔记本上使用的,用于创作 iBooks 的应用程序工具。
并且对新产品 iBooks Author 做了演示,可以拖拽使用等等特点。
To make these books, Apple has rolled out “iBooks Author,” a Mac application that lets you write books for iBooks. Apple’s running through a demo of the “iBooks Author” software. You have standard templates to choose from. You can drag and drop images.