<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><div style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.nimac.us/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; font-weight: bold;">NIMAC</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span> (National Instructional Materials Access Center) books can only be downloaded by a teacher, so the student must be under the umbrella of your organizational membership. Aside from that, students can get the text from you in several ways:</span></font></div><ul style="max-width: 100%;"><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">login to their individual account and grab the book from the reading list you share with them. This works well if the student is on a computer or Read2Go app.</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">use the conversion method with Calibre to convert the book to an ePub, then dropbox to the student. They can then use iBooks or VoiceDream Reader to open. iBooks is preferred if image support is needed and/or if student is working between multiple devices such as a computer+iPad (can sync highlights/notes). The attached cheatsheet for that process is posted here for easy reference. It provides an option to the student getting the book from a shared reading list under their individual account.</span></li></ul><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Yue-Ting Siu, TVI</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Directions adapted from David Cohen, NYC Dept. of Education</em></p><h3 style="font: -apple-system-caption1; max-width: 100%;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 28px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Minimum requirements:</span></font></h3><ul style="max-width: 100%;"><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Organizational Bookshare membership (for TVI)</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Student member listed in your organization</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Understand how to search for and download a NIMAC textbook</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Understand how to unzip a file (this process differs between a Mac and PC)</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dropbox installed on the computer you will use, and on student’s laptop/iPad</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shared Dropbox folder set up between you and your student</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Download and install the program Calibre on your computer</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have Firefox on your computer. If you do not have it, download and install it.</span></li></ul><h3 style="font: -apple-system-caption1; max-width: 100%;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 28px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Part 1 – Converting the NIMAC text into an ePub to dropbox to student</span></font></h3><ol style="max-width: 100%;"><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Download the NIMAC textbook. <em style="max-width: 100%;">(Ed. note: NIMAC is the <a href="http://www.nimac.us/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; font-weight: bold;">National Instructional Materials Access Center</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span>)</em></span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unzip it – be sure you know where you unzip it! </span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Search for the file that ends in <strong style="max-width: 100%;">.xml</strong></span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right click to open with Firefox</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Save as a complete web page. Double check that the file ends in <strong style="max-width: 100%;">.html</strong></span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Close Firefox. Open Calibre</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Click on <strong style="max-width: 100%;">Add Books</strong></span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Browse for the .html file you just created and saved. Double click or click enter to add.</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Highlight the book</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Click on <strong style="max-width: 100%;">Convert Books</strong></span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Check that settings are for iPad and ePub format. Click ok.</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wait for conversion. When it finishes, click to open path</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dropbox the ePub file into the students folder. Let the student know it is there.</span></li></ol><h3 style="font: -apple-system-caption1; max-width: 100%;"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 28px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Part 2 – How the student will open the NIMAC text</span></font></h3><ol style="max-width: 100%;"><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open Dropbox folder</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open shared folder where you saved the ePub file</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open the epub</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wait for the epub to download. </span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wait for the error message “Unable to open file” – THIS IS GOOD!</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Click on the square icon with the arrow pointing in, it is usually in the upper right hand corner.</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Choose open in: iBooks (if working between several devices such as a computer and iPad or if book has images), or VoiceDream Reader (no image support, iPad only)</span></li></ol><div><a href="http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/technology/how-convert-bookshare-books-epub-dropbox-nimac-textbooks-student">http://www.pathstoliteracy.org/technology/how-convert-bookshare-books-epub-dropbox-nimac-textbooks-student</a></div><br><br></div></body></html>