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How to make a digital textbook is more than just a glorified PDF in a pill? KNO, Tablet, textbooks company co-founder Osman Rashid, Chegg rolling out multiple functions to try to bring textbooks to life, including Facebook integration, automated quiz, activity stream music. However, updating its iPad app today indicates as digital textbooks, you can create a totally new experience from a static value. In the above Vidå Rashid shows me Kno in 3D modeling function.
3D function now works only with models of molecules in chemistry textbooks. It converts standard chemical notation that indicates how the atoms are bonded together in a molecule in 3D model spinning along the field. These 3D models can be extended and rotated gave students demonstrate how each of them.
Of all the new features, Rasheed showed me this one impressed me the most because taking the initial text and make it a wealth of experience on the iPad Kno. You can't do that on paper. And you can imagine the 3D model appears on other types of 2D content, such as engineering drawings, diagrams or other types of illustrations.
KNO introduces several other functions today as well, the video sticky notes and smart links. Textbooks KNO include "magazine" who s thread highlights, notes, audio notes, and photographs. Now you can add video clips, recorded directly from the camera, iPad a. Smart links also lead to more videos in each tutorial, but as you read. They will initially Khan Academy video, but will in future include other educational videos online.
Below is a video of QuizMe and magazine capacity, earlier this month.
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