Neat tool for making HTML5 animations

Oh hurrah! An actual emerging technologies post:

This is cool - Hype is an application  I've used before to do HTML5/Javascript keyframe animations. The update allows you to make animated content for iBooks Author projects. It's remarkably powerful and easy to use; especially if you've ever used Flash. HTML5/Javascript is compatible with newer browsers and with IOS devices.


If you want to see an how animation adds to the interest of a textbook, Apple iTunes is offering a free sample of E.O. Wilson's new text Life on Earth. It's really pretty spectacular. I passed my iPad around to my Advisory students last week and asked them to look at the book and comment. They were blown away and wanted me to get all of their textbooks in this format... yesterday.

"E. O. Wilson’s Life on Earth is a new digital biology textbook for high school students now under development by the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. This download includes a preview of the book and a sample chapter—“Introduction to Ecology" —that introduces students to how biologists think about the variety and patterns of life on Earth."   

Available on iTunes 

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(Disclosure Statement: I am not employed by the company that makes Hype and I own no shares in it though I probably should. I do have a few shares of Apple and wish I had about ten thousand more at the moment.)