Week 12- Book Creator
Week 12- BookCreator
Create. Read, Publish with book creator the digital notebook
for the 21st century classroom.
According to their website “book creator is open-ended,
creative, and cross curriculum. Create your own teaching resources or have your
students take the reins.” This program allows you to combine text, images,
audio, and video to creat:
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interactive stories
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digital portfolios
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research journals
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poetry books
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science reports
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instruction manuals
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‘about me’ book
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comic adventures
Students or teachers can create a ebook using this app. It
allows individuals to import pictures or art into the pages. Imagine taking the
books that teachers make with their class for example all about me books.
Instead of hving them in paper and bound Book creator allows for a
technological alternative to a classroom book. Another use for this app could
be if a lesson is being taught on a culturally or location specific topic and
the teacher can’t find a book on it. With Book Creator they can create their
own.
Pros
Publish to an authentic audience
Engage reluctant writers
Demonstrate understanding
Promote collaboration
Set a purpose for learning
Available fro chrome books or apple products
Good free option
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1 library with up to 40 books
Discounts for schools and districts
Available for ipad for $4.99
Students can record themselves reading the book.
Cons
Not sure if they books can be viewed from any where
Learning curve to create books
Not completely free
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$60/year/teacher- 3 libraries, 60 books each,
reatime collaboration
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$120/year/teacher- 10 libraries, 1oo books in
each, realtime collaboration
video of example book with recording of story- with pictures
of author as illustrations
https://read.bookcreator.com/aWAhdfUWXPQR1UPW7fJOHnfObsb2/AzNpqo-hTauGJZe7jD036A
This app seems really fun. I would definitely use it with
older students, maybe 2nd grade and up. It seems like a great final
project idea for a research paper or project. This is definitely something I
would like to use in my own classroom.
That is really cool. That is one of the apps that we have available to us at our school. I didn't even think about using it this year. I like how you can incorporate using paint on the iPad for making the illustrations. It also works on the students keyboarding skills. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteI love this! I checked it out a little, and I saw that you could make comics too. My kids would love that, I think. I might have to try this with my kids before school is out!
ReplyDeleteWow, the example you linked was incredible. What a great way to get students interested in writing stories. Fun and easy enough for almost any age.
ReplyDeleteHow cool - I had wondered about programs where you could basically put together an entire book. I love that it lets you use graphics too! And of course, anything that is free. Is there a limit to length?
ReplyDeleteThis is very neat! I took a digital storytelling class last year and this would've been a perfect tool for that kind of course. I like the idea of having students create their own stories - that seems like a good way to push the lesson into higher levels of Bloom's.
ReplyDeleteI think this would be awesome for poetry. I was surprised how much my fourth graders enjoyed reading and writing poetry this year. I also like that I could have up to 40 books, since I have 34 students in my class. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteAwesome resource, it sorta reminds me of an old OS app called iBooks Author. I have gone through reams of paper this year with some of my students. They have been creating their own books to add to our class library. I love the idea of them creating digital books, perhaps we could even write one about saving the environment for Earth Day!
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