Book Creator
In Evergreen Public Schools each teacher has access to Book Creator. Simply log in with your district Google Account or access through ClassLink This access allows for you to create unlimited libraries where you and your students can create up to 1,000 books. The Book Creator program has the ability to add text, video, audio, images, and more to the pages. With the versatility of the tool, it can become an integral piece of our maintenance learning routine.
Unlimited Possibilities!
Are you wondering how you are going to be able to reach all of your learners? Are you wondering how you will ensure that students can access text or content that you would like for them to engage with and think about? Then Book Creator can be the tool for you during this unique teaching and learning time. You can create a virtual work book where you have video lessons, text resources and audio clips of you reading the text. Students can make a copy of the book and use the empty pages to respond and record their thinking. Give your students access to a library in Book Creator and encourage them to write. Perhaps encourage them to journal about what is happening around them, tracking their reading, looking for evidence of everyday math. The possibilities are endless.
Planning for Use
Who is going to do the creating?
There are three options for your use of Book Creator. You can create a book for your students, they can create a book for you, or you can create a collaborative book together. In the video to the right, I will share some ideas of what this might look like. You can also look at some examples below.
Examples of Tool Use
This collaborative book has each student drawing and writing on their own page to create a class book.
In this sample book, the student is annotating through labels, audio, and video the images she has taken of the text as she reads.
This is a humorus example of how students can demonstrate understanding of a skill using Book Creator.
You can create books for your students to access from home. This Google Doc has links to K-5 STEMscopes content books. The content from STEMscopes was put into a Book Creator book to increase access, and allow for layering in support for our readers. Please feel free to use the links to these books with EPS students only.
Tool Resources
Invite students to your library with a code
Embed content from other sites
Working with template books
How to publish your books to share
Student Tutorial
This educator has done a nice job showing students and parents how to engage with Book Creator for the first time. It walks through how they log in, copy books, and a simple review of the menu options.
Feedback
Your Choice
With Book Creator, you have edit access to all of the student books created in your library. You can leave audio feedback to students, or create a video of yourself giving the students feedback. You can add your own text box and add it to the page. You might think about creating a feedback protocol for the books. For example, you ask the students to leave a space for you to add your feedback, or you add a page to their book so that you don't detract from the aesthetics of their design.