By: Cami Guidry and Hollie Crabtree
This app is a way for teachers and students to create books. It is a different way for teachers to deliver material, and students can create projects and learn in a variety of different ways. This app has lots of features such as different book styles, fonts, colors, themes, recordings, photos, and stickers. This is an app that allows students to be very creative and is a fun, different way to discover new topics and lessons in every subject. The possibilities are endless.
*Shhh... It includes a cheat
This app is beneficial for the simple reason that it is a new, fun, creative way to teach and learn lessons. Technology, like IPads and Chromebooks, are being placed into classrooms all over the U.S; therefore, this app can be a way to integrate this technology into the classroom. This is also a way for students to listen to stories, learn grammar, math, science, and social studies; it is an app that is great across the curriculum. Students will have the availability to create their own books or comic books based on information learned in class, and they can work in groups to complete them too. This can be another way to create book reports, projects, and more. This can help students with different learning styles, because of the multiple features that are present, such as the recorder for listening, resulting in a differential way of learning. This app is indeed beneficial to classrooms across the US in every subject.
Pros:
Cons:
1. Am I able to join a library on the iPad so the books are accessible from the computer?
* Install Chrome on the iPad and access the app online at app.bookcreator.com instead.
2. Why won't online versions open in Safari ?
* The makers are focusing on Chrome right now; therefore, this is the best way to access the app.
3. How to combine books?
4. I want the students to create a page that will later be combined into one class book, do they need to create a title page and page 1 of the book or could the title page be used as the page to combine?
* You can just create the title page. But remember that every new book starts with 3 pages, so you may want to get kids to delete the two they don't use before they send it to you. Also, make sure everyone is using the same page layout.
3.MD.E.9 Solve word problems involving pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and bills greater than one dollar, using the dollar and cent symbols appropriately.
Activity:
The teacher will make an interactive story that would be full of word problems for the students to figure out. It would be in a story format. The story would be about a boy and a girl buying Christmas gifts for their family, and they have only so much money to spend. At each location the boy and girl need to figure out how much money it cost and how much to give the cashier. The students in the classroom would try to figure it out at their desk before the next page which shows what happened. After, the students will be able to make their own word problem on a shared book, and the end result would be a class story with money word problems.
W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Activity:
The students will create a story/book about their favorite vacation. It will be written beforehand throughout the week, and once written, the students will get on the IPads and make their story. It will include the place they went, who went, two activities they did, if they liked it or not, and a closing. It will also include pictures and videos if they would like. This is similar to writing an essay, except it is in a cool, creative form.