Book Creator
Year Level – 1-6
Source – iPad Application
About
This intuitive and easy to learn app lets children (and adults) get into creating content to match the real world style that they are aiming for. Its title may say ‘Books’ but really any type of written production could be output from it. Text can be manipulated into headlines for newspaper articles; diagrams can be stacked, overlaid and adjusted to create diagram rich how-to guides.
The app is not a fully featured desk top publishing solution and nor should it be. The developers of Book Creator have carefully distilled down the most essential parts of layout software to make an app that can be mastered in just a short amount of time, allowing content creation to come to the fore, rather than the learning of the software. Should there be any difficulties, this is an app with a very well realised supporting website that answered every question that I had.
I was able to use Book Creator during my ATP for a year 1 class during procedure writing. After 15 minutes of direct instructions, all students were able to navigate their way through all features within the application.
Strands: Digital Technologies
Sub strand:
General Capabilities: Develop, communicate and discuss design ideas through describing, drawing, modeling and/or a sequence of steps
Literacy – the students need to be able to effectively put titles, labels etc on the graph
Information and Communication Technology(ICT) – students will be using ICT to complete their interactive book.
Integrated Learning Opportunities:
English, Mathematics, Geography, PE, Science
Cost: free with limited features
Link: https://bookcreator.com/
Regards,
John Greenham
Enter Book Creator looks like a very useful app to have within the classroom! I like that you have experience using it within the classroom and it was effectively used by your Year 1 class. It’s also always helpful to have an extensive supporting website like you mentioned. Thanks for including the cross-curricular areas this app could be used in. This is a great post and I’ll look to use this app in my future teaching practices.
Great blog John! This app seems to be a great way to encourage students to easily create newspaper articles in a simple format. I like the way you have presented this idea and attached a video trailer. Informative though straight to the point.