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