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Book Creator® app for iPad

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Subject:  Technologies

Strand: Digital Technologies

Year Level: 2 – 6

Platforms: iPad

Description: Book Creator by Red Jumper is a fantastic and easy way to create and publish wonderful ebooks from your iPad. Book Creator allows students to create and publish a variety of books including story books, journals, photo books, text books, comic books, children’s picture books and many more. The app is highly engaging and allows students across all year levels to publish work they have produced in any subject area such as English, Science, HASS and The Arts. Students can work individually or collaboratively in small groups to create different types of books. The app can even be used to produce a teacher led whole class project/unit of work. By publishing their work into different book styles, students are able to share their books as digital resources with other students in their class and throughout the school. They are even able to publish their books to the iBooks Store!

**Winner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award  **THE No.1 Book app for the iPad in 80 countries **Voted Best Educational App in the 2015 BETT Awards.

Features: The app has a huge variety of features that are appropriate for all ages and provide students with the opportunity to produce books to a high standard. Features include: Over 50 font options, upload photos and images from the web, iPad or iPad camera, add music, video and voice recording (narration), choose from a variety of book sizes and layouts, page turning animations, background music, built in dictionary and bookmarks.

How to / Resource Links:

Book Creator® for iPad – Introduction:

  • Tutorial – Creating a book using Book Creator:

  • Creating a Comic Book – example:

Learning Area Structure (Year 2 – 6): 

Knowledge and Understanding

  • Digital systems
    • the components of digital systems: hardware, software and networks and their use

    Representation of data

    • how data are represented and structured symbolically

Processes and Production Skills

  • Collecting, managing and analysing data. Creating digital solutions by:
    • investigating and defining
    • generating and designing
    • producing and implementing
    • evaluating
    • collaborating and managing

Sub-strands and Content Descriptors (From Year 2 – 6):  http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/digital-technologies/curriculum/f-10?layout=1

References:

Book Creator®. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/

Book Creator® Videos. (2016). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/user/bookcreatorapp/videos

Technologies Curriculum Learning Area Structure. (2016). Retrieved from Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority website: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/structure

Find App Here:

Apple iTunes Store: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/book-creator-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8