Book Creator App for Apple IPAD
Tool:Book Creator App
Source: Apple IPAD via Apple Store
Price: Free for the lite version or 4.99 for full version
Rating: 4 out 5 stars
Review:This app is incredibly simple to learn how to use. The layout of the tools in the toolbar can be easily found, even on a touchscreen interface. An improvement would be to include a "help" bar that would assist the user in making digital books. This would make it even more user-friendly.
Because of the many design options, the user is engaged with the app. It is very relevant to the skill of digital story-writing and book-making. Overall, It is innovative and fits well within the technology of this time.
ISTE Standard #1: Facilitate and Inspire learning and creativity
a.Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and
creative processes
d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual
environments.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
ABOUT THE APP:
Book Creator, the simple way to create beautiful books on your tablet! This app allows people to create, share, and publish their books. You can take pictures and edit them by adding graphics, custom drawings, voice memos, and text. More is probably offered on the purchased Book Creator but there are still a lot of options for the Book Creator Lite. Thanks to the multi-touch technology, several people can work with this app at the same time.
How Book Creator works in the classroom:
This app is a great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms especially considering the use of technology is becoming more and more prevalent in schools today. Teachers can use Book Creator to hone in 21st Century Skills such as digital media creation, and encourage student creativity. Ebooks are becoming a fast trend among schools today. This app can help students develop their skills in writing, creating and reading Ebooks, in addition to improving other English/ Language Arts skills.This tool is a great way for teachers help their students to apply their own creativity while also practicing their writing skills!
Tool:Book Creator App
Source: Apple IPAD via Apple Store
Price: Free for the lite version or 4.99 for full version
Rating: 4 out 5 stars
Review:This app is incredibly simple to learn how to use. The layout of the tools in the toolbar can be easily found, even on a touchscreen interface. An improvement would be to include a "help" bar that would assist the user in making digital books. This would make it even more user-friendly.
Because of the many design options, the user is engaged with the app. It is very relevant to the skill of digital story-writing and book-making. Overall, It is innovative and fits well within the technology of this time.
ISTE Standard #1: Facilitate and Inspire learning and creativity
a.Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and
creative processes
d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual
environments.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B
Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.E
Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
ABOUT THE APP:
Book Creator, the simple way to create beautiful books on your tablet! This app allows people to create, share, and publish their books. You can take pictures and edit them by adding graphics, custom drawings, voice memos, and text. More is probably offered on the purchased Book Creator but there are still a lot of options for the Book Creator Lite. Thanks to the multi-touch technology, several people can work with this app at the same time.
How Book Creator works in the classroom:
This app is a great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms especially considering the use of technology is becoming more and more prevalent in schools today. Teachers can use Book Creator to hone in 21st Century Skills such as digital media creation, and encourage student creativity. Ebooks are becoming a fast trend among schools today. This app can help students develop their skills in writing, creating and reading Ebooks, in addition to improving other English/ Language Arts skills.This tool is a great way for teachers help their students to apply their own creativity while also practicing their writing skills!