ToniHammy's Computing and Teaching: My Quick Guide to Book Creator

There are so many things you can do using @BookCreator at home and in the classroom, such as:

E-books
Non-Fiction book
Fiction book
Poster
Video Diary
On going digital topic books
Learning journal

and much, much more.

I will add links to projects we have completed using book creator at the end of the guide.

Here is my quick and easy guide to getting started.

Step 1:

Ensure Book Creator has access to your photos and microphone.
Go to settings>Book Creator

Step 2:

Open App and choose your book type or size:

First Page:

Step 3: Add Items

Here you can:

Add photos from file
Take photos
Use pen
Add text
Record sound or add music

I generally like to start with a picture for posters, non-fiction text or front pages.

If this was a page in a fiction story I would request the children start with writing first, as this would be the objective of the lesson, when the writing is complete they can then add picture or photographs.

Step 4:

Change and improve font, alignment, colour, size here.

Step 5:

Sound/ Music

Step 6:

Finish

Return to My Books

Press i to change the name and details of your book.

Then your book is ready to export.

For printing I like export as a PDF, I like to email these to myself. You can save as a PDF here too.

Export as a video for posting to web. I prefer to save in camera roll, which will automatically save to my Dropbox and save to my computer

Export as ePub, to save in Dropbox or iBooks, to add to the iTunes store.

Benefits:

Visual impact
Easy to use
Can be printed for display, as poster or book
A useful tool for children to evaluate and edit their work
Save automatically to add to, for longer term projects
Alignment for text and photos - a green line will appear for you to line up in many directions
So many ways to use and project to do

What to watch out for:

Children love adding photos so if you want them to concentrate on their writing first, tell them
If adding sound, leave 1-2 seconds at the beginning and end of the recording to allow for any transition

If you want me to add anymore, let me know below. I will continually update this, as necessary.

Some of our projects: