Class 11: Teach with Book Creator

Featured image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

In this class we will explore Book Creator – a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins. Combine text, shapes, images, audio and video to make a book that can be viewed online or printed out. There is a paid iPad app, but you can also use the free online version in Safari or Chrome browser.

With a free account, you can get 1 library and create up to 40 books to use in your classroom. There’s no cost per student, and there’s no limit on the number of students that can join a teacher’s library. Also you can delete unused books and keep going.

For this lesson, you should log into Book Creator Online and sign up for a free Teacher Account.

It’s a very easy app to use. Start a new book. I recommend a Landscape 4:3 Comic book. Looks good on computer screen and you to get comic elements even if you don’t use a comic book grid.

Here’s a quick intro to adding media, comic, shapes and backgrounds for your paper.

Add media
Choose to make a comic and get these extra options.
Add shapes
Click on page and get lots of backgrounds, borders and patterns

Assignment 10: Create a Book | Book Lesson 22-A11

Use Book Creator to make a book and embed in your post. Your book could either be a resource for students to use or a model for books students would make. Or you might want to make something to share with parents.

Have fun with it. Tell a story or create a lesson or resource for students. You could convert your Google site or re-purpose some of you previous posts into a book.

Embed your finished book into a WordPress post that includes a written description of the audience and purpose of your book.
As always, be sure to include a featured image and clever title for your post.

The book should be a minimum of 8-10 pages. Try a variety of content:

Text, shapes, sticker, backgrounds.
Photos: your own or from the built in public domain search
Google map, video and a recording
Embedded content from another source (for example a pre or post quiz on a Google form)

RESOURCES

How to get started with Book Creator

Left: Screen shot of presentation settings

How to get an embed code to use with WordPress “Custom HTML” block

Below left: sample embedded book with lots of ideas. You’ll see how it displays online with page flips. Below right: Guide to embedding content from other sources.