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Bookcreator tech reflection



I’ve made eBooks before in the past. I collaborated with 1st/2nd grade teachers to create a school ABC book. Each student picked a letter from the alphabet, picked something at our school that began with that letter, wrote a short paragraph about that thing and why it was important to our school, took a picture of it, and then created one of the pages on our shared eBook using Book Creator. It was a lot of fun and the books came out great.


For this eBook, I decided to write a picture book based on true stories that my mother likes to tell. There is an introductory video on the first page of the book to explain this as well. I decided to do this for two reasons. One was to send to my mom and the other was an example of writing a narrative fiction story for 3rd/4th grade writing unit.


I really love using Book Creator. I think it is fairly easy to use, looks professional at the end, and uses so many different modalities it is engaging for all students. My biggest challenge is that I’m horrible at drawing. I played with the drawing tool but mostly used copyright free images from the built in image search feature.


I think that making eBooks after any writing assignment can make it feel authentic and fun. I can see using it for students to share their learning or for teachers to use in a flipped classroom type approach.


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