Em's Ever Evolving Erudition

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 challeng...

I love eBooks.  I love reading physical books too as there is muscle memory that feels comforting and familiar.  When reading for pleasure, I will often choose a physical book for this reason.  BUT there are many reasons I will opt for an eBook instead.  When traveling, it is much easier to bring my device loaded with eBooks than shoulder the weight of many books in my bag for example.  When engaged in reading for learning, eBooks are best.  For any class I take, I will always purchase the eBook version of required texts if they are available.   Being able to highlight and annotate what I'm reading and then having the app automatically gather these notes in one place to review is a life saver.  I can quickly find the passage I need when writing or look up word meanings or even directly search the internet to further my learning of a new idea.  An added benefit is that all of my books are in the cloud so I can use any...