Amadeus Book Creator Challenge

Now that you know your way around Book Creator let’s see if we get a bit creative...

In this level you will learn how to create page layouts with balance, alignment, and consistency. This will be achieved by using and modifying the Panels templates, using guidelines, and formatting text correctly.

You are now an Essential User of Book Creator!

- Tap on the + button to add an item to the page. This time choose the media tab and you are going to now insert a drawing. - This opens another window over the current page. You can change the line colour/thickness and eraser if necessary.

Just be aware that once you press done you can’t edit it!

- Tap on the + button to add an item to the page. Within this menu there are three tabs. - Choose the shapes tab and insert a star to this page. - With the star selected choose the format menu and copy these settings. Play around and add a few other shapes!

Below are two pages from a Book Creator Journal. They both have identical text and images. Page A has all elements spaced and aligned: the text colour, size, and font is also formatted correctly. Can you spot the layout differences? There are at least 10!

Now, over the next page are all the media elements. Can you edit them to look like Page A?

You are now an Advanced Creative of Book Creator!

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HINTS Text can be aligned left, centre, and right with the format menu, AND the text box can align to other elements using the guides. All elements are locked. You will have to unlock them before you begin. Hold the element down and select “unlock”. Delete this text box and begin!

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This is where I am going to write all my most important information. This is all terribly exciting and fantastic. Vienna is incredibly beautiful even in winter. Here you can see a few pictures of what we did during the break including 5 trips to the Art History Museum which is now my most favourite place!

Now take everything you have learnt about page layout and make a new page. Choose a panel template to start on the right foot but don’t be afraid to edit them. Delete everything on this page before beginning...

This final level is about making your book come to life with multimedia content.

On the Book Creator website, have a look at the Resources for teachers section. It is full of real classroom examples that you can read about and maybe use yourself. Always make the project yourself before giving it to the kids yet don’t be surprised if they take it another step further :)

You are now a Publishing Rockstar of Book Creator!

The Amadeus Book Creator Challenge!

Book can either be a Regular or Comic format. Our book for this challenge is in the comic format. Level 2 will show you why...

This allows you to take a picture and immediately insert it into the frame. Try taking a picture now.

This allows you to insert pictures to this frame from your library.

This page has been created using the Panel templates in the Comic menu. Each square image frame has a task to complete. Good Luck!

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Delete this text by holding down and selecting “cut”, then use two fingers to zoom in and rotate the image within the frame.

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Delete this text by holding down and selecting “cut” and then do the same to the frame beneath.

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Delete this text by holding down and selecting “cut”. Then hold down on the image frame and select “unlock”. Edit/resize the frame to take up the space to the right.

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Delete this text by holding down and selecting “cut”, do the same to the image/frame below then add a text box.

- Tap on the + button to add an item to the page. This time choose the media tab and you are going add two items: a) First choose photo for access to images/video from library b) Then choose camera to take live image (no image editing options)

- Tap on the + button to add an item to the page. - Choose the Media tab and insert a text box. - Add Text to the pop up window and press done. - With the text box selected choose the formatting menu and copy these settings.

- Tap on the + button to add an item to the page. - Choose the media tab and insert sound. - Press the red button to Record. When you stop you have the option to end the recording or add to it. - When complete, the recording will display as a audio button as shown here.

As in other applications on both desktop and mobile devices, Book Creator has guidelines to help you align elements on a page. Below is a square. Copy the square by holding down, select “copy”, and the “paste” the square twice onto the page. Using the guides; align one in the centre, one along the left margin, and the last along the right margin. 

Welcome to the Amadeus Book Creator Challenge!

Over the next hour you are going to work through a series of tasks to achieve a proficiency level in Book Creator:

Everything you need to know is in this book. Good luck!

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