In this book our Visual Designer Gavin Wilshen talks through design ideas like creating a theme and a color scheme, and also shares some of the cheats and hacks he's discovered over the years!

Book Creator Top Design Tips

Check out this series of Book Creator ebooks. These experienced educators share their tips, ideas and resources to help you supercharge your lessons!

Using Book Creator in the classroom

Black And Gold Sticker by Purdue University

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EXAMPLE: Hand drawn text and illustration for the Emoji book.

In the Science classroom, students can use emojis as symbols that represent an idea or correspond to a piece of information. Infographics use symbols to help express an idea or emphasize a data point. With emojis, students can use visual representations to connect an idea to a piece of research as they prepare to share their learning with the world.

Comic panels are an excellent way of creating template pages and cropping different size images to fit. However, they are only available in Comic books!!

Simple pin-striped background with pen tool

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FULL BLEED is an edge-to-edge image, great for maximum impact but requires good quality and large images.

➽ use only the best photography in your work ➽ generally, bold and colourful photos are the most eye-catching ➽ avoid blurry, small resolution (low number of pixels) shots ➽ check copyright and/or credit authors where applicable

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The Chromebook Infused Classroom

Use the Power of Simplicity to Change Your Classroom

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Your Chromebook Infused Classroom should create conditions in which your students can develop as true learners. They need the ability to ask the big questions. They need information literacy in order to find and validate answers. Most importantly, students need to learn how to learn. As you go through this new journey with the Chromebook, keep in mind that you are moving toward a focus on process rather than the end result for true twenty-first century learning.

In this section, we will look at how to go from analog to digital in meaningful and learning-centered ways. As teachers make this journey, though, remember these three words: Keep It Simple.&nbsp; Technology in classrooms can stimulate teaching and learning but integrating technology is not always easy. For many reasons, teachers often don’t opt for a technology-infused unit. Fear and discomfort can prevent teachers from incorporating this important resource into their classrooms. Some may not know where to start or don’t know how to effectively use it. Others may even feel they don’t have time to learn it. It can also be intimidat- ing to teach Generation Z students how to use it.&nbsp;

Narrow margins: informative, text-book or novel style

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

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Use a sneaky-screenshot to overcome the dreaded blue hyperlink and underline styling

Cut-and-paste this image into any comic frame

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The pen tool is great for quickly drawing elements, highlighting, etc

Create a visual theme for each book (or series of books). This should include a limited color palette, some fonts, repeated page layouts and elements, that together create a cohesive look for your pages.

We'll look at some of these ideas over the following pages

Select an element and hit spacebar to access this useful quick menu

A similar, more limited version of this menu is also available using right-click

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Lock your elements to prevent little (or large) fingers moving things around unintentionally

Creating Journals with Book Creator: Activity Ideas for Every Classroom

One common page layout technique is to play one side of the spread against the other (juxtaposition) for maximum contrast. This works in all format books, but in particularly in portrait format where you see the full spread in edit mode.

Get around quickly, by jumping between pages (and books) using the left and right arrow keys!

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Drag-and-Drop your files straight to the page! Even better: Screenshot–Drag-and-Drop! (Mac-only?)

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Who needs to click, when you can jump! Simple but effective way to move through your book.

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Wide margins: spacious, minimal. Good for title pages and smaller amounts of info

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4-UP GRID works with any size images and can be adjusted to fit

Spread your designs across multiple pages and consider pages in 2's. Elements can even cross the spine!

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Different ways you can deal with images in your pages

No time to create your own theme? Just hit the toggle!

Using Emojis in the Classroom

Try some <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eye-dropper/hmdcmlfkchdmnmnmheododdhjedfccka/related?hl=en&amp;authuser=1">Color Picker Extensions</a> for Chrome:

Use a set margin size around your content and align elements to each other.

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3-UP GRID same principle as the 4. In fact, add or remove images as required.

Happy Back To Business Sticker by Osaka Labs

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Las Vegas Logo Sticker by Private GIPHY Channel for Assets

Illustration Love Sticker by Annabel Law Productions

Swipe Click Sticker by Edlen Proffesional

Happy Birthday Party Sticker by Planner Bee

Add some subtle movement to enhance your pages

Select a limited number of complimentary fonts for headings and body text. This sets a tone &amp; rhythm to your typography.

Ignite Creativity

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Book Creator page sizes: Landscape = 900 x 675 pixels Square = 675 x 675 pixels Portrait = 450 x 675 pixels

➽ Use equal spacing around each page to frame your content – this improves legibility.

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➽ Use the pink and green smart guides to align elements to each other and to the page. ➽ Use the edges of bounding boxes to keep spacing regular between text frames. ➽ Use the Item Position box for positional info ➽ Copy paste elements between pages to maintain positions across multiple pages.

Item position x = horizontal distance from left-hand page edge y = vertical distance from top-edge

Backgrounds are fun and you can be very playful – but don't overdo it! Stick to a limited number of colors or background styles, and always ensure text legibility is your primary concern.

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Book Creator for Teacher Librarians

All About Me Journal

Newspaper

Vocabulary Notebook

My Back to School Book (example)

Magazine

Wellbeing Journal

Diary

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<a href="https://onlinepngtools.com/change-png-opacity">https://onlinepngtools.com/change-png-opacity</a>

Use the Keyboard Accessibility features to create drawings!

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3-UP PORTRAIT GRID good for arty or magazine styles

Part of my job is to make GREAT looking books using Book Creator

The BIG Picture - A short guide to using Book Creator in education

Creative Digital Citizenship Activities with Book Creator

Pause & Think Online

The Big Book Creator Activity Book

Happy Birthday Smile Sticker by Neil Sanders

My first book, The Big Picture the content was photography and media rich, so I decided to mix this with some bold colors and hand drawn elements for a very graphic, playful feel. You can see in the Pages view how a theme began to come together, by repeating a few colours and fonts across the pages.

Getting started on a new book is always the hardest part, and I ALWAYS doubt my ability to pull it off. My best tip for this is to loosely map out the content across the pages, and then start moving things around a piece at a time, trying text and layout ideas and looking for a way in. There are always clues in the content on where to start, you just have to find them! Other less esoteric considerations: What does the content say? What is the tone of voice? Who is the audience? This development process can take time, but slowly a theme emerges and you will discover techniques which can be applied across the other pages. I call this process Content-led design.

Unimpressed Sea GIF by SpongeBob SquarePants

Book pages will most likely be read as spreads (the left-hand page alongside the right). Check Read Mode regularly during the design process to see how your pages work together.

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Paste unicode characters into the text-editor to create custom bullets in your text!

Backgrounds

Use a consistent set of background designs or colors based on your theme palette. This gives some visual variation to your pages and adds depth.

● Dog ● Cat ● Chicken ● Horse ● Monkey

➊ Dog ➋ Cat ➌ Chicken ➍ Horse ➎ Monkey

➽ Dog ➽ Cat ➽ Chicken ➽ Horse ➽ Monkey

■ Dog ■ Cat ■ Chicken ■ Horse ■ Monkey

✱ Dog ✱ Cat ✱ Chicken ✱ Horse ✱ Monkey

Copy &amp; paste from <a href="https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/geometric-shapes/">https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/geometric-shapes/</a>

Using keyboard to draw shapes and patterns

Yearbook

Use transparent PNGs in your work to layer up images over changeable backgrounds.

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INSET IMAGE bleed on one side is optional, but draws your eye into the page

Select a limited number of colours to work with. This doesn't have to be rigid, but it gives you a visual consistency throughout.

Textbook

Make a tint of your accent color to widen your colour palette.

EXAMPLE: Hand drawn elements for the Happy Theme and based on styles created for the Emoji book.

Use the elements from this page in your layouts!

Use the pen tool to add a touch of creative flair to your pages

Seth Meyers Tips GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Watch the accompanying webinar where Gavin talks through this book. Also be aware there are additional notes &amp; links to resources in the pasteboard area (off-page). REMIX the book to see those in Edit mode.

We have already done the hard work so that you don't have to! Just pick a theme, and off you go!

Simple page navigation using Noun icons to create a linkable home button on your pages

<a href="https://www.remove.bg/upload">https://www.remove.bg/upload</a>

Apparently not everyone knows about the Spacebar menu?

EXAMPLE: This book contains lot of hand drawn elements made in-app with the pen tool: from masking tape, to word higlighting, outlines, etc.

At the time of our fairy tale project, we just had a visit by Canadian author and illustrator, Barbara Reid. She is famous for her plasticine artwork. (Watch Barbara Reid's Tutorials <a href="https://barbarareid.ca/students-and-teachers/videos/">here</a>)

It inspired the students and they co-created artwork to include in this book. We photographed their plasticine art and uploaded it into Book Creator.

Final Page in book with plasticine artwork

Framed collage of student plasticine artwork

<a href="https://www.indesignskills.com/tutorials/widows-and-orphans/">Avoid widows &amp; orphans</a>

Body text – something clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Small sizes that complements your heading font. Something clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Legible at small sizes that complements your heading font.

You should also adjust your text box to improve the shape that the text creates!

Choose a typeface that suits the purpose of the project

A checklist for choosing type – Fonts Knowledge - Google Fonts

For subtitles, the same font as your heading font but smaller usually works well. Whilst body text is still something that needs to be clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Use a small size that complements your heading font. Something clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Something clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font. Clearly legible at small sizes that complements your heading font.

<a href="https://www.canva.com/learn/serif-vs-sans-serif-fonts/">https://www.canva.com/learn/serif-vs-sans-serif-fonts/</a>

IMAGE CAPTION: Don't forget your caption style! Often smaller – could also be a color or italicized?

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<a href="https://www.canva.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-font-pairing/">https://www.canva.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-font-pairing/</a>