Ideas for using collaboration in Book Creator

Mark Anderson @ICTEvangelist

Ideas for using collaboration in

Book Creator!

Crowd-sourced by educators from around the world

Crowd-sourced ideas for using Book Creator for collaboration in the Classroom

Mark Anderson @ICTEvangelist

Just pick a page and then add your idea for collaboration

This was the brief opened up to educators from around the world and this is how they responded. My thanks to everyone who contributed a page and an idea to this book. Thank you!

Mark

Crowd-sourced ideas for using Book Creator for collaboration in the Classroom

Fixing book

1. Children take photographs of their written work and add it to a page in the fixing book

2. During 'fixing time' pupils find their fixing partner's work and check it for accuracy, spelling, punctuation and grammar.

3. They leave verbal or written feedback for their fixing partner.

4. Pupils check out their feedback and refine and improve their work.

Leave audio feedback next to the photograph of the work. You could also use arrows to point to specific areas of focus.

Mark Anderson @ICTEvangelist

CREATE A CLASS VOCAB BOOK (EAL/ESL)

Get the students to use their dual-coding skills to create an audio-visual dictionary of useful terms/vocabulary. A great way for getting students to interact with new content, or to create a 'Welcome to our class' guide for new students, explaining how class systems work etc...! Students can take a page each and a part of the school or curriculum and swiftly generate a comprehensive resource!

Gerard Greally @TeachMeGG

Speaking Postcards in MFL

Students build the postcard collaboratively. This can be achieved in a number of ways. For example,
1. Taking on different roles - one does words, one does speaking
2. Each student chooses the place they are going to describe to build up a spoken picture of a town, house, uniform etc.

cliquez ici pour écouter

j'espère visiter ici demain.

Notre appartement est ici - c'est super beau!

Bonjour Maman. Je vais te parler de mes vacances.... Je suis ici à Paris!

Jane Basnett @basnettj

App-tastic Review/Showcase for Students and Staff

LOVE IT!

Example

Have students (and/or staff) write app/program/website reviews to help others choose the right tool.

Each page could include a link to the resource, have a screenshot of it, or include examples how the student has used it. Could include a student tips section as well as a teacher tips section.

Skills used in each app could also be useful.

Book Creator

Student Tips
- Change the backgrounds
- Have a peer edit your book
- Record your voice reading your book
- Be creative!

Teacher Tips
- Create a template for a lesson with places for students to add videos, photos, and written reflections
- Export to Seesaw for parents to read

Skills for students:
Presentation, Collaboration, Decision Making, Writing, Reading, and more!

Cindy Kaardal @innovative_inq

Multi-Purpose Collaboration Space: Jigsawing example

I'm a big fan of using 'Jigsawing' in inquiry at school. This new feature really lends itself well to the activity should the students choose to use tech to help them with completing the task.

Each student in a group of four becomes 'the expert' for one part of a topic and takes a page in a shared book.

The experts from each group that share a part of a topic discuss and refine their findings- the shared resource is available to all experts in a group. Experts can then re-share with their own groups

The experts research and teach the other members of the group about their part of the topic- using their shared book to gather their ideas.

We're really trying to 'slim down' on the number of apps we use at school. Book Creator is already one of these core apps, but this new feature adds a new dimension to the app and will enable us to 'slim down' even more!

John Hart @jonnyade

Exploring authors and their great works collaboratively.

Learners:
- design chapters of a multitouch book about famous writers (...).
- elicit information from a variety of sources.
- structure their findings.
- produce bits and pieces of multimedia (audio, video, ...).
- actively feedback the work of their classmates.

Be creative ...

How to ...
Your chapter should contain:
a short video ... maps / a timeline ... a short biography ... sample texts / pieces of work ... links for further reading ... some creative work ...

Martin Fritze @mjfritze