Creativity Abounds with Book Creator!

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-Flipped Classroom Model -Student Presentations/Projects -Project Based Assessments

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"Book Creator is an easy-to-use tool for making multimedia digital books in any subject area." Create: combine text, audio, video, drawings, photos and other content! Read: have your book read to you in multiple languages, with word highlighting and page-turning. Publish: share your book online, download as an ePub file or print it as a PDF."-<a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/articles/3557585-what-is-book-creator">Book Creator website</a>

Book Creator - "Its game changing for education"

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Picture of flipped classroom model. Before class students get the work, in the classroom they apply the content then after class they do learning activities.

Image from: <a href="https://designinginstructionwithk.com/2019/06/13/flipped-classroom-approach/">https://designinginstructionwithk.com/2019/06/13/flipped-classroom-approach/</a>

<a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/pzokauvYtvXmrxG21qmkv3nKFTh1/CpFZo3PyTwyuEk8XzxEuhg">Example of materials shared with students before class</a>

<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C1FM2upJtAMSN3y1GV3M-KXCJ9P4hpUim3udgARO8uk/edit?usp=sharing">A picture tutorial that shows how to add content to your book</a> <a href="https://bookcreator.com/support/">Support pages for Book Creator</a> Learn more about: <a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/articles/2398637-publishing-your-book-online-with-book-creator">Publishing books</a> <a href="https://bookcreator.com/privacy-policy/">Privacy</a>

Evaluate sessions and win! Navigate to specific session to evaluate, select evaluate session on session details screen, complete session evaluation. 

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The i button is the all important button you click to make changes to any item added to a page. 

<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15B9CG0WUBp_ANM85dP5fPduGAJSQnOx6jZwd3hLDA0Q/edit?usp=sharing">Book Creator Checklist</a>

Gold Standard PBL: authenticity, student voice, reflection, critique, public product, challenge questions sustained inquiry

Project Based Assessment with Book Creator

One of my colleagues had her students use Book Creator to create their own Open Educational Resources for the course. Students chose a topic they were interested in, they had to conduct the research on the topic, gather the material, evaluate the validity of the material and then finally put their materials together into a book. The professor was then able to combine all the individual student books as one book that would be used for other classes.&nbsp;

Image from: <a href="https://www.pblworks.org/what-is-pbl/gold-standard-project-design">https://www.pblworks.org/what-is-pbl/gold-standard-project-design</a>

Full Disclosure: I am a <a href="https://bookcreator.com/ambassadors/">Book Creator Ambassador</a>

As such: -I receive no compensation from Book Creator to talk about their product. -I actively encourage colleagues to learn about the app and help them where I can – face to face, and online. - I participate in beta testing and contribute feedback and ideas to the Book Creator basecamp.

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Instead of having my students write long reports, I have them use Book Creator to provide their feedback and their understanding of different concepts. 

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<a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/pzokauvYtvXmrxG21qmkv3nKFTh1/U6mAwVHaRAmMKkax7xUVww">Example of student work</a>

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Creativity Abounds! Flipping the Classroom and Project Based Assessments with Book Creator!

By Wendy Torres Senior Instructional Technologist Coppin State University Twitter handle: @Tech_snacks E-mail: wvelez-torres@coppin.edu <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6TS6udK-ucDLoAAelw5o_1HEBer2gFVIC6YmLdqUYI/edit?usp=sharing">Text version and references</a>

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Your Turn..... Let's start by making a Book Creator Account.

First go to <a href="https://app.bookcreator.com/">https://app.bookcreator.com</a> Click on Teacher Sign in. Then select an email you want to use to sign in. You can use an active gmail account, office 365 e-mail or another e-mail. After putting your e-mail information in you automatically get the free account ( 2 libraries 40 books each) and are ready to start creating.

Image of Book creator site. app.bookcreator.com

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My students also had to use Book Creator to create their own interactive study guides, as well as document key take-aways from site visits.

Sample site visit report

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<a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/pzokauvYtvXmrxG21qmkv3nKFTh1/G6BUrUShSYSK4bobuZ66DQ">Sample site visit report</a>

<a href="https://read.bookcreator.com/pzokauvYtvXmrxG21qmkv3nKFTh1/G6BUrUShSYSK4bobuZ66DQ">Example of student report</a>

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Electric - 10 Minute Countdown

comic with three panels . In the first panel a student is taking notes actively. The next panel shows a graph showing the student's comprehension after 45 drop significantly last panel shows students saying Bluh what?

Comic by <a href="http://jorgecham.com/">Jorge Cham</a> Twitter handle: @phdcomics

Once you make your account, let's join a shared library. This will be a space where you can practice making books without using up your 40 book limit ( 2 libraries, 40 books each)

Click on new book. Pick your layout. Start adding content to your book by clicking the plus sign.

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-Free (With available <a href="https://bookcreator.com/pricing/">paid plans</a> as well) -Easy to use -Cloud-Based: nothing to install -Can be integrated into any <a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/articles/2433533-adding-book-creator-to-your-lms">LMS</a> -<a href="https://intercom.help/bookcreator/en/collections/2172907-accessibility">Accessible</a>

Want to know how Book Creator scored on the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qy-a46EFdDFdFQMBCYcA232gVGsPztgS/view?usp=sharing">Accessibility Score Card?</a>

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