Today’s presentations were amazing. I am walking away with
so many creative ideas for using Book Creator as a teaching tool myself, for
helping students show what they know and for opening lines of communication
between parents, staff and others in the community. Here are some of my
favorite standout ideas that I can see myself bringing to my classroom. My list
of ten ideas from yesterday has grown exponentially.
Joy and Nike:
Creating a Welcome Book for the School
Stand out ideas: Have students
create pages about the school rules using video, audio, pictures showing the do’s
and don’ts of the schools, create book reports and reviews, Create books for
kids who miss long periods of school, To show science fair projects, To
reflect/add to your Zones of Regulation Tool Kit, to create school technology books
to show what is available at the school or to show the accessibility options
that are available on the tools they already have.
John and Lorrianne: Multiple Classroom Uses
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Stand out ideas: Create animal books including
the sounds the animals make, Share a book that is pre-published with the
students and have them complete the activities (matching pictures, sounds, etc.),
Create a family book including audio, pictures, videos , To create flash cards,
Write your own song lyrics or write out the lyrics of a known song and add
photos, music, words to show the feelings and images that match the words,
share pre-published for mental math activities, For sharing traditional
practices from cultures in the province.
*Note: Do not use the link pages feature until all pages are created or
in their final destination
Joanne and Tracey:
Job Interview Skills!
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Standout ideas: Create a Reference Tool book with
links to each page, Create video references (videos of people saying nice
things about the student), Create practice interview questions (videos of
interviewers asking questions). To make reminder comics of hygiene, dress, behaviors.
Suzanne and Dave: Multiple Classroom Uses
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Standout ideas: Create Audio/Picture yearbooks, Make
a book showing predictions or alternative endings to a novel , Create Social
Stories (also check out the Watson
Institute website), Create videos that talk you through your explanation of how
you solved a math question (Could also make a book for parents to understand
the “new math.” Students with physical impairments could show you the steps needed
to perform a task even if they can’t do it themselves, you could show created
e-books during Parent-Teacher.
Christine and Chelsea
: Multiple Classroom Uses
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Stand out Ideas: Create I-Spy Pages, Procedural
Writing videos and pictures, using different apps to provide students with
instructions (TeleStory, Sock, Funny Movie Maker, Videoscribe, Telegami), Have
students tell/show the Beginning, Middle, End of stories, Creating punctuation
guide books , Watch video sand explain what the main ideas were, Read a story
and act it out , To write an autobiography , Create a comic Strip, To show r
how they researched an artist, To create a Safety Guide (This would enable you to assess your own teaching
as well for gaps in their learning), Teaching Fractions.
Rachel and Terry: Multiple uses for student’s assignments and as a teaching tool to guide their own practices in Upper
grades and college level
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Stand out ideas: Scrapbook – you can also add
your rubrics, Use Book Creator to provide a layout of an Elevator Pitch, to provide
or Create a Step by Step Procedure, Video Taping a Two Minute Rant , To Explain
and Show how to make spread sheets , To introduce a new topic and have student
present what they already know ( to assess what students prior knowledge as well
as their technology skills).
Michelle and Sherri:
Multiple Classroom Uses
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Stand out ideas: School Newspaper, Interactive
Cookbooks , Social stories, Collaborative class trip reflection, Student
Portfolio book , creating a science life cycle book, Interactive non-fiction
book, creating a class big book (ex. Brown Brown Bear- but use student’s
names), Interactive workbook for recycling, How to yoga pose book, Creating a
family tree using pictures, Creating a math journals (pictures or drawings),
Making videos of the student making the sounds for Phonemic Awareness, Have a
student document their trip while they are away.
Sue and Nick:
Multiple Classroom Uses
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Stand out ideas: Create alphabet books, Create a
class yearbook with audio descriptors, Student led conferences, Create a personal
dictionary (send a template and students can add to it, also add in the
spelling), sports commentating a video, visual schedules, proof-reading how to
guide.
Chris and Jill
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Stand out ideas: How-To for student’s favorite
food, Create an e-book about their family vacation (also a stay-cation or one
they would like to go on), Creating culture books, Creating a pop culture book, rock and water life cycle e-book, e-book to learn
about the provinces, Sentence starters,
Write a children’s story, Math riddles or word-problem class books.
