Class #11 – Book Creator Presentations:

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

ð  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!

ð  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

ð  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

ð  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

ð  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

ð  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

ð  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

ð  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.