Sunday, December 15, 2013

App of the Day: Book Creator

Book Creator app for iPad ($4.99)...the #1 book app in 60 countries. It is an easy platform for creating epub books. Bring books to life by adding text, images, video, music and narration to tell the whole story. Submit books to iBookstore, read in iBooks or email to friends. Teachers and students can edit and annotate each other’s books with the “combine books" feature.


Watch this short video to see how easy it is.


Book Creator for the iPad from Book Creator for iPad on Vimeo.

Applications for Education: 
Book Creator is a great way for to demonstrate student understanding through student created work. Ideas for using Book Creator: individual projects then combine into one final project, create student reviews and combine into final class review, create book reviews, show and tell projects, timeline projects, digital storytelling, and much more. 

Benefits of Using Book Creator:
☆ Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
☆ Import pictures or videos from camera roll, (ex. iMovie movies created)
☆ Record audio within the app
☆ Draw or write with freehand tools
☆ Add text using all the iPad fonts
☆ Send books to Dropbox, other WebDav servers (ex. Google Drive), iTunes to your computer or email
☆ Click here for Book Creator tutorials.
☆ Free version of Book Creator...click here