Saturday, December 28, 2013

Rudolph Stories in Book Creator

This past week at school we had many festive activities as we approached Christmas break.  On our reindeer day we read several fiction and nonfiction reindeer books. 
 

Then we began to create our own reindeer stories to publish in the Book Creator app on the iPads.  We have the free version of the Book Creator app.  It allows you to create one book at a time.
First we used a graphic organizer to plan each page of our story.
This was our first time using the book creator app.  The students caught on to the tools within the app very quickly.
The students found it very easy to use the drawing tools within the app to add details to their pictures.
They were thrilled to make a cover for their stories.
When the books were complete, we exported them to the Explain Everything app.  In this app, the students recorded themselves reading each page of their stories.  We then saved this project as a video to the camera roll so we could upload them to our Kidblogs.

Here are a few of the finished stories. They are very simple stories since this was our first time using the app.  I'm hoping our next books will contain more details.
 

 





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