the ins and outs of book creator

1. Open the Book Creator app and spend about 5-10 minutes reviewing the Getting Started book.

2. The directions for the activity have been uploaded to Google Drive as an eBook. From your iPad, open Safari and go to tinyurl.com/STSDbook. Download the book and open it in Book Creator.

What does a finished product look like?

Monitoring Comprehension

Your challenge is to create a five-scene story – one scene per page – that follows the story arc on the next page. (Flip to the next page to preview the story arc and then flip back.)

For each scene, include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page’s content. (Tip: Before adding photographs to your book, you can edit them in a photo editing app.)

Prior to the first page/scene, include a title page. After the final page/scene, include a credits page. Your title and credits should be created by (1) using the pen tool, (2) adding text, and/or (3) adding shapes.

To help you: Each page of your directions/book is labeled with its requirements. (Delete as you go.) Feel free to refer back to the Getting Started book.

Once you’re done, delete this page and the next, change the title and author of your book (whatever you think is best), and export it as an ePub to the iBooks app. (The iBooks app is your “digital bookshelf” and where you’ll go to read published books.) Finally, let’s have a viewing party!

Title: Use the pen tool, add text, and/or add shapes

Setup: Introduce the characters and story setting

Include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page's content.

Conflict: Create a problem for your main character

Include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page's content.

Challenge: Make the problem even more difficult

Include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page's content.

Climax: Help the main character solve the problem

Include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page's content.

Resolution: Show that the problem has been settled

Include (1) an original photo and (2) an original sound that enhances the page's content.

Credits: Use the pen tool, add text, and/or add shapes

What can my students do with it?

tinyurl.com/STSDpadlet

How can we publish our books?

Apple FAQ

The Giant Panda

How can it app smash with iMovie?

redjumper.net/blog

Thank You!