Book Creator is a tool that facilitates the creation and reading of multimedia digital books. Students and teachers can work together inside and outside the classroom to create and publish ebooks and learning materials related to the classroom topics. The tool allows a teacher to foster creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking among students to prepare them for the real-world tasks.
The tool allows students to combine text, images, and audio and video recordings to make engaging digital books such as learning journals, comic books, and research reports. A teacher can use the student-generated content as an additional form of assessment.
Book Creator is a tool that allows a teacher and their students to create multimedia digital books, including journals, fiction or nonfiction books, how-to manuals, video and audio instructions, comic books, study guides and more. The tool’s features make it suitable for use in multiple subjects and courses. The tool’ self-publishing ebook format can encourage students to learn by allowing them to take authorship of the class materials.
A teacher can create activities with Book Creator at the beginning of the school year to build classroom community and culture. The activities might be a first introduction to technology for kindergarteners, or an opportunity to create a personal connection with middle school students through a shared learning activity. Students can include audio and video recordings as well as static photos or text in books, then students can reveal their individuality with Book Creator. A teacher can create a learning environment where their students would be collaborating with the students from another country to broaden students’ horizons about other cultures.
Book Creator can also serve as a memory aid. For example, a teacher can take images on field trips, class projects, or other activities, and produce a photo book for their students. Students can review images of the apparatus, video recordings from an experiment, or the written work and diagrams in the book. A teacher can create a template to teach vocabulary in a purposeful and engaging way.
Book Creator uses text, photographs, audio, and video recordings to create digital books, such as: interactive stories, digital portfolios, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, about me books, and comic adventures. Teachers and their students can use this tool across different classes such as math and literacy for immersion in real life experiences. For example, a teacher can use math riddles to promote critical thinking and problem solving. When finished, students become published authors and distribute the books in a variety of forms.
To use Book Creator, a teacher creates an account, and then students sign in to join the library. Book Creator is accessible on platforms and browsers including Google, Microsoft, and Apple devices. Book Creator provides a free account to store up to 40 books and 1 library. For additional book storage, the tool requires a subscription with monthly and annual options.
The tool’s features include screen readers, multiple language support, closed captions, audio transcripts, speech-to-text, and keyboard navigation. Book Creator is compliant with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The tool also supports compliance of US customers in the K-12 and postsecondary education sectors with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).