With this app for the iPad or Android tablet students can create beautiful books to be shared on the world wide web. Using text, images, video, and narration students can tell their story or the stories of people and events studied in the social studies curriculum. This app is downloaded through Apple's App Store or on Google Play. Click on the logo above to connect with the website of the creator.
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Book Creator is, according to the publisher's website, "the number one book app in 80 countries with over 10 million books created so far." Pages from a book can be shared via Facebook or Twitter to show audiences what students have been working on. Books can be submitted to the Apple iBooks Store or Google Play Books and since they are created using the international ePub 3 standard they will be accessible worldwide for years to come.
Considerations for Exceptional Learners:
Through their book publications students could potentially help English Language Learners in other parts of the country and the world while practicing and reinforcing new vocabulary and English comprehension, making this an authentic and student-centered technological resource.
One issue that may interfere with the learning of some students with disabilities is confidence. With Book Creator, students are able to create a publication that is accessible to people all over the world, making their voice heard. Students who may feel hampered by their disability learn to become empowered through their words and their creativity.
Students identified as gifted can let their creative minds soar through Book Creator while contributing to the world of published e-books. The open quality of the program should appeal to students who are put off by too many constraints in learning and prefer starting projects from a blank slate.