Digital Bytes – 19th June 2017

  Book Creator Summer Journal A fantastic way to remember some of the details from your summer is to keep a journal. Last summer, both my kids used Book Creator to capture some of the things that happened on a daily basis. It was great for photos and video and voice records. Pages, Keynote and…

Summer Book Creator Journal

As a kid, there were times when I kept a journal on and off. Sometimes those journals were longer pieces of writing and others they were bullet points of things I did. Regardless of the format, I always loved looking back at my journals and remembering many of the different things that I did over…

The No-Stress Way to Remove Backgrounds from Images

I love what Photoshop can do with removing backgrounds from images, but it is complicated to use, and not available on the iPad. I wanted something that even our youngest students could use to level-up the quality of their Book Creator books. Thankfully, my colleague Dave Caleb discovered the iPad app Photoshop Mix. This incredibly…

Top 10 Tips for Tech and Travel

Travel Journals using Book Creator What a great way to have a record of your summer vacation! Spice up the regular travel diary with Book Creator. Kids will have fun writing a daily log of their travels and including recorded sounds, photos and videos. Google Maps Offline I can’t imagine my world without Google Maps…

Digital Bytes – May 16, 2016

Great Apps for Book Creator Book Creator is a fantastic app and one that we use across many of our grade levels. This page shares 11 great apps that you can use in conjunction with Book Creator. There are some great examples like creating animations in Explain Everything and then importing those movies into Book…

Grade 1 Poetry Books using Book Creator

Our Grade 1 students have been thoroughly enjoying their poetry unit. They have looked at the poems of different authors, tried to emulate their style, and have create their very own poems. We wanted to capture the beautiful poems the students had written, so we decided to make an eBook with Book Creator. The added…