Students and Teacher Want to take their already created content and turn it into an e- Book to share with parents, grandparents and the community who own e-Readers. Book Review Anthology Any Unit of Study Poem Anthology Visual Quotes Collection Create your own TExtbook Essay Collection Drawing Painting Collection Portfolio Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano ~ Langwitches ~ GloballyConnectedLearning.com With one Classroom iPad: Each student waits their turn to create a pre-determined amount of page (s). With a Classroom Set of iPads: Follow the following ( 7) Steps to collaboratively create one classroom eBook (Example created with BookCreator app) BookCreator eBook Creator Creative Book Builder
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Students and Teacher Want to take their already created content and turn it into an e-Book to share with parents, grandparents and the community who own e-Readers.
Search for public Domain or Creative Commons images on the web (Via Safari).
Save the image to the iPad Photo Gallery by holding a finger for a few seconds on the image until a drop down list pops up
CHOOSE "SAVE IMAGE". THIS WILL AUTOMATICALLY PLACE THE IMAGE INTO THE PHOTO GALLERY
YOU CAN ALSO TAKE A PICTURE WITH THE IPAD'S BUILT IN CAMERA (IPAD2). THAT AUTOMATICALLY PLACES THE TAKEN IMAGE INTO THE PHOTO GALLERY. THIS WORKS WELL, IF STUDENTS ILLUSTRATED A PICTURE ON PAPER THAT YOU WANT TO INCLUDE INTO THE BOOK.
iOS5 allows you to edit your images directly in the Photo Gallery. Students can rotate, enhance, take Red-Eyes out and crop their image before inserting it into their BookCreator Page.
To insert an image into the BookCreator app, tap the icon on the top right of the app and choose the image from the camera roll.
To copy and past, simply go to the text that you want to copy,hold you finger on the text for a few seconds, choose selector select all, then choose copy. Go backto the text field in BookCreator, hold your finger down in the text field for a few seconds and tap the paste bubble to insert the copied text.
You can also edit the background color of the page, by tapping the “i” when there is no text nor image selected.
6.Once students have created their page(s), they will take a screenshot of each page, edit the image and email them to the teacher. He/She will collect all the images in Order to create a “main” book, with the BookCreator app, on a specified “main” iPad.
Taking a screenshot: Hold down the On/Off button at the same time as the “Home” button. You will hear the sound of an image taken as well as see the screen disappear for just a second and then return.
• The image just taken is automatically placed into the iPad’s Photo Gallery.
• Tap “Edit” and choose “Crop” to format the image to include ONLY the page. Drag the four corners of the crop box to crop out the time, etc on top bar as well as the arrows on the left or right side. Choose crop then save.
Once the image is cropped, it is ready to send as an e-mail attachment to the “main” iPad. The “main” iPad is the one that will pull in all the individual student pages and create the final copy of the eBook.
• Tap anywhere on the image. A top navigation bar will pop up for a few moments. If you lose it, simple tap the image again.• Tap on the icon with the arrow on the top right of the Photo Gallery, then choose “Email Photo”.