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Using Book Creator

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A3 sized PDF poster - revision 2.0, published 2017


Description

Book Creator is an intuitive and easy to learn app for creating your own eBooks and has many applications for those at any stage of their learning journey. The purpose of this poster is to inspire teachers and others to get started and use the app more fully to help learners develop their communication, learning & literacy.

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Below is an accessible breakdown of the contents of the PDF poster, designed to be accessible with a screen reader, and also for people who find it hard to see or access the links in the poster.

Book Creator by Red Jumper Ltd (www.redjumper.net) is an intuitive and easy to learn app for creating your own eBooks and has many applications for those at any stage of their learning journey. The purpose of this poster is to inspire teachers and others to get started and use the app more fully to help learners develop their communication, learning and literacy.

Developing Communication

Making choices

Use images of activities/objects for presenting options and developing choicemaking

Giving Information

Record information for sharing with others. Telling news and personal stories

Sharing Personal Information

Make and share a Personal Communication Passport

Gathering Information

Practise asking questions to find out information. Eg carrying out a questionnaire or survey

Pupil Voice/Giving views and opinions

Record views and information for review meetings & pupil committees

Learning Social Skills and Situations

Write a social story, add recorded speech to support comprehension

Developing Organisation Skills

Task Instructions and Lists

Support instructions (step by step) or lists with images, audio/video. Eg signing dictionary with demos (Makaton), tying a shoelace, shopping lists

Visual schedule/timetable

Set up a timetable, task schedule, or To Do list. Eg a first then visual schedule

Other eBook/Story apps which you may also wish to consider:

Pictello, Story Creator, My Book Story Creator, Clicker books, Special Stories.

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Developing Literacy

Reading Books

Make accessible copies of books/text for pupils with a print disability. For detailed information visit Books for All or tar heel reader

Creative Writing / Fiction

Writing Activities

Writing from scratch or from your own template, collaboratively or independently

Functional Writing/NonFiction

Top Tips

Content Options

Add text, images, video, recorded speech narrations

Image Options

Add photos from your tablet camera roll. Illustrations, screenshots, images from books or the internet

Creating Text

Design Features

Produce an attractive e-Book using the many options available

Templates

Make a personalised story template containing vocabulary, sentence starters, images etc. For comics, select a comic book template

Sharing

Export as ePub, read on tablet, project on screen, use PDF for printing, video share option with automatic page turning, share a screenshot or book on a social media site, publish in the iBook store

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