Instructional and Assistive Technology in Special Education

For this assignment, you are going to create a Book Creator digital storybook online.

Book Creator now comes as an online (Web 2.0) tool. However, I believe you must use the Chrome browser for it to work. So, you no longer need a tablet or the app. However, you can complete it on a tablet.

· Book Creator  Resources

Get Started Bookcreator Online:

· Create an online Book Creator book: You must make a Book Creator book using Book Creator online (Must use Chrome Browser). To create an account and start working.  Create an account webpage. (Links to an external site.)   Sign up as a teacher. There is a Getting Started with Book Creator resource there for you.

REQUIRED Book Requirements

· Your book should be designed to teach something for a K-12 class of students with disabilities (e.g., the states of matter, types of penguins, etc).

· Eight Instructional Pages: Your book must be at least  8 instructional pages (not counting the cover page, objectives page, or activity or answer key pages). These are the pages that teach the content.  Do not use all capital letters for your text.  It is hard to read online and it doesn't represent correct writing for our students. 

· Cover page (required) and  objectives page (Required). The cover page should include the title of the lesson and your name as the teacher.  The objectives page should include several special learning goals, e.g., To identify the three branches of the government and their functions. 

· Two Pages where Students Must Make a Response: Students learn best when they are actively involved in instruction. So, your book must include at least 2 pages where they are required to make some type of response such as oral response, write responses on a piece of paper, etc. Note that they will not be able to respond directly to the book .  You just need to occasion the responses. You should provide an answer key via a voice note or another page. The answer key does NOT count as one of your content pages. 

· Record Voice: You must record your voice (or a child's voice) recorded on all the pages. Be sure to move the microphone symbol on the side and not in the middle of the page on the images.

· Canvas Submission: You are to submit through Canvas a brief description (just about 3 or 4 sentences) of your digital book. You will need to follow the directions that allow me to view your book that must be included.

· Providing Me Access: Be sure that you have your book saved. The book must be in a Book Creator library.  Then you can get the code to post in Canvas. See the end of the video I created in Book Creator resources to learn how to do this. I can join your library with the code.  Also, submit your Book Creator username and password in case I have issues accessing your book. I need you to do both: Post the book code and your Bookcreator site username and password in case there is an issue with your code. 

Optional

· Optional: Video. You can add a video by embedding the web code.  Directions on embedding. (Links to an external site.)

Information Only

· Student Access: Your students would access your Bookcreator book via a code. With your students, y ou must create a library for your book to share it with the code or move it to your library.

New Bookcreator Book Example:   The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin (Links to an external site.)

Sample Bookcreator Books

The first four books are created on the online program. The remaining were created on the iPad app. I have recorded them with a narrative, where I point out some key features. NOTE: Their assignment expectations may have been different than yours above. 

The Layers of the Earth (Links to an external site.)

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator (Links to an external site.)

https://read.bookcreator.com (Links to an external site.)

 

The Life Cycle of a Frog (Links to an external site.)

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator (Links to an external site.)

https://read.bookcreator.com (Links to an external site.)

 

The Solar System (Links to an external site.)

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator (Links to an external site.)

https://read.bookcreator.com (Links to an external site.)

 

Writing Paragraphs (Links to an external site.)

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator (Links to an external site.)

https://read.bookcreator.com (Links to an external site.)

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·  Below are videos of some of my favorite Bookcreator books.  I highlight the positive features of the books.  They may look like the videos do not work, but they do.

 

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· The ABC of Math (Links to an external site.)

· Story Elements (Links to an external site.)

· The Scientific Method (Links to an external site.)

· The Life Cycle of the Butterfly (Links to an external site.)