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Our top 5 sites for sourcing great images and photos on your iPad
Our last blog post was about understanding copyright and licensing issues when sourcing images, and we’re following that up with some research into the best sites on the web to find photos, and in particular for when using an iPad.
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Understanding copyright, licensing and attribution for photos and images
Finding good quality images for your books isn’t easy. This article helps explain some of the terminology involved with copyright law and creative commons, to help you with sourcing images online.
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2nd Graders use Book Creator to share their family history with grandparents
A very experienced Book Creator Ambassador shares her project – look out for her top tips at the end of the article!
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Open letter to the Book Creator team: When Book Creator saved the day
Book Creator Ambassador Christina Mahar sent us an email that was so lovely we asked if we could publish it.
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How to get your students to plan the Book Creator lesson
When students become familiar with their iPads, let them dictate how they want to smash apps to create the final product.
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Creating vocabulary notebooks with a purpose
This teacher had the great idea to create template books for her students. She chose Apple’s Keynote app to create the template.
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How can we use comics in the classroom?
Book Creator 4.0 comes with comic book templates. Here’s some thoughts about how and why comic books can be used as a writing stimulus, and more.
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Increasing student engagement with Book Creator in Special Education
This Proloquo2go Coach explains how she and her colleagues faced the challenge of teaching students who have trouble communicating their ideas. Read how they used ebooks to inspire and engage their students.
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Teaching procedures and routines to your class with Book Creator
This special education teacher shares some useful tips and examples of how she and her class use Book Creator.
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Hand-drawn animations in Explain Everything – published with Book Creator
Part 4 of our series looking at how to app smash Book Creator and Explain Everything. This time we’re creating hand-drawn animations in Explain Everything on multiple devices, and compiling them into one published ebook in Book Creator.
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