Category: Blog

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Design Thinking & Book Creator

Book Creator Ambassador Beth Holland considers how Book Creator can help enable students to document the 5 steps of the design thinking process.
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Happy Book Creator Christmas!

Dominic Traynor from ‘A Tale Unfolds’ explains how one school created personal film trailers to spice up their Christmas activities.
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9 tips for creating effective student ebooks

Check out these expert tips from educational technology author and speaker Sam Gliksman.
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Comic competition winners chosen!

It’s decided! Our comic competition has finished and Kevin Eastman has chosen his top three. Congratulations to Nandini Tyagi!
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The top 11 apps to use with Book Creator

We asked our Book Creator Ambassadors to choose their favourite apps for smashing with Book Creator. Here’s their top choices.
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Comic book competition – here are the finalists!

Thank you to everyone who entered our comic book competition. We’ve narrowed it down to the final 10 – here they are.
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The 5Ds framework for integrating technology in the classroom

The 5Ds framework, from Book Creator Ambassador Jim Tuscano, can help make learning with technology more meaningful, purposeful, and authentic.
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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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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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