rare that he is at the school, loved to find out my favorite things, and were surprised that I play my instruments outside my classroom. I then exported the ebook as a video and shared it with their parents via the students’ digital learning journals. This helped the parents learn about me in September, as I probably would have not met many of them until the Decem- ber concert.
Pricing There is a free iOS version of the “Book Creator” app
Figure 7 Composition ebook
where you can try it out and create one ebook. The iOS app is $4.99 per one iPad. The web-based version is free for 40 ebooks with one library; $60 a year for 180 ebooks with three libraries and real-time collaboration; $120 a year for 1000 eb- ooks with ten libraries and real-time collaboration; and there is a volume purchasing program as well. “Book Creator” has been a nice creative enhancement to
Figure 8 Composition ebook
All About Me Ebooks At the beginning of PreK and kindergarten, the students enter the school with their “All About Me” books. These books contain pictures of their families, their homes, their favorite places to visit, and more. These books help their classroom teachers and classmates to get to know each other better.
my elementary music classroom. I have also had the students create ebooks about NJ musicians, their favorite composers, comic book ariosos in celebration of “National Comic Book Day,” Peter and the Wolf ebooks, and so much more. When my daughter was in second grade, she was so inspired to write a book that she wrote and illustrated one in the style of Laura Numeroff ’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, titled If You Give a Bear a Banana. She then used “Book Creator” to turn it into an ebook that she could publish online and share with the author, via me tweeting the author the link. Numeroff tweeted back immediately to say how much she enjoyed my daughter’s ebook! “Book Creator” is a great way to assess students’ knowl-
edge through project-based learning, to assess their singing skills, to add cross curricular connections such as writing, art, design thinking, etc, and for the students to “show what they know.”
Amy M. Burns (
aburns@fhcds.org) has taught PreK- Figure 9 All About Me ebook At the beginning of the 2017 school year, I thought that
I should create an “All About Me” ebook for my PreK and kindergarten students to get to know me better (see figure 9). I used “Book Creator” to show pictures of my family, a video of me playing the flute, and some of my favorite hobbies. The students were shocked to see a picture of Mr. Burns, as it is
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grade 4 general music for over 20 years at Far Hills Country Day School. She has authored three books on how to integrate tech into the elementary music class- room. She has presented many sessions on the topic, in- cluding four keynote addresses in Texas, Indiana, Saint Maarten, and Australia. She is the recipient of the TI ME Teacher of the Year, NJ Master Music Teacher, Gov- ernor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Non- public School Teacher of the Year Awards.
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