A cool, fantastic and amazing app. I find it really helpful for EAL students to use book creator that helps them to involve in active learning that also aiding in exploring their creative sides in producing their work while learning.
Community Review for Book Creator
My Take
The impact on teaching and learning is where teaching was a lot easy. It showcased creativity of students and present their work in a very fantastic way. Also, while observing my students, it became apparent to me that to increase effectiveness of my lessons, I had to focus with the way the task is given into practice. My students were included and engaged in the task, they used their prior knowledge and complete the activity successfully. I managed to even ask them few questions with regards of the experience using the tool. Moving forward, I would definitely use this activity to be adapted into different types of learning a text and making my students to reflect their learning. Their learning was evident when all of them were able to demonstrate working in the evaluation level of Bloom's Taxonomy level during the task. They communicated well and collaborated throughout the task i.e they suggested to their friends in what kind of pictures, texts that they could use in making their poster to look amazing. They were excited in using Book Creator as they managed to be an independent explorer who is responsible for their own learning.
How I Use It
Being an EAL teacher, I realised that this Book creator was helping my students to develop their learning. I taught a lesson on non-chronological report. This is where my students were told to research on butterfly and identify the stages of a butterfly. I realised that it is a good opportunity to invoke higher order thinking skills amongst my learners. With this in mind, I structured my Book Creator in where my students need to use Bloom's taxonomy level in order to create a poster about the lifecycle of Butterfly using Book Creator. My students loved the activity and it engaged my students. They used their researching skills and prior knowledge whilst doing this task. The end product was amazing. This definitely will help the other teachers to use this activity as a way to make students reflect their learning by using their prior knowledge about a topic taught for instance Non-Chronological report. Also, it also helps teacher to identify the students' engagement level throughout this activity.