Webinar Wednesday: Book Creator Webinar Series for Summer

In the world of Ed Tech and assistive technology, when you find an app, for lack of better words, that just works, you really get excited. Book Creator is one of those apps. It's a top-quality creation tool which empowers kids of many ages to publish their own digital books.With it's simplistic interface students can easy navigate the features to build pages, providing for more opportunities to enable your students to focus on creatively designing and publishing their work digitally. For struggling or emerging readers, Book Creator has a "built-in" 'Read to Me' feature available on both iOS and Chrome. This updated feature provides your students with the ability to listen to their books read aloud using your device’s text-to-speech capabilities. Additionally, Book Creator can highlight the words as they are read and turn the pages automatically.

So now that you're hooked, the question is, where can you learn more about Book Creator?

Join fellow blogger, Monica Burns (@ClassTechTips), for a free webinar series to explore a variety of ways students can “show what they know” across subject areas when creating ebooks with Book Creator. From May through August of this year, Monica will be hosting 10 Book Creator webinars all about this open-ended creation tool.

Each webinar has a specific focus where you’ll find lots of different ideas to take back to your students or the teachers you support. You’ll need to register for each webinar individually.

Interested in a topic, but unable to make the date? Not to worry. Register anyway and a recording will be sent for you to watch at a more convenient time. Space is limited for each webinar, so don't delay in registering. Below you can find a list of the various topics with links to register. Please note all webinar times are EST.

For more details on what will be focused on specifically in each webinar, click on the link below:

Book Creator Webinar Series for Summer

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Webinar Wednesday: Check for Understanding with Book Creator

If you haven't had the opportunity to use Book Creator, you are truly missing out. Join fellow blogger, Monica Burns (@ClassTechTips), for this free webinar to explore a variety of ways students can “show what they know” across subject areas when creating ebooks with Book Creator.

- Formative assessment best practices - Scaffolds and supports for student projects - Providing feedback and action steps to students The webinar is on Friday, June 30th from 1:00-1:45 PM EDT and will run for approximately 45 mins, with time for questions at the end.

You will be creating books along the way so you’ll need to have the app open and ready.

Don't have Book Creator? We have you covered....Be sure to become a Where It's AT subscriber by email today for your chance next week to win a free license of Book Creator! 

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Check for Understanding with Book Creator webinar.

Source: Book Creator, Class Tech Tips

Friday "Appy" Hour: Snap & Read Universal for iPad

At the recent Everyone Reading conference, I participated in a product presentation session which highlighted two of the Don Johnston products uPAR and Snap and Read Universal, a glimpse into the vast suite of products offered. This prompted me to create this Friday's "Appy" Hour post...because a resource like this is just too good to not share! 

Until recently, Snap and Read was only available as a Google Chrome extension on a PC or Mac. With it's recent release, now iPad and iPhone users will have the same access as PC and Mac users, to listen to printed text read aloud in high quality voices alongside the ability to dynamically level, take images of and listen to worksheets read aloud using OCR (Optical Character Recognition), highlight text and create outlines and notations with citations on webpages and documents alike. Additionally, translations are available in over 100 languages, making this an ideal tool for ELL students.

This brief video provides a comprehensive overview of the features available through Snap and Read Universal for iPad.

To learn more about Snap and Read Universal or any of the other amazing products made by possible by Don Johnston, visit the Don Johnston website. On the website, you can view videos that highlight the specific features available within Snap and Read, such as dynamic text leveling or study tools and outlining in more depth. I am unable to share pricing as it varies on the number of subscribers and accounts created. However, you can request a quote directly on the website if interested. 

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Educational Technology Infographic clarifies some of the habits highly-effective educators who utilize learning technologies might possess. In particular, successful teachers that integrated edtech in their teaching...

• always start with the why
• are malleable and can easily adapt
• embrace change
• share
• think win-win
• are thorough and think ahead
• actively care

To download a copy of this infographic click here!

Source: http://blog.alwaysprepped.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teachers-who-use-technology/