C is for Collaborate

Well, what a full day of seeing different collaborative Book Creator works from our class!  I was super impressed with the variety of ideas and creativity!  I jotted down a few notes of what I thought was particularly memorable from each pair, although I could have said A LOT more.  How enlightening and varied were our assignments!

Joy and Nike:  I enjoyed their game show link.  I think my students would have a lot of fun with this format... cool idea.  I also like the burgundy icons to show instructions.  Their whole "welcome book" idea was awesome too.  I can see my students doing something like this for our school.

Laurianne and John:  65 pages!!! I felt a little scared when I saw that, but really liked their use of space and how they used multiple pages to show their content.  It was almost like a Book Creator template.  Smart.

Alecia and Holly:  I liked the "tec buddies" concept for doing book creator together.  This could be great for my career access students next year.  Perhaps we can pair with a grade 6 class to do some collaborative work with Book Creator.

Rachel and Terry:  I wasn't familiar with the term "Elevator Pitch", but am now.  This again is something that would apply directly to a high school population.  I liked the 2 minute rant ideas as well as linking a rubric right onto the assignment page.  So versatile!

Susanne and Dave:  Social Stories on Book Creator were awesome!  What a great platform for students of any age.  I also liked the show and talk about math ideas.

Chelsea and Christine:  APP Smashing... who knew there were so many things that would work inside Book Creator.  Now I have to put all of them on my iPads.  Nike said maybe the way to go in our board is to get a grant.

Shari and Michelle:  The math journal idea was a great one.  I wouldn't have considered using Book Creator for math, but it totally works. 

Nick and Sue:  I like how they used drawing in their book and had the class year book idea.  Another thing I could apply directly to my teaching.   I liked their link to Khan Academy too.  Brilliant way to use the hyperlink feature.

Chris and Jill:  I was really impressed with how they linked so many different activities to outcomes at various grades.  I will apply the provinces and sentence starter books to my programming.  

Tracy and I:  We learned a lot and have produced something really useable, while having a good time doing so.... 

..... and we get copies of everyone's Books....   HOW AWESOME IS THAT!