Year 0-3

ALL ABOUT BIRDS.  Poppy-May, Harrison and Hollie, Otautau School. Year 1. Teacher: Kirsty Grave.  
In term three the big kids in our school made ebooks about us. We were so excited to see what they created that we wanted to have ago. We had to work in groups to make an ebook that would either show our learning for inquiry about environment or tell visitors to our school information. 

Our teacher showed us what to do using book creator and off we went. Taking photos or finding them off drop box, adding text and making it look good. 
MY COOL DAD.  Caitlin, Room 2, Makarewa School. Year 3. 
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At writing time we have been investigating how to write a really good character description. We all had to choose a character that we knew really well and using the criteria we wrote a description. I chose my Dad because I know him well and he is special to me. We have been investigating e books as another way of sharing our writing with an audience. 
SOPHIA THE PIRATE.  Junior Village, Makarewa School. Year 0-2. Teacher: Renee McGinnis.
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Our school production provided us with an ideal opportunity to look at pirates and how they lived. We developed a keen interest in what pirates were all about, what they ate, how they lived on ships and how they talked. We are also learning to become storytellers and created this story using our own ideas and words. We are exploring the ipad app - Book Creator as another way of publishing our stories. The eBook app - Book Creator has helped us to create our own class book to share with each other and the wider community. 

Year 4-6

THE ROMAN SOLDIER.  Daniel, Kowhai, Myross Bush School. Year 5&6. Teacher: Mark Herring.
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This ebook was created as part of some work on writing narratives. Daniel wrote his own story with a beginning, middle and end and created his main characters with a focus on a problem and a solution. This ebook was made in Book Creator and used all his own original images.
HOW TO TIDY YOUR CLOAK ROOM.  Justin and Reagan, Room 1, Winton School. Year 6. Teacher: Jalana Collie
As part of our inquiry topic, "Who's the teacher?", the students identified an area of weakness within our school and decided how they would teach other students about this. Justin and Reagan decided our cloakroom was too messy so decided to make an ebook to rectify this situation. 
MALAWI.  Joana Era, St Thomas Aquinas. Year 5. Teacher: Summer Wilton.
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We had to learn how to use technology to retell information to the reader about Malawi. We had a new student begin Term 3 in our class and she was from Malawi. I had to plan what information I was going to include, the important information. I had to research alot on the country like clothing and food. I worked with Tawina to find out more about her previous country. I had to search up pictures, images and videos to help engage the reader. I also had to type in my writing.

Year 7&8

WHAT DEFINES YOU?  Minds Alive, Southland Girls High School. Year 8. Teacher: Sharee Ineson.
This was an E Book made to collate our tuning in summary for our independent group projects. The book was saved to our Ultranet page.

The focus was around a you tube clip Soy, Kenya - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE63BYWdqC4 

Access to information is powerful its how we use it which is powerful

We also looked at Malala and how she had used knowledge in a powerful way.

We also included our stepping up to make a change shoes created using the Colar mix app.

We are now working on our individual projects in the finding out/sorting out stage each linked to a topic and focused around a research question. Our next stage will be to present our learning summary perhaps using the Aurasma App as one tool .
DEEP COVE CAMP.  Room 3, St Thomas Aquinas. Year 7&8. Teacher: Joy Quinlan.
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We went to Deep Cove for our senior camp, in Term 2. We had some great new experiences and learned a lot about what is in Deep Cove and what people can do there. While we were in Deep Cove, we took lots of photos and videos so we could share our experience with the rest of the school. 
When we got back to school, we decided to make an iBook, using 'iBooks Author' on the computer, so we could give people information about Deep Cove. We had to do a bit a research and use what we had learned on camp to find information for our iBook. We also had to go through all of the photos and videos that we had taken on camp to decide what we would use in our iBook. We made our iBook interesting by adding in widgets, like quizzes and videos. 
IAN WILLIAM JAMIESON.  Room 10, Winton School. Year 7.
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As part of a Family Ancestor unit our class were investigating our own family history. Our teacher shared about his Grand parents and how they struggled to overcome challenges and obstacles in their lives. As a class we wanted to show what we discovered in an interesting way that would be able to be shared with family members easily.

Making an ebook using book creator was a logical choice. Students worked together firstly in pairs to explore what the app could do. Students were able to share their knowledge and demonstrate how to use features such as hyperlinks and including audio to the other class members via the apple TV

As a teacher it was great for me to see the enthusiasm students had in using the technology to create and share something they felt was of worth.
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