Tips2012 iPad App Guide #40: Book Creator

iPads open up exciting opportunities for teachers and students to self-publish and share their own books with authentic audiences. While iBooks Author (Mac) & Creative Book Builder (iPad) are good options, the most intuitive and professional app we’ve found to date remains Book Creator for iPad.

This app makes it easy for teachers, and students (Grade 1 and older) to create and publish their own storybooks, projects, textbooks, cookbooks, etc using their own photos, text, audio (included recorded speech), and video. The recent update to V 2.4 allows users to include hyperlinks, and combine books / chapters to create collaborative texts. (Requires iOS6).

Finished books can be saved to Dropbox, iBooks, and Evernote, or sent to your computer as an ePub or high quality PDF file. They can be imported back into the app for further collaborative editing, or submitted to the Apple iBooks Store, where they can be shared with the world.

For: Students (Primary to Secondary), Teachers

Cost:  $5.49 AU (Download Link)

Requires WiFi?: No

Educational Applications

  • Student content creation – storybooks, cookbooks, instruction manuals, etc
  • Literacy – Writing
  • Cross-curricular projects / presentations

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6 thoughts on “Tips2012 iPad App Guide #40: Book Creator

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  2. One of our Grade 6 classes is using the Book Creator App to write stories for our little Grade 3s. Working in pairs, they wrote a story, proof read it and then typed it up in Book Creator. They then sourced pictures from the internet and we taught them how to cite their sources. When they are finished the books will be uploaded into iBooks and then the class will invite our Grade 3s to come over to our campus and the stories will be read to them from the iPads! This is really an amazing app which teachers could put to great use, especially for presenting work and information in a different way. It does not support video yet, but I believe they are working on it!

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  4. Thanks Karen
    This is a great example of a learning community with peer to peer learning. You are such an inspiring educator. Pls will you send in an I-story so we ca. Feature your work

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