Create e-books

Create e-books for engaging writing

Writing exercises are always more fun if you know that the texts will be read “for real”. It increases creativity and accuracy when the students publishing what they write. It is fun and engaging to create books with images and colours! BookCreator has taken note of this, and they offer a free internet service where you can create e-books really easy. The books can be collected in the school’s own e-library and of course, you can send the links to the parents or whoever you want.

Let the kids make real books!

I recently received a tip about a service called BookCreator, and of course, I wanted to try it out with my class. BookCreator lets students create a real e-book, and now that I have tried it with the students, I can honestly say that it was a long time since we had so much fun! It was easy to use the different tools, and it was possible to create many different types of books.

You can get started by logging in with your Google account and then create a library. The library will contain all the books that the school or class produce for a long time, and the books will be displayed for students to come. After that, you click “New book” to make the first e-book. The first time I used BookCreator, I missed the tab called “Templates”, so I only saw the blank templates in different shapes. I was happy anyway, but it would have saved me a lot of time if I had seen that there are many different ready-made templates to choose from.

When creating books, you can either let the students log in and create all by themselves, or you can copy their texts and paste them on the book pages for them. I chose to cut and paste the first time I used it because I felt unsure of all the features and how everything worked. When you have used it once and feel more secure, you can let the students create their own books.

When the book is all done, click the small share button at the bottom of the page and select “Publish online”. This will provide a link that you can share wherever you want, or you may share the book directly in your Google Classroom.

Take me to BookCreator! 🙂