Having read the ebooks on weread.org, I was tempted to create one of my own. So I did. I made an ebook using a poem I had taught a previous class some time ago. It is called "Someday," by John Ciardi. For a first-timer, I was rather proud of myself. I haven’t gotten any feedback on it as yet, but I discovered that it was not difficult. It took a lot of time, however, because I was unused to the process. I had to search quite a lot for appropriate pictures and I did the voice-over several times before I was satisfied. However, I was pleased with the final product.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Creating my first ebook
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Yes Jody, I see e-books having so much potential in teaching and learning. Our students are so visual. They have grown up in the age of the screen: television, computer, cellphone, iPhone, iPod,net books the lists go on and on. Have you every observed how they remember everything they watched on television and can give informed opinions based on what was presented?
If we can harness the potential of the e-book and incorporate it with other instructional strategies I feel we may get more postive outcomes. Like you, however, all this is just theory until we actually try it on our clients. It's something to look forward to though.
Hi Jody,
Congratulations on creating your first e-book. I have had the opportunity to use e-books with my students and their reaction is all that you can hope for: they want to read it again, they like the narration, they like the navigation buttons.
The greatest thrill for you as a teacher however is when one of them asks you if he/she can create their own books. I assisted 2 of my remedial reading students to create ebooks, one did a book about Scooby Doo and the other a book about cars. They were so happy to see their names as the authors and off course they read and reread those books so often in the reading room that they learnt the words as sight words. Both of these students were performing at first year level but the ebooks motivated them to want to read. I eventually did a print version of the books for the two of them and even now (2 years later) one of them comes to me to chat about it.
So Jody, try out your ebook and you will reap the benefit of having taken the time to do it.
I know how you feel .E-books offer such freedom , it is indeed a device that can be successfully used in our classroom, I believe that e-books will transform reading period from one of "not again" to "yeah bring it on". This would bring back the fun element to reading, while assisting teachers to engage their charges in topics that may not have always been to their liking. Like you I can see my charges unleashing their creative juices , while learning the fundamentals of story telling. I envision better essay construction and reading skills. look out world it's E- BOOK time!!!
Creating an E-book was the most exciting and practical aspect of this course .I tried to create one on my own and was very thrilled with the final product.I endorse the ideas expressed about the potential of E-books to motivate and consequently improve our students' literacy skills.I also look forward to experimenting withks and creating e-books with my class in September
Post a Comment