Mr Hammerlund

Until today, we were playing "pass the iPad" with project to make a book about our school. What I mean is that with Book Creator, you cannot simultaneously edit a book (that I know of), so I had the kids do something while one student was making their page. The problem [only in the sense of time] was that the students kept tweaking their pages and after two days I had two pages of the book. That was not going to work. Last night at home I remembered seeing a way to combine books. So today I set out to do that. Here is how it is done. Warning: When combining books, you need to have the book you want the pages merged in to selected. (By selected I mean have the main book be the one in the center of the screen.) Step 1 - Start at the "Home Screen" I do not know the official name for this screen, but it is the one where you can see all of your books. Step 2 - Click the "+" [plus] Step 3 - Click Combine Books

Embarking on my COETAIL final project, I found myself collaborating with two other classes to make a book about each of our schools which will lead to another project about communities.  The app of choice is called Book Creator. I really like the app so far since it is easy for the students to get the hang of it. One of my more tech-savvy second graders tried it for the first time today after being out last week when we started with it, and it was amazing to see him find his way around so quickly - not even the hidden buttons could hold back this digital native. Since we will be sharing our books using Dropbox, I spent some time trying to figure out how this thing would work. I tried Googling how to save to Dropbox and came across this blog post  about how to do it with iOS 6, but it is slightly different with iOS 7. Step 1 Click the "send" link. Step 2 Click "Open with another App". Step 3 From here you can save to Dr...