Digital Delights - Digital Tribes

A few days ago I downloaded May We Suggest?– a free iBook written by a 9th grade English class– and I was blown away and truly inspired. My students were inspired as well. Jon Smith (@theipodteacher) has been helping students create and publish books and you can see all of the available books on his blog.

A few days after downloading the book, I Facetimed (that’s a verb now, right?) with Mr. Smith and asked a million questions because I want to challenge my 8th graders to create and publish a book. Jon was very helpful and really passed his enthusiasm on to me. He helped explain the whole process and recommended we use Book Creator to create our multimedia presentations (video, audio, text, images, etc.) with the intent of making our books available through iBooks.

I introduced the idea to my students and listed all of the steps needed in order to make this book happen. It’s a daunting task, but it’s doable.

I then listed the six teams we’ll need to have working simultaneously  and collaboratively in order to create our final product:

1. Writing
2. Editing
3. Video
4. Illustrations and Graphics
5. Promotion
6. Publishing