FREE Students’ create published Books (Stage 2, Stage 3, Stage 4, Stage 5, Stage 6, TAFE Students, Teacher)
Teachers automatically collect students’ content into collaborative digital books & PDF to print on demand. 3 min explainer video.
ACTIVITY OUTLINE:
A teacher signs up free to create a free collaborative class book: 3 min explainer video.
- Teachers invite students to contribute content directly into a class book,
- Students open a template page to type their content and upload photos/artwork, then submit,
- All content is automatically formatted into a digital book to share online & PDF to print on demand.
Students contribute the content you request and all contributions are automatically collated into the Front cover, Contents, and Chapters.
Examples:
We’re a Google for Education and AWS (Amazon) Partner, comply with all privacy and data storage requirements, available on any device connected to WiFi.
IS THIS A FREE EVENT? Yes
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: eBookform
Event Details
Event Type
On Demand (available until: 30-Jun-2023 11:59PM)
Delivery Platform
Duration
Curriculum
Primary, Secondary
Syllabus Outcomes
ENLS5-A - Students express a point of view in relation to the content or presentation of visual texts, media or multimedia ● ENLS7-A - Students develop a point of view in relation to an argument or issue presented in a text ● ENLS-10B - Students explore the effects of different language forms, features and structures for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts, explore the ways in which language forms, features and structures can be used to position the reader ● ENLS13-C - Students appreciate that their own experience shapes responses to texts, identify persuasive language used in texts, use persuasive language to present an opinion or point of view, identify how different texts treat the same subject matter, compare, discuss and justify different interpretations of texts ● ENLS-15D - Students recognise that texts can represent individual or shared views, identify and explain different points of view presented in a range of texts, compose texts to reflect a personal belief or point of view ● ENLS6-11 - Students recognise that there may be more than one point of view on a particular topic, theme or event, identify the language forms and features that indicate point of view, values and attitudes in texts, recognise emotional language in texts and consider the influence of emotional language on the audience, identify points of view, values and attitudes in a range of texts, compose texts from different points of view, compare texts presenting different views on the same topic ● ENLS-11B - Students select and use a range of technology and strategies to create visual and multimedia texts for particular purposes, contexts and audiences, explore ways to present information using appropriate technology and strategies ● Use technology as a tool to collect primary source information and publish a digital book.
Main KLA, Strand, Sub Strand
English » Making meaning through responding and composing » Writing and Representing
Other KLAs
Creative Arts » Photographic and Digital Media
Science and Tech » Information Processes and Technology
Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
ABORIGINAL STUDIES:
LI: We are learning:
to value Indigenous culture, knowledge, and art.
to understand the Australian history and cultures.
SC: I can:
understand the value of Indigenous knowledge, culture, and arts.
Terms and Conditions
https://ebookform.com/terms/
Joining The Event
Requirements: Technology, Materials and Pre and Post event requirements.
You need a device and internet access. Work at your own pace.
We deliver personalised lessons to teachers and students on how to use the eBookform technology to easily follow prompts, input content into the dashboard, and create automatically formatted books we publish.
Contact us if you need any help: [email protected]
Connecting To The Event
Teacher signs up: https://ebookform.com/
Go to FREE DEMO BOOK.
This opens a free book-creating dashboard, follow the prompts to name your book, upload a cover photo, and invite your students to contribute content.
This sends an automated link to students’ emails. ONCE ONLY – They click on the link and sign up.
They access a template page to type their content, upload photos, and click submit.
They can return to their template page: ‘log in’ at https://ebookform.com/
Presenter Bio
Carey Furze, eBookform Founder/CEO.
Former English teacher, Edtech founder, and entrepreneur. NESA accredited teacher and student training to use technology as a tool to create published books of value.
Optional Further Learning
Every student a published qualitative researcher
New Edutech scaffolds & documents student’s qualitative research into published books, developing 21st century skills and transformational learning, funded by communities.
The eBookform dashboard empowers Students to speak into the page, interview others & collaborate, using question prompts, speech-to-text in any language, and all content is automatically formatted into digital books to share online, print on demand & sell.
eBookform enhances existing writing assignments with STEAM pedagogy and Universal Design Learning frameworks to personalize & differentiate how, what & why students write. Ensuring local curriculum objectives and global ISTE standards are achieved.
The ‘Communication for Connection’ activities generate oxytocin for feelings of trust, security & developing resilience. Students’ content enriches lessons & develops the 4Cs of Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, plus Social Emotional Intelligence.
Qualitative Research:
Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data e.g., text, images, or audio, to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research.
Similar to STEM, Entrepreneurial or business units where students research, identify & analyze a problem, then engineer a solution that can be monetized & delivered at scale, the FamilyBookform technology enables every student to go into their community and generate original qualitative research – there are many businesses, grants and government funding that pay for this valuable data.
Example: Students create valuable qualitative research on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected their communities. Teachers said, “the students were much more conscientious with their writing, because they knew their primary-source information would be valuable historical data for future generations, they felt very responsible to do a good job.”
Students have been visiting elders in their communities for years, for socializing or giving singing & dancing performances. We know how beneficial these intergenerational visits are for everyone’s emotional & physical health. Now, using the eBookform technology, students can capture those interactions and document them into published Memoirs or oral history books, and sell to those communities. Technology enhances those original activities from ‘nice to those people at that time & place’, into polished books that can be celebrated by many, now and into the future.
Students offer this Memoir service to various communities; palliative care, disabled people, immigrants, and minority groups – giving voice to previously unheard peoples, perspectives & experiences. Interviews can even be done online, helpful in the current pandemic environment.
Gamification and STEAM writing:
STEM education is the integration of scientific methods & pedagogy, in which students investigate and engineer solutions to problems, and construct evidence-based explanations of real-world phenomena. ‘A’ for Arts or humanities adds creativity & a human-relevant lens when investigating problems & solutions.
The eBookform dashboard guides students to investigate, collect primary-source content and critically analyze that content to identify problems, solutions and create new knowledge of value for authentic audiences.
Writing technology hasn’t changed very much over the years, it’s still students typing onto a blank page or templates teachers create. Teachers spend a lot of time getting students to be interested in reading & writing, suggesting topics to write about, text books to analyze, or maybe videos to watch & write a report or research paper.
Students never need any help when playing online games do they? All the instructions are in the dashboard & they’re interested because it’s fun. That’s what our dashboard does, it guides students to collect personal content and that agency & personalization generates an interest in learning & writing.
Plus, families really want the end book product, because it’s personal & precious, so the whole family & community are motivating students to do a good job and finish – and they buy the books.
Improved Boys’ literacy research
Education at scale – Micro-credentials:
Education is changing from mass delivery of content & exams to personalized learning and proof of that learning in micro-credentials, portfolios & experience. Although technology is a great way to deliver content at scale, it does not guarantee that students engage, understand or complete the work. “In fact, research shows that Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have high dropout rates & questionable quality.”
What skills are important for the future anyway? Communication has been identified as the single biggest contributing factor to a person’s health, wealth and success in relationships, career & life. Big companies and recruitment agencies are listing ‘Communication skills’ (soft skills) as more important now than technical skills or degrees. “It doesn’t matter how clever candidates are or where they went to school, if they can’t articulate their knowledge & ideas, collaborate with others, or mitigate conflict with empathy & EQ, then they have very limited value.”
Research on increasing youth mental ill-health & societies fracturing into extremism (see ‘Generation Me’ by Jean Twenge and ‘The Lonely Century’ by Noreena Hertz), the village is no longer raising the child. We are living a lot of our daily hours inside our heads and not physically & mentally out in the ‘real’ world.
‘Communication for connection’ projects that scaffold not just young people, but their parents, extended families and the community at large are an efficient, scalable solution to building vital relationships, communication skills, empathy and authentic worldviews.
We’re a Google for Education Partner, integrated into the Classroom platform, available on Chromebooks & any device connected to WiFi. Comply with all student privacy & data storage requirements. Opportunities to advocate for incentives & present case studies & new research globally. Case studies, lesson plans, explainer videos are on the website.
Currently the digital content is collated into books, but soon there will be options to create authentic avatars, so in Virtual Reality (VR) we’ll be able to engage with anyone – forever.
More information: https://ebookform.com/
If you have any queries please contact the provider
Will This Event Be Recorded?
No