Remember the standard version of the book report that you
dreaded having to sit through, every last one of your classmates
read theirs individually? Well now, book reports just got
interactive, bringing life to the class, with iBooks and the
iPad. Harry Dickens, Director of Technology at the Arkansas
Public School Resource Center in Little Rock, says now students
can bring that report to life making it interactive and fun, by
creating an iBook on the iPad. "It is an App, we actually create
iBooks on the computer and we can actually project those books
on the iPads," said Dickens. The countless things you can do
when creating these iBooks are huge, allowing kids to show what
they know. The way the App works, students just type in how they
want their book set up, using images, video, 3-D objects and
even review questions if teachers create a book for
instructional use. "It's engagement for the kids," added
Dickens. Keeping them engaged and prepared for the future.