Literacy Apps to Create Books on the iPad
This article shares 15 apps to help students create books on the iPad. Several are free and a great way to start exploring how students can write their own stories using an iPad.
Some are free: Little Story Maker; Story Creator; Demibooks Composer; Storyteller Deluxe - Story Creation Made Easy; StoryBuddy 2 Lite; Scribble My Story - A Fingerprint Network App
Some are paid: Book Creator - $4.99; EBook Maker - $4.99; Book Writer - ebook, PDF creator - $3.99; My Story - Book Maker for Kids - $3.99; Picturebook - $3.99; Writer's Studio $4.99; eBook Journal - $4.99; Scribble Press $3.99
Increasing Student Engagement by Grading Backwards
The title of this article intrigued me. The question that ran through my mind is, this begs the question as to why we grade in a subtractive/negating manner? This article poses the thought that all students start a class with zero points and gain points as they complete learning tasks, projects and activities. This is based on video gaming which continues to engage students in a variety of ways depending on the mission and levels of the game. I would like to hear pros and cons of what teachers think of this way of grading.
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I've actually considered doing this. The things that's held me up is it feels like one would have to set a concrete number of points available in the course at the beginning and you'd lose a little flexibility there. Also, I wonder if students would work until they got to a "passing level" and call it good...??
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