Mixbook is an online tool that enables easy creation of interactive books, using original photos or artworks. The book created can be shared online for free or printed for a fee. Everyone becomes a publisher with Mixbook!
Being a free online service affords schools all the pedagogical opportunities to be taken advantage of. Teachers can make students learn to publish not only images but also texts as they try to demonstrate what has been learnt through research and experiments. Art students could upload their images, attach texts and publish. It is also an ideal application for practicing story telling with accompanying illustrations. If it can be afforded, Mixbook charges a fee for ordering a printed copy of the book that has been created.
Group project is possible as there is an opportunity for individuals to collaborate from distant locations to build the content of a single book. In a lesson whereby each student takes charge of an aspect of a research, the students can collaborate in authoring the book with each one of them specializing in the content of a chapter, a unit or a page. All students will have the opportunity to embed the book on their various blogs.
To use Mixbook with students, students should be able to perform basic task of uploading and importing images. Mixbook offers the option of importing images from other social networks such as Facebook and Flikr. It is appropriate that parents’ consent is sought before a student orders a printed copy of the books authored on Mixbook.
Mixbook authoring can be done on any computer with Internet connection. Schools with one-to-one computer access would therefore have little problem ensuring individual attention on the use of the program. As each student would have to partake in the use of the program, whether in the form of portfolio building or a group project, students can be permitted to continue their work at home in cases where there is limited access to computer in the use.
Being a free online service affords schools all the pedagogical opportunities to be taken advantage of. Teachers can make students learn to publish not only images but also texts as they try to demonstrate what has been learnt through research and experiments. Art students could upload their images, attach texts and publish. It is also an ideal application for practicing story telling with accompanying illustrations. If it can be afforded, Mixbook charges a fee for ordering a printed copy of the book that has been created.
Group project is possible as there is an opportunity for individuals to collaborate from distant locations to build the content of a single book. In a lesson whereby each student takes charge of an aspect of a research, the students can collaborate in authoring the book with each one of them specializing in the content of a chapter, a unit or a page. All students will have the opportunity to embed the book on their various blogs.
To use Mixbook with students, students should be able to perform basic task of uploading and importing images. Mixbook offers the option of importing images from other social networks such as Facebook and Flikr. It is appropriate that parents’ consent is sought before a student orders a printed copy of the books authored on Mixbook.
Mixbook authoring can be done on any computer with Internet connection. Schools with one-to-one computer access would therefore have little problem ensuring individual attention on the use of the program. As each student would have to partake in the use of the program, whether in the form of portfolio building or a group project, students can be permitted to continue their work at home in cases where there is limited access to computer in the use.