Annotating a Digital Book (ebook)

Are you familiar with two of the best creation tools available, Book Creator and Explain Everything? If not, you'll want to tune into this series of blog entries from the creator of Explain Everything, Reshan Richards.

What appears below is an excerpt from the blog entry here; click the link to the how-to and access other items in the series!

Following these steps will help you take a book and annotate it during a presentation to your students/classmates

Part 1 of a 4-part series looking at how the popular educational apps Book Creator and Explain Everything can be used together.Other posts from this series:
Part 2: From Explain Everything to Book Creator to iTunes U
Part 3: Create a comic in Book Creator and animate it in Explain Everything
Part 4: Hand-drawn animations in Explain Everything – published with Book Creator

We’re teaming up with the Book Creator team to explore ways in which their app can be used with Explain Everything by teachers and students. This is the first post in a series of four articles looking at combining the features of the two apps for various scenarios.

Today, with the help of Dan Kemp, Community Manager at Red Jumper, we’re looking at how to export a book made in Book Creator as a PDF so it can be opened in Explain Everything.

The scenario: taking a book and annotating it during a presentation to your students/classmates

Imagine you have started creating a book in Book Creator and then realize it would be really cool to use what you have made to do a live presentation to students. You have used Book Creator to take advantage of the wide range of fonts and simple text editing, but now you want to take it a step further.

The project is a simple diagram showing the position and behavior of the Sun, Earth and Moon.

Watch the video below to see how this can be done or follow the steps below.