We found the app very helpful for digital publishing and sharing a project with families.

How I Use It

I have used it with Kindergarten classes, as a way to wrap up a unit project- with one class, we created an ebook as part of a wrap up on a year-long study of fairy tales. With another Kindergarten class, we created the book to display student narrative and illustrations that summed up a unit on Antartica. In 4th grade last year, students created ebooks that served as manuals to promote an anti-bullying campaign. Students took video of themselves modeling desirable/undesirables behaviors around bullying. The book was a part of a library project that incorporated technology and library science. The app is amazing. I have no problems with it. The only complication with the app is sharing a book with families. Because media will make the book a larger file, you will have to export the book to Itunes, then download the Epub version of the book, and send that Epub to families. The benefit, however, is that parents can add the book to their Ibooks library (if they have an IOS device.)