How Apple can improve students struggling with writing

I soon changed jobs and moved to Alliance City Schools. The iBook ideas continued and we soon published two more iBooks using iBooks Author. Again, things were going smoothly until one day when I met Pam, a speech and language pathologist for one of the elementary schools in Alliance. This begins the journey of my use with the Book Creator app.

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Pam was referred to me by our district network manager. She was in need of instruction on using iMovie on her iPad. I knew I could help her so we met to discuss using the iMovie app. She explained to me that she had a group of 4th grade autistic boys that needed some serious motivating and help. They weren’t interested in doing any kind of work at all and she thought iMovie would help. I asked her what they were struggling with and she mentioned social skills. Immediately my mind went from iMovie mode into something else, something more powerful.

I explained to Pam that I had another idea. It was an app I recently learned about. I was looking for a group of guinea pigs and this was the perfect opportunity for me to try Book Creator out with a group of students. Pam explained to me this was a tough group of kids. She looked at me with cautious eyes when I explained that we were going to write a book using the Book Creator app.

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She looked at me like I was on drugs when I told her we weren’t only going to write a book but that we were also going to publish this book for the entire world to download. I began meeting with her and her students once a week. I explained to the students that they would soon be globally published authors.

They were so excited about their book it was contagious. We began using the Book Creator app to make videos of inappropriate social skills interactions (this wasn’t difficult because this is what they did on a daily basis). We also made videos of appropriate interactions (great learning opportunity for the kids).

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