Guidelines+for+BookBuilder+Book

Read this Tips and Resources section on the Book Builder website:

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/resources.php Spend about 20 minutes browsing the content in the above link, including "Hot Tips", "Features", "Media", "Using Model Books," and "Accessibility". The goal of browsing this section is to gain the big-picture idea of what Book Builder allows you to do. You don't need to know how to create a book yet, as we'll do that during the class. Just get a broad idea of this technology, that's all. The important thing to do is to take a look at the ideas and suggestions offered to guide you through making decisions about selecting a subject, genre, audience, etc.

Think about your books:
 * Intended audience, target students, outcome to be accomplished, genre, purpose, etc. The following questions may be of help:
 * What can it do? What learning purposes does it serve?
 * What technological features or components should be incorporated to help you accomplish these purposes?
 * Who will be the audience (age, grade, reading level, and developmental needs)
 * What book content?
 * What do you want your readers to experience or learn?
 * the setting in which you imagine your audience using your book
 * What scaffolding support should the book be able to provide for diverse learners?
 * What media (text, audio, illustrations, photos, and diagrams) would you like to be able to include for this book? Why?
 * Other levels of support?

Think about your materials:
 * Do you have specific images, audio clips (up to 2 clips per page, smaller than 1024 KB per clip in size), and other resources you'd like to include in your book?
 * Do you want to record your voice for the text on each page?
 * Do you want to use one real photo in place of that of one of the animated coaches?
 * How would you store these resources you have in mind? (Consider Google Docs)