3.+Mixbook

=Mixbook=

A completed example of a Mixbook:
A Mixbook being used for a report over the American Revolution with students writing their report using haiku verses. media type="custom" key="10316779"

Cultural Heritage This is a mixbook I created after doing a GRASP activity with my students in Social Studies. || Mixbook is a program in which people can insert pictures and text into an online book-like format. After finishing, the author can either save the book or order a printed version of the book. || **Pros:** create a student authored book, create a classroom yearbook for students that could not afford one, create a how to book students could create a grammar help book have students develop tricky word problems for others to solve, have the students write an explanation for the problem make a timeline book of students lives have students create a book over science experiments throughout the year and include instructions for the experiments ||
 * = ===Web 2.0 Tool=== ||= ===Description=== ||= ===Pros/Cons=== ||= ===Possible Uses in Class=== ||
 * Mixbook
 * Photos can be uploaded from multiple locations (computer, Facebook, PhotoBucket) onto the pages.
 * Others can be invited to add to the book, while the creater is still able to edit what is added. Students could be invited to add, and the teacher edit.
 * The program offers a short tutorial.
 * Cons:**
 * Backgrounds and other items are divided up into themes, but there are several to choose from. There are too many for students to make a quick decision about.
 * Often hard to drag and drop pictures, and once picture is placed, it is hard to change the picture. Students would have to hit the undo button often.
 * Great for making a photo book but there are not a lot of text boxes in some of the examples. Students would have to be taught how to add them. || **Reading:**
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Sources:
Mixbook. (2011). About mixbook. Retrieved August 30, 2011 from @http://www.mixbook.com/