Sunday 14 June 2015

Sharing Students work with Parents



As the term comes to an end it might be nice to share some of the students work with parents. 
As the work is created in a variety of media, printing it out is no longer an option. 


I suggest that you create a student portfolio that piles together the semesters work. Book Creator is a perfect app to compile student work as it holds text, video, images and voice recordings. 

Your options exporting are:

ePub: This format allows the content to stay in a book format but can only be read on a device that can read ePubs. eg an iPad, Mac or through an ePub reader that can be downloaded. 
PDF: PDF will allow the content to be read on any device, however it doesn't allow for any multi media content. Export it as a PDF if you are wanting to print out the content. 
Video: Exporting the content as a video will allow the content to be viewed on any device. The book will automatically flick through the pages and play the Media content. 




Steps:
Once you have selected your format to export. 
- Select "Open in".
- Choose "Dropbox".

Once you have saved it to Dropbox, you can add it to students own files and create a link. 



Once you have copied your link you can share it with parents in a number of ways:
* Email the link directly
* Put the link into Bitly.com and shorten it so that it is easy to type into a web browser. 
* Create a QR code - This can be done through a variety of websites or APPs such as Qrafter.