Give student writing purpose and meaning through the creation of interactive books. Interactive books make it easy to share student writing projects with a broad audience, helping to engage students and inspire them to produce their best work.
Students can use Wixie to write, illustrate, and record stories and nonfiction. Once students are finished writing, they can share their work online, or export work as an ePub file.
After reading Eric Carle's The Grouchy Butterfly, students published their own story to show their understanding of elapsed time.
Ask students to share their new found knowledge by creating their own informational texts. Individual students can write their own books or use an ABC format to create a class eBook.
Put students in the author's seat and encourage narrative writing, by asking them to write and illustrate their own fables.
Poetry's purposeful word choice encourages close, careful reading. Have student demonstrate "understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings" by creating visual poems. Print versions are beautiful but eBooks let them record for intonation and fluency.
Want to learn more about creating eBooks with your students? This Creative Educator article looks into ways to motivate students by creating ePubs in the classroom.
Kinders read “Ten Black Dots” and then made their own books on Wixie where they imagined what the dots could be. They were so creative! pic.twitter.com/iVBWILhRTI
— Mrs. Feathers (@MrsFeathersSBTS) January 24, 2023
Thank you for inviting me your classrooms today, @LCPSLegacy 5th grade teachers! I loved being a part of your @Wixie_T4L gallery walks to check out some awesome cause and effect books! pic.twitter.com/469KJ0YrEt
— Logan McIntosh (@JLoganMcIntoshV) October 27, 2023
Mr. Knowlton & Mr. Shuey, @SocStudiesAACPS @AnnapHS_AACPS have students use @Wixie_T4L to create digital books based on research about the Vietnam War. Students worked with partners and used text, audio, images, and talkies to convey information. #aacpsawesome #BelongGrowSucceed pic.twitter.com/mGUY5M2KYL
— Instructional Technology, AACPS (@aacpsoit) March 21, 2024
We’re so happy!😁 We get to keep our @LEGO_Education builds forever by taking pictures in our @Tech4Learning Wixie Lego books! @BCPS_Magnet pic.twitter.com/4TcqiHBRaD
— We are CVE STEAM🌟 (@WeAreCVESTEAM) October 26, 2023
@Jennife20928054 Fourth graders used Wixie to create their own library books for others to read. They included a table of contents and cited their sources in a bibliography. Great way for them to be Communicators and Contributors! 📖 @HorizonElem pic.twitter.com/6eekyJaXJX
— Miss Staples (@HRZIFT) February 15, 2023
Second graders working in Wixie on their digital class book. The recording boxes worked great. #wixie @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/AIqciGMUig
— Jonathan Battista (@vrestechnology) March 23, 2022
KG Ss create their own 5 senses books in #Wixie @Tech4Learning @TreadwellMrs @ColesRoadrunner pic.twitter.com/IEA72EGeXD
— Mrs. Martin (@ITCColes) December 1, 2021
Spring scavenger hunt! ECE kiddos taking pictures to create their signs of Spring Book in #Wixie! @Tech4Learning #ForestHills101 pic.twitter.com/hOP4mvPsTv
— Beth Tortorello (@FHTechTeacher) April 6, 2021
Students wrote about a topic they are experts on and used Wixie to turn it into a book, complete with text features! So impressed with how these turned out #SpottedatLOW pic.twitter.com/E005ysQDin
— Allie Verna (@MissVerna5) December 11, 2020
These All Stars ?? LOVE #wixie! After exploring the tools & options in one big #collaborative eBook project today, we are ready to start our small group eBooks on Famous African Americans next week. Stay tuned! #LifeReady #ESinnovate @AAES_hva @Tech4Learning @mamaduckdiane #HLP pic.twitter.com/LhP337CmgK
— CoachReid (@CoachReid3) February 8, 2019
Our latest passion project: an ebook about narwhals. Read it here:https://t.co/uWc9Rt48u3 #tech4learning #wixie #FlemRarSchools #CopperHillES pic.twitter.com/0ACexiXyb3
— MrsMooreFRSD (@MrsMooreFRSD) March 2, 2018
We also started a class book on Wixie about money. Today, we worked on the cover and the page all about the penny. Stay tuned to see how it turns out?? pic.twitter.com/QaMQxpPMYE
— TeamOneder (@TeamOneder) March 25, 2019
Lots of fun with our kindergarten pals working on Wixie. We are making an ebook based on the book Snowmen at Night. #FlemRarSchools #CopperHillES #tech4learning pic.twitter.com/Er3CpMMp5t
— MrsMooreFRSD (@MrsMooreFRSD) December 22, 2017
My students created memory books in #tech with the one and only @sarahmtechie she is THE best!! Here were a few of my favorite memories too. ?? #wixie #tech @hcpss_lwes pic.twitter.com/etq5r6ONH5
— Lauren Leclercq (@msleclercq) May 25, 2019
Ss synthesizing, illustrating, and creating voice over to their Native American research into #eBook that will be published and shared with oneanother. #DLDay @OfficialDLDay #Literacy #content #blendedlearning #5C @Wixie @mhwahaba @MikelleWilliams5 pic.twitter.com/O2FxjBymbr
— Michelle Pressley (@Tekkinheels) February 28, 2019
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