Animals are Everywhere!

Currently I am in the process of making my own humane education eBook titled Animals are Everywhere! I got the idea for this eBook after reading Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! I personally feel that eBooks are great tools for the classroom and want to make an eBook that I can use in the classroom. The eBook has many levels of development. First I created a storyboard including pictures and text for each slide. Then I edited the content and started creating the pictures for the eBook. Once the pictures were completed and scanned I started working with Power Point. I put each picture with its corresponding slide. The I added text to each slide. The next step was to clean up each slide by cropping pictures, editing text, and placing all the items on the slides. All that is left is to create the audio of the text, add it to the slide, and time the slide to transition after the audio finishes.

The challenges of the project are often having the equipment to make the eBook and the proper organizational tools to get everything done. A storyboard is necessary to organize the construction of the eBook. Without a storyboard the book would have needed more revisions then necessary. This will definitely help educators in many areas organization is necessary to work with these technologies and with other aspects of school.

The eBook is working out wonderfully and is about animal habitats. The eBook I have created asks students to look at different animals, identify them, and in an interactive quiz show they learned what habitat the animals are from.