Category: Collaboration

Learning Under Lockdown with FamilyBookform

by Monita Leavitt, Ph.D.

“Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.” Steve Jobs 

I have been an online instructor of gifted, twice-exceptional, and homeschool middle and high school students at Athena’s Advanced Academy (CA, USA) for the past several years. Due to Covid, more and more students experienced learning through technology. In collaboration with Step-Net, a …

Students Daring Greatly

We all know Brene Brown, the famous qualitative researcher and viral story-teller, who speaks passionately about how to be brave, vulnerable, and choose ‘courage over comfort’ to live a more satisfying life. 

The Power of Vulnerability video

Qualitative research involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, images, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used …

Students paid to learn

Every student a published qualitative researcher

New Edutech scaffolds & documents student’s qualitative research into published books, developing 21st century skills and transformational learning, funded by communities.

The FamilyBookform dashboard empowers Students to speak into the page, interview others & collaborate, using question prompts, speech-to-text in any language, and all content is automatically formatted into digital books to share …

Competition winner!

The first FamilyBookform book-creating competition monthly winner was announced today. A Year 6 Sydney girl won with her ‘Covid & My Family’ collaborative book. 

She used the FamilyBookform dashboard to automatically collect stories & photos from her family & friends on how the pandemic had affected them and all the contributions were automatically compiled into her digital book to share …

Save India: Summer projects Grades 6-12

Students collect precious voices, stories & photos into published books to save disappearing culture, language & community during Covid, as school projects over summer.

The FamilyBookform dashboard scaffolds & documents student’s inquiry learning; they interview themselves or others, using question prompts, speech-to-text (any language), & collect valuable cultural content into published books, developing 21st century skills, empathy & Social Emotional …

Student Journals

Have you seen the movie ‘Freedom Writers’? About a teacher who had teenage students journal their lives, in an effort to improve literacy, engagement & grades, but also achieved transformational learning & a movement for change. See interviews.

FamilyBookform technology empowers students to easily journal, by speaking (any language) their feelings, perspectives & experiences directly into a page & …

Book-creating Competition, monthly cash prizes

Book-creating Competition with monthly cash prizes:

$50 prize for Teacher's Collaborative Class books & 

$100 prize for Student's books. 

Info & terms: https://forms.gle/G7Nzxg6WzzTWKzgj9

Teachers or students use the FamilyBookform technology to speak, write, interview & collect content into their automatically formatted printable digital books.
All books are private until shared.
All digital books are published/hosted online for 1 year & include: …

Australia Day STEAM Book - FREE

Australia Day STEAM Book Project - FREE

Automatically collect student’s content into Collaborative Cultural books for discussion & celebration of what it means to be Australian in 2021.

Digital books online for 1 year, 100 contributors per book, print on demand.

1. Teachers sign up free to create their Class’ Collaborative book: 3 min explainer video

2. Automatically collect students ‘My Australia …

Writing tool for transformational learning

Schools are leading the evolution of writing and publishing tools, and one is a ‘dynamic page’ to easily write, create and collect primary source content into printable digital books of value for authentic audiences.

As youth literacy declines and methods of rote learning and standardised testing undergo huge transformation, some students are leaping forward in their literacy and communication skills …