Category: Collaboration

Aboriginal Ranger STEM virtual excursions

World-first, Aboriginal Rangers presented the first STEM virtual excursion to schools on 16 March and 6 April 2022 and students are documenting their learning into published books.

Almost 1,000 students attended the proof-of-concept excursion on Turtle monitoring, where Rangers from Kimberley, WA and Cape York, QLD delivered curriculum-aligned STEM content on wildlife maintenance, conservation strategies, and data collection for research, …

Templates for Literacy & Communication

Students have many choices for design templates and tools, but only FamilyBookform has templates to guide students in Literacy and Communication, and automatically create digital and print books.

Books showcase students' inquiry learning and can be a micro-credential in their portfolios.

Students follow template pages, with

• question prompts & writing tips,
• speech-to-text, most languages
• collaboration with invited others,

All content is …

Dec 2021 Book Competition Winner

Digital book 1 min video

Virginia’s acceptance video

Virginia, a Grade 10 student at a Science High School in Italy, joined the FamilyBookform online course facilitated by Dr Monita Leavitt in California during Italy’s hard lockdowns in 2021.

The course was in English, but students had the option to write, speak and interview others in their native language directly into …

Nov 21 Book Winner

Year 7 student wins the November Best Book Competition

1 min student thank you video

Adam created his family’s biography book as a part of the Champagnat Boys College English life writing unit.

His book was over 100 pages and he was awarded a Chromebook by Harvey Norman and the best 5 students’ books were printed by the school and …

Australian virtual excursions into books

Monthly Australian virtual excursions showcased as books. 1 min video.

Students watch live Aboriginal Ranger video presentations on wildlife & conservation programs from all around Australia and document learnings into books to showcase, gift, or sell.

Register your class.

Students interact with Rangers, ask questions, and document their text and photos into collaborative class books. 

Students present their content in class …

Word/Docs v FamilyBookform

Word & Docs are subscriptions for unlimited blank pages with no student guidance, our technology is:

1 license = 1 book-creating dashboard, with:

• template pages & question prompts,

• speech-to-text, most languages,

• contributions from invited others,

• writing help & explainer videos,

• automatically collates content into a published digital book,

• download PDF to print & audio to save,

• funded by businesses & …

How, What, Why of Learning

3 min explainer video 

The FamilyBookform technology combines:

• Writing

• Templates

• Publishing

• Communication

• Funding, Revenue & Marketing

With Universal Design Learning frameworks for the ‘How, What, Why’ of learning.

How

Writing: A dynamic page to personalize & differentiate - speak, type & collaborate to input & collect content onto the page.

What

Templates: Template pages & question prompts guide the …

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 …