Category: Collaboration

NESA accredited STEAM workshop for FamilyBookform launched

The FamilyBookform workshop is now a NESA accredited 2hour workshop delivered through the Teachers' Guild NSW.

This interactive workshop will guide teachers to improve literacy, engagement, and social emotional skills with an online book-creating tool, that scaffolds students to interview their family and collect oral stories, and improve their critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are required for success in …

AWS feature FamilyBookform

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Research shows that social emotional learning (SEL) increases student engagement at school, increases academic achievement, and helps students to be more successful in all aspects of life. 

FamilyBookForm, an AWS EdStart Member, aims to encourage SEL through their online book creation tool that allows K12 students to interview members of their family or community to collect spoken stories, in any …

Jeff Mao Education podcast with FamilyBookform

Jeff Mao interviews Carey Furze, FamilyBookform Founder - Listen to 45 min podcast

Excerpt from the interview...

And from an academic perspective, what’s to be gained through these stories? Through these interviews? 

Schools have been getting students to interview their grandparents or someone special in their life for decades, we all know the huge cross-curricular & social-emotional benefits from doing …

Empowering students through technology: podcast

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Education podcast 'Teacher Chatter' interviewed Melissa Carson, Director of Teaching and Learning at Champagnat College Pagewood, about her experience with Year 7s using the Family Bookform technology for the English 'Life Writing' unit, in an effort to improve Literacy and Family engagement. 

This project contributes to Ms Carson’s ‘Boys’ Literacy Research’, to be …

Blakehurst High 'COVID-19 & Me' Book

Blakehurst High’s Collaborative Book

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7K finished book

Blakehurst High School’s Year 7 English Enrichment teachers Bahia Malas and Kerry-Anne Faria, have students using FamilyBookform’s technology to easily create their ‘Coronavirus & Me’ Collaborative Class Book as part of their three phase enrichment project. This project is being delivered using the Project-Based Learning pedagogy, which allows students to …

Online Writing Enrichment - Grades 7-12

Improve literacy, engagement, and Social Emotional skills with an online book-creating tool that scaffolds students to interview their family and collect oral stories, using speech-to-text and contributions. 

Students communicate and connect to create an original, valuable book that can be graded, included in portfolios, gifted and sold.

Example: 

My Family’s Favourite Recipes Book - students collect their favourite food into …

Students collaborate to create ICT Class book

The Global Indian International School in Singapore (GIIS) Year 6 & 7 students used a new online dashboard to collaborate remotely and create an anthology Class Book as a ICT project.

The FamilyBookform online dashboard enabled the teacher, Maria Tymosiewicz in the English Department, to start 4 class books and invite the students in each class to contribute a chapter …

Coronavirus - online PBL for students at home

Coronavirus project - Students kept at home for health precautions is an ideal time to do a FamilyBookform project. Video: https://youtu.be/XkxV0WTjgc8

Students interview their family members, using speech-to-text & contributions from others, to collect personal life experiences & oral histories into printable digital books.

Or, teachers easily create class books by sending an automated link to their class or year …

Collect & Share Student’s Experiences

Would sharing personal experiences and the local effects of devastating fires help prevent the disconnected young people in our communities from committing arson?

Sharing stories is how humans make sense of the world and their place in it. This is an opportunity for teachers to collect their students experiences, feelings and concerns about this summer’s terrible fire season into a …