Making Your First Webbe

Supplies

Collect or locate the following equipment.

·         Digital Camera - Doesn't matter what kind

·         Some heavier grade 8.5 X 11 inch paper, 70 lb. Offset, with a little shininess to it w orks great, go od look and feel. Regular copy I typing paper is too thin and the illustrations can been seen through on the other side.

·         Computer with some kind of word processing software (Microsoft Word)

·         Color Printer. Webbes can be made in black & white or grayscale

Plan  

Identify some kind of experience that you and the students would like to remember and celebrate later. The possibilities are unlimited!

How to Books	Field Trips	Bilingual Books
Emergent Readers	Reports	Welcome to School
Documentaries	Personal Stories	Science Experiments

Enjoy the experience, taking pictures as your field trip, experiment, guest speaker, play, competition or unit unfolds. Remember that with digital cameras more photos are always better than fewer. If you don't like some you can pitch them now or later, but if you miss a shot, it's gone forever. Take maybe two to four times as many as you will need.

Organize

·         Create a contact sheet or print out thumbnail size (10-20 per page) of photos.  Share the photos with the learners.  Determine as a group, which photos might be useful. We're looking for ten good ones (one for the cover and 9 for the contents), so you'll want to have selected fifteen or more to ~ make choices from as the text is created.

·         Create a New Folder for each different webbe book.

·         Identifying the audience for their webbe.  Determine what kind of impact you would like to have on that audience (If they don't know how to do that, put it in your list of things to teach and as they watch your demonstration of how you do it, offer them a think aloud about the impact the YOU've selected for the audience)

·         Sequencing the photos in a manner that would be appropriate for that audience and impact. Use Webbe Manuscript or Webbe Storyboard.  

·         Create text to go with each photo. The text should be crafted like any text for the audience and impact you've selected.

·         Translating your book into another language if needed or desired, providing for ESL, second language learning or immigrant populations.

 

Create

·         Using the Storyboard 10 template (on desktop) insert pictures and type in text.  Print.

·         Construct a SCREEN webbe of your book using Webbe Template (on desktop). That means inserting photos and text appropriately, following the directions on the template. In each case the directions must be fully highlighted so what you enter replaces it completely.

·         If you select a Printable two language template (which offers places to put your text into two languages) insert your second language also.

·         Save as… with a unique name for your webbe in your webbe folder.

Print 

See Printing, collating, cutting & binding Directions

Read   

Read, celebrate, enjoy and above all, SHARE your Webbe!

 

Do you want to create a Webbe online? ·         Download RealeWriter from www.realebooks.com ·         Describe (type in information) ·         Create (add images from webbe folder)  ·         Type in text (online webbe is not limited to 10 pages) ·         Sequence & organize ·         Share (email it to yourself & friends) You may have to check  your “junk mail” ·         Do not print - *if you want to print your online webbe, please do it at home.  Note: You will have to download the RealeWriter on your home computer before you can print.