Screenshots For Story Jumper
Students, use these screenshots to help you with your book!
** To make the screenshots bigger to look at them, just simply click on the picture and it will become bigger for you!**
First Step!
- When you first get on Story Jumper, you'll be on a page where it says "My Books". You will then need to click "Create New Book".
Step 2!
When you first click on "Create New Book", you'll pop up with a screen like this picture to the left. You'll automatically start on page 2, you can do either a picture of your own, a scene, or solid color! Your choice! However, whatever picture you put on page 2 it will be your cover picture! So pick a picture that you would love to have as your book cover picture!
Lets Keep Making Our Book!
Scene Section
Under the "Scene" section, you can find many different scenes. Like this tree scene.
Text Section
Under the "Text" section, you'll be able to choose from a few different text box choices so you can write about your scene or picture! Just like on the screenshot. You can also change font and color as well!
When done, click over to next page!
When you are done with the pages you're on, click either the arrows at the bottom or you can go to the top and click the page numbers (the red square at the top) and then you can begin making another page to your book!
Hopefully you're figuring it out so far! I hope you're enjoying it!!
Adding Your Own Picture
If you want to add your own picture, go under "Photo" tab, and you'll pop up with a page that looks like the one to the left! You can either search for a photo that is not yours on flickr, or you can click upload picture from computer.
Upload Picture Step 1
Click browse and find the picture you want!
Upload Picture Step 2
When you find your picture you want, double click or click upload and it will begin to upload. When finished uploading, it will then look like this screenshot. Click done when finished!
Upload Picture Step 3
When the upload is complete it will show up under the "photo" tab. You will then click the picture and it will ask you if you want to set it as a prop or a scene. A prop makes a small icon and the scene is the whole background, like the screenshot above. You will then crop the picture how you like and push done and it will go to your book!
Flickr
You can search for pictures in flickr to use for your book as well.
Prop
When adding a prop, go under "prop" tab. You can either search a prop that you have in mind or use one that you find that you like that will go great with your story. Just click the prop you like and it will show you on your story!
Using Flickr
When using Flickr, it will act just like uploading a picture from your computer. You find the picture you like, click upload, and then it will show up under the "photo" tab in which you can pick and will show up for a page in your book! In the screenshot above, the whole background is a scene from flickr and the small like icon is a prop from the "prop" tab.
Dedication Page
On the top of the page, where all the small squares are, click the box that says dedication page. This page is where you can dedicate your book to anyone! You can change the font and the color as well!
Cover
After finishing the dedication page, go over to Cover. You will then add a title to your book and the attribution you will put "By: Your Name". You can also change the font, color, and the book covers color as well.
When Finished!
Congratulations! You are finished!! When finished, raise your hand and I will come around! When I get there, we will make push save and then exit. After that, this is what shows up, exactly like the screenshot above. You can either buy your book or push the little play button to show your book!
Showing The Class!
After everyone is finished, we will then show the class everyone's book! I can't wait to see what you guys create and what you guys did during spring break!