🖼️ Create vivid AI images of stories

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🖼️ Create vivid images of a story with AI

When you read a story, you probably picture it in your mind as if it were a movie.

How the setting looks. What the characters look like. The way it all looks as it plays out.

What if you could create that image you have in your mind?

And show it to others?

In today’s guest post, Caleb Wilson shares a brilliant lesson to help students identify vivid details in a story — and turn them into a prompt for AI-generated images.

Here are Caleb’s steps:

1. Assign the text for students to read.

2. Have students identify key details to describe the setting.

3. Use them to create a prompt for an AI-generated image.

4. Have students analyze the image, looking for the details they included in the prompt.

5. Students can trade images and analyze.

In the post, Caleb shares an example he created with the book Robinson Crusoe — the details from the book, the prompt he wrote, the images he created, etc.

BONUS: He includes three extensions for this lesson:

• Character Visualization

• Historical Context

• Creative Writing

Read more: Classroom AI 101: Imagining Story Setting with Text-Evidence Supported Prompting

💻 Tech Tip

📚 Easily publish and share writing with Book Creator

When kids create for an audience beyond the classroom, they put in waaaaaay more effort. Turn your students into authors during the month of March (Be an Author Month) with Book Creator.

Book Creator is a digital tool that makes it possible for anyone to create, publish, and share their own digital books.

With Book Creator, you can:

• Use pre-made templates and themes to get your imagination rolling.

• Save your books as PDFs or publish them online for others to view and read.

• Book Creator works on the web, on iPads, and Chromebooks.

Some of our favorite features that make any age students FEEL like authors:

• 50 hand-picked fonts to choose from to add a unique style

• The ability to drop in video or music, or even record your voice which is perfect for younger students or ebook creation!

• Shapes, icons, arrows, and emojis to express your ideas to add focus or enhance the story

• Use the pen tool to draw illustrations

Ready to get started?

Here are some resources from Book Creator’s Be An Author Month resource library.

• Join in the global adventure! TWIMA = The World Is My Audience. This year Book Creator is asking classrooms across the world to write their own personal narrative and create a book on the theme: This Is Me.

• Check out this “Welcome to Book Creator” book that will show you why you should use Book Creator and take you through the steps of getting started.

• Visit the BaAM teacher resource hub to get templates, lesson ideas, and activities to help you make the most of Be An Author month (March).

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