A collaborative digital storytelling tool. StoryBird
http://storybird.com/
StoryBird is a collaborative digital storytelling tool. You can search from professional artists’ artwork to start building up your story and you can set up a class account, work and moderate your students’ works easily.
Start choosing one of the illustrators work and simply drag&drop the images on the pages of your online book. Add your text and add more pages if you like. You can add other collaborators to your story and start building a story together. The best thing about this tool is that every story is being moderated when they are published.
When you finish, you can navigate the finished product by turning the pages virtually. You can share your Storybird with a link, embedding the story or mailing it.
Storybird is a great tool to support writing activities. The possibilities to use this tools in our classes are endless and here are a few of them:
Give the beginning of a story and ask children to complete the rest of the story.
Children can keep a diary of one of the character’s in one of the illustrations.
Children can create introductions for different topics.
It can be good to ask children to create an introduction about themselves using this tool.
Give text to the children and ask them to find pictures that go along with it.
Storybird can replace book reports, dialogues, letters and essays.
Children can rewrite and reillustrate a traditional story that we all know.
Children can choose the same topic with a theme, but they can come up with different stories.
Children can read a Storybird and they can answer questions about it.
Each class can create a class story in which each child contributes to the story.
They can read a Storybird and write an ending for it.
Read more: http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org/2012/05/03/cool-tools-2-storybird/#ixzz1usTtS8j0