Collaborative Writing Online and Creating Stories with Storybird

I stumbled on this today: Storybird. It's a kind of Art meets Literacy typ of site and produces wonderful imagination in myself when I try to write so heaven knows what it must do for children!

There are so many illustratons as with tis kind of tool the resourcing is sometimes a little too weak, limited or just turn inappropriate for school as I just found out with Bookrix (Ok for older kids and will post later about it). Limited, as in the quite binding offering from Barnes and Noble where you end up making a book only to find the sharinng function offered in the beginning is lost and you have to purchase the book you're making (e-book $2.99 x 66 in year group means you'd better be in from the get go) Tikatok is here. I will post about that in more depth later.

But for th time being Story bird is just a delight providing you allow the children to view the images forst and build an imaginative journey through the art work after. I suppose this is similar to the porcess of animation. Make the story first and record then animate it.

The great thing about the story bird is that the creators have got it sussed. Sharing and collaborating is key to the success. You can embed any of the stories as I've done below. Sign up and get writing.

To dream again. by Sparkle11 on Storybird

Kerpoof and Digital Story Telling for Primary Children

The Children in Year 3 have been using Kerpoof to make animated stories together with the Easi-speaks and the picture editor within Kerpoof. The templates on Kerpoof are extrmemely varied and allow the children to take their stories to great depths. The children here in this clip were mostly EAL children performing marvellously if a little nervously. 

The video you see here is the display we used for assembly introduced by the 2 children who made the movie in movie maker.

Well Done Year 3!