Every day, new digital tools, programs, and learning softwares are introduced to us to change our teaching style and make it more dynamic and entertaining. Likewise, by just incorporating any of these tools, we will encourage students to become more creative and original with their projects such as story writing, poem writing, and tongue twisters as well. For my first assignment, I decided to choose Story Bird as the main web tool to implement it with my little brother, David. He is an early high school student with a high beginning English level.
To begin, I asked my brother his favorite topics in order to come up with a simple activity that would require the extensive and appropriate use of Story Bird. First, I encouraged him to write his own original story by choosing his favorite pictures to make it very interesting. Second, I provided additional support by helping him with some vocabulary he did not understand by providing the English translation for each word. Third, he finished writing the story and presented to me appropriately. At the end of activity, he stated that using Story Bird was very appealing and suitable for his ongoing learning process. Likewise, he used his previous knowledge and strong inspiration to create an original story written by himself.
Using Story Bird for tutoring and with a group of learners is an excellent collaborative web tool for many writing assignments. In addition, it is an engaging site that will help bring even the most hesitant writers out of their shell. Furthermore, it can be used as a way to collaborate between parent and child. It is the best way to bridge home and school. You could then have a Book Share day where parents come in and read the story with their child to the rest of the class.
On the other hand, you could also find another class from another state or country to work with. Pair up students from the two classes and have them write a story together. Each child will bring their own style to the story while working together. Similarly, each class can work on them when they have an opportunity so the stories do not have to be worked on at the exact same time. Once the stories are finished, the teacher can use Skype to communicate with the other class and have students take turns reading stories. Each pair could read the pages they wrote from the book. Last but not least, a story can also just be used to have students write on their own. The fact that the work can stay unpublished until it is finished allows it to be worked on over several class periods.
In conclusion, Story Bird is a collaborative tool for storytelling. Once the art is chosen, students are able to build there story by dragging and dropping pictures and creating a story to match. It’s great for teachers because they are able to easily create student accounts and assignments for students. It is also simple to collaborate with others whether it’s another student in class or someone from another country. Therefore, Story Bird is an extremely engaging site that allows students to focus more on the content of their writing rather than drawing pictures because they are already available for them to be creative in choosing the appropriate pictures for a story.
To begin, I asked my brother his favorite topics in order to come up with a simple activity that would require the extensive and appropriate use of Story Bird. First, I encouraged him to write his own original story by choosing his favorite pictures to make it very interesting. Second, I provided additional support by helping him with some vocabulary he did not understand by providing the English translation for each word. Third, he finished writing the story and presented to me appropriately. At the end of activity, he stated that using Story Bird was very appealing and suitable for his ongoing learning process. Likewise, he used his previous knowledge and strong inspiration to create an original story written by himself.
Using Story Bird for tutoring and with a group of learners is an excellent collaborative web tool for many writing assignments. In addition, it is an engaging site that will help bring even the most hesitant writers out of their shell. Furthermore, it can be used as a way to collaborate between parent and child. It is the best way to bridge home and school. You could then have a Book Share day where parents come in and read the story with their child to the rest of the class.
On the other hand, you could also find another class from another state or country to work with. Pair up students from the two classes and have them write a story together. Each child will bring their own style to the story while working together. Similarly, each class can work on them when they have an opportunity so the stories do not have to be worked on at the exact same time. Once the stories are finished, the teacher can use Skype to communicate with the other class and have students take turns reading stories. Each pair could read the pages they wrote from the book. Last but not least, a story can also just be used to have students write on their own. The fact that the work can stay unpublished until it is finished allows it to be worked on over several class periods.
In conclusion, Story Bird is a collaborative tool for storytelling. Once the art is chosen, students are able to build there story by dragging and dropping pictures and creating a story to match. It’s great for teachers because they are able to easily create student accounts and assignments for students. It is also simple to collaborate with others whether it’s another student in class or someone from another country. Therefore, Story Bird is an extremely engaging site that allows students to focus more on the content of their writing rather than drawing pictures because they are already available for them to be creative in choosing the appropriate pictures for a story.
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