Storybird+Expert+Group

//By: Donna, Meagan, Katlyn, Shelley (Our group is known as SKDM) //

Storybird is a creative way to design your very own short story online and allowing people all over the world to access your work. It's much like becoming a writer without the long drawn out process of going to an editor and pleading a company to publish your work. It can be used in a school environment; a teacher may wish to create his or her own story based on a lesson plan. Or students themselves can create their own storybird and their classmates may comment and give feed back through discussion posts. Students can also invite other class mates to join in on their story. If a teacher creates a classroom story bird up they can have up to 30 students participate at once. Teachers can bookmark stories they want to read to the class. This is ideal to develop a student’s understanding of plots, sequence, transitional words and a higher level of thinking. It saves teachers time because it requires minimal preparation time.

In a school setting Storybird can be useful for ideal fundraisers, the stories are shareable and printable, and like listed above they are great to teach social reinforcement. Storybird can be a wonderful visual aide that can grab the attention of any classroom. Storybird can also be used for one’s own entertainment or perhaps for the benefit of one’s own child perhaps. The program is very simple to use; anyone can create an account, but it best use is in a classroom setting. Once you’ve created an account you may explore other stories created and you may also create your own Storybird. Once clicking on the create tab there are illustrations from a variety of artist. There are keywords that are meant to inspire a story.

To access all the amazing possibility of creating your very own story it’s as simple as going to [|www.storybird.com]. This site is easy to navigate and fun to use!

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 * This **** is a fun video that can give a brief tutorial on how to use this website ** !

__//** OUR VERY OWN STORYBIRDS: **//__ [] Meagan

[] Shelley

[] Katlyn

[] Donna

__Questions__

1. How many students can join a classroom story bird? a. none b. 5 c. 30 d. infinite number

2. What do you need to create ab account on Storybird? a. email b. photo i.d. c. phone number d. social security number