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This document provides information about two online tools, Story Bird and Story Jumper, that can be used for writing activities and assignments. Story Bird is free for educators and allows students to collaboratively write stories using pictures. Suggested activities include having students write sentences using details from a picture or write a beginning, middle, and end to a story using three pictures. Story Jumper is also free for educators and has options for graphic organizers, idea generation, and sharing stories in multiple formats. The document suggests example writing activities and assignments that could be done using these tools.
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- 1. The Writing’s on the Virtual Wall... On-Line Tools for Writing Cheryl Russell-School District 10
- 2. Story Bird Check out the classroom edition for step-by-step instructions! http://storybird.com/teachers/
- 3. What’s awesome Free for Educators including three classes and 75 students. Any more than that costs $$ You can keep books “private”. Class monitoring is simple. Accessible from anywhere. Can be shared/emailed/embedded
- 4. Suggestions for use: You send a specific assignment to students to complete. Students create their own works. Students collaborate on one story.
- 5. What it might look like... Students select one picture and then write sentences utilizing as many details as possible. Students put themselves into the story as a character, interacting with the characters in the art they chose. Limit students to 3 pictures to write a story beginning, middle and end. Create a word problem based on an image.
- 6. Story Jumper Check out the classroom edition for step-by-step instructions! http://www.storyjumper.com/main/ classroom
- 7. What’s awesome Free for Educators including multiple classes. “Safe” and easy for teacher to monitor Step-by-step instructions to set up and printables to send home. Variety of options for writing Can be shared in multiple ways
- 8. Suggestions for use: Students complete graphic organizers before building a story. Students use Story Jumper to generate ideas for a story.
- 9. What it might look like... fictional narratives instructions for new students coming to your school collaborative writing projects within or outside your building summaries of units, to be used for formative assessment purposes Write-to-self, Read Aloud
- 10. Empower Students. Engage them. Make their voice heard.
- 11. Thank you for your time! Contact me at russechd@nbed.nb.ca twitter: @russechd
- 12. A few more resources.. Tech 20 Tuesdays - A great place to learn in 20 mins. Lots of presentations are already stored here: http://tech20tuesday.wikispaces.com/ http:// caffeinatedteaching.wordpress.com/ 2011/01/06/writing-ideas-for-storybird/ Story Jumper: http:// teachweb2.wikispaces.com/Storyjumper
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