Storybird is a digital storytelling platform that meets National Educational Technology Standards. It allows students to create interactive stories using artwork from Storybird's online catalog. Storybird helps improve students' literacy skills such as vocabulary, language development, identifying themes and genres. Students can practice fluency, collaborate, and publish their stories. Storybird offers a user-friendly interface for multicultural, individualized instruction. Teachers can create class accounts to customize learning activities for students with diverse abilities.

1. StoryBird, 21st Century Storytelling
BY: Stephanie Reid
Administration of Technology Resources
Spring 2013

2. Storybird: A world of endless literacy opportunities…

3. Meets National Educational, Technology, Standards:
2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences
and Assessments Teachers design, develop, and
evaluate authentic learning experiences and
assessment incorporating contemporary tools and
resources to maximize content learning in context and
to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
identified in the NETS·S.
c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and
abilities using digital tools and resources.

4. Storybird’s Educational Benefits:
1. Interactive and visual storytelling
2. Tool to differentiate reading, writing, & language arts
3. Improves vocabulary and language development
4. Helps learners to identify theme: author’s
purpose, plot, etc.
5. Helps learners identify Literary Genre
6. Helps leaners recall events & make predictions

5. Cont’d Storybird’s Educational Benefits
• Practice Fluency
• Collaborate storytelling
• Multicultural and individualized instructional resource tool
• Students may create and publish their stories
• User friendly 21st century technology tool

6. Storybird’s Sign-Up:
URL: www.storybird.com
Storybird’s Terms Agreement:

7. Student/Parent Account:

8. Teacher Class Account:

9. Storybird’s Creative Uses:

10. Storybird makes telling stories very easy.

11. Storybird offers a catalog of artwork.

12. Storybird has educational uses.

13. Creating a story is fun.

14. Storybird References:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/40054/?theme=print

15. Storybird References: (journal articles)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461512000394

16. Additional References:
http://www.dialmformoms.com/best-creative-writing-websites-storybird

17. Additional References:
National Association of
Elementary School Principals
(pdf article)
http://www.naesp.org/