In New Literacies and Media, I explored several technological tools which could be used in writer's workshop and help to increase student motivation to write. One such tool was Storybird.com. Storybird.com is a website where students can create their own digital story book. These books can be digital, printed on a printer, or published for a small fee. Storybird.com has a large bank of different types of pictures. Students choose a picture, having something to do with the topic they are writing about, and write the lines in the book. Storybird.com allows the students to write both fiction and nonfiction books, while differentiating instruction for each individual student as needed. Below are several examples of digital books that were created as whole group activities and independent student activities. The students were able to integrate what they were learning in areas such as social studies and science, and then use that information to create and publish their own digital book.
Storybird.com
Click on the links below to see some of the books students have published using Storybird and writing daily with writer's workshop. These examples also integrated science with their writing.
Bat Books:
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-12/?token=3ysum4f7y3 This is one motivated student, he wrote 17 pages!
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-16/?token=vqusyktn6n
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-13/?token=a2pqmtxyuc
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-15/?token=mhwwner5c3
https://storybird.com/books/bats-68/?token=s7b4xwcazz
https://storybird.com/books/about-bats-3/?token=wmc9jkkkr2
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-10/?token=wu8wr2dtzk
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-bats-11/?token=j7q73w9p8y One of my Chinese students
Spider Stories (kids did these on their own!)
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-spiders-5/?token=477t3kwe7s
https://storybird.com/books/all-about-spiders-4/?token=qxcxbknzrk
Click on the link below to see how Storybird.com was used in my classroom to produce some of the above books.
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