Storybird: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.

Who What Where When and Why

UEN:

Reading: Literature. Standard 1, 2nd grade Language Arts

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Education Technology:

Standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. (3, 4)

ISTE:
Knowledge Constructor Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

The tool that I chose to use was Storybird.  I created a picture book, but you could choose to create a picture book, long form books, or poetry.  This was a great tool for making your own story and/or teaching a subject.  It was a great way to get creative juices flowing and show creativity.  This would be a great tool to use in a classroom and it would also be great to make a story that you could print off and give to my students.  

Pros of this Storybird tool are that you can make any story that you would like to, you can search for beautiful and fun pictures that will go along with the subject of your book.  You can also print out the stories that you create for a decent price.  

Cons of this tool would be the picture choosing selecting.  It was a bit difficult to decide what pictures to use because although the pictures were amazing and wonderful, you could either choose to use a page of all different types of pictures or you could use a specific artists pictures. When you choose between the two types of pictures you can’t go back, at least I couldn’t find a way to do that.  

I would use this in my future classroom by creating fun and personalized books that my students could read.  I think that if I were to do so that would be an awesome way for my future students to feel important and appreciated.  

My students could use this tool if they want to write their own story.  It would be fun for them to use because they could make any type of story with any theme or story line. I think that it would be fun for them to make their own story and then you could possibly print out the stories and share them with my classes every year.