Write story using STORYBIRD

I miss you... by nuomanuomi on Storybird
This is a sample of my story.so what is STORYBIRD it is a website that you can use to create your own story board.It is really fun and interesting with all the beautiful pictures.

Sample of pictures that you can used in your story.

STORYBIRD AND TEACHING??

HOW?1. mainly Storybird can be used to teach writing.Students can put their writing into short movie which would be fun to be shared to their classmates.-for example,teacher can ask students to write a narrative essay.Then, based on their essay,create a movie.From this,teacher can see clearly what the students try to express in their essay because sometimes due to lack of vocabulary  or  low level learner they might not be able to put their thoughts into words.Thus,teacher might not understand their story or misunderstood.Teacher can help students to improve their essay when teacher understand what the students try to express.
2.Teacher can make a collaborative work with students where teacher write the beginning of the story and ask students to continue the story. This could be fun as different students will end the story differently even though they all have the same beginning.
3. Students can do this as collaborative work as well.Students can invite their friends to join a story that they are writing.One have to write after another.They have to continue after another.However,this is little bit hard as students might not be able to continue each other story.Therefore,teacher need to let students have a draft of their story first before they put it on story bird.

From the Menu you can invite collaborator in writing the story

ADVANTAGES1.FREE and FUN- you just need to register your email address so that you can save your work and edited from time to time.It is fun to students because it can help to enhance their imagination with all the interesting pictures can give them more idea to write.2.CLASS GROUP.Teacher and students would be able to have a class group in story bird where they can share among themselves their stories.

click on the YOU,and choose CLASSES to add your students.

3.suitable for VISUAL learner as they would be more interested when they can imagine their narration.4.CLASS CONTROL.when teacher use this in class students will do their work as this would need lots of concentration and students to focus on their work as it is interesting.5.OWNERSHIP.This gives students sense of ownership where they have their own work that they might want to share with people as you can embed this in you blog or send it to your friends' email.6.AUTONOMY.this encourage autonomy learning as well as students might want to write story using this in their free time as this is more fun hence encourage students to develop their writing skills.7.one of the thing that I really like about this is that students can really put their feelings in writing.Without teacher realize when it comes to narrating students tend write story that are close to them.It is either their own story or people that they know.Teacher should take note of what students' write because they might trying to tell you something from it.
DISADVANTAGES
1.LIMITED SPACE. you won't have much space to write a long description in each pages hence it limits your words.2.FACILITIES.In schools students might have to work in group as there might not be enough computers for them.Students who do not have computers at home also will not be  able to continue this at home.
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