STORYBIRD: DIGITAL BOOK

 

Digital stories allow teachers to genuinely engage students in the story's message. Digital storytelling persuades the brain and the heart. Digital stories can teach students the value of emotional rhetoric, allowing them to explore new ways of acting or thinking differently. One of the apps that provides to create a digital story even book is StoryBird.

Storybird is a unique storytelling platform that aims to help spark creativity in students for original writing and the creation of professionally finished storybooks. It is aimed at children in different age groups: Preschooler 3+, Kid 6+, Tween 9+, Teen 13+, and Young Adults 16+.

This also works well as a reading platform in which publicly shared stories can be read and commented on, by an individual or as a group or class. This pool of material can be helpful for teachers but also for students to spark ideas.

Storybird uses curation to make sure content is appropriate, and if anything unwelcome is spotted, it is removed and the user can be banned.

Lots of curriculum course materials and guides are available to help teachers and guardians get the most out of the service for children. It can be applied to various subjects beyond English, such as history, science, and even math.

Storybird is a unique language art tool. It is a digital platform that allows students to tell stories using words and images. A huge library of imagery means once the words are entered, it's easy to pair up a suitable image to create a visually engaging story, or be inspired by images first.

It has a huge library of these created stories, as it works a bit like a social media platform. As such, children can use this simply to do their reading, on any device, thanks to an easy-to-use Chrome app.

It provides illustrations to inspire students to write stories , and its standards-based writing curriculum engages students with age-appropriate video tutorials, writing challenges, quizzes, and more.

Storybird enables a productive platform for instructors, students, family members, young kids between age 0-8, age 9-12, adolescent learners age 13-18, and adults.

Storybird gives learners a choice of real artwork, characters and scenes, to inspire them to create anything from a picture book with just a few words per page, to a full-length novel with chapters, or even a piece of poetry.

Storybird is a free website where people of all ages can write and publish their own books online.

StoryBird helps students develop critical thinking skills, while working together, and gets them excited to be more creative.

There are 3 steps to follow in the path of creating a book.

1-choose an illustration

2-write your story

3-publish your book

In the writing types there are 5 categories; Picture book, longform story, comics, flash fiction, poetry. Also, all of these is available in the read section.

In the activities section basic writing, creative writing, thematic compositions, children’s songs, leveled reads and how-to guide parts take place.

Storybird best tips and tricks

Collaborate to create
Have a group of students select a story style then work together to create an original narrative that works. You could have one in a pair pick the image then the other add words and swap, taking turns.

Create a science guide
Science students can use the platform to create storybooks that work as revision and learning aids. Have students pick artwork related to plants for example, with leaves, stems, roots and so on – then have them add questions and answers such as "How does a plant get light?" and so on.

Use poetry for bilinguals
Poetry uses word tiles to compile poems, which can help bilinguals or those who are learning in a second language environment. This allows them to get creative while focusing on using words precisely, thereby encouraging learning.