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Teaching With Storyjumper
What is Storyjumper?
Storyjumper is a website made for kids to be directed by an adult to help publish a book. It can be used for children and adults of all ages from 5 to 95. It is an easy product to use, that also has videos on their website demonstrating how to use it. It is free access for anyone who wants to use it, you only pay when you publish your books. You have artwork given to you to use throughout your personalized story, or you can use your own photos in your story! Whether that be hand drawn or
How can I use this in my classroom?
This technology is an excellent thing to be using in the classroom. Having kids make their own book not only supports artistic skills and thinking but it promotes their literacy and writing skills. The website is full of images and colors which allows kids to out their creative skills to the test and make something unique and special to them. As a teacher this website would allow them to help the kids to make their own pictures and then upload them into their book if they wanted. The kids are free to make the book anything they like, and the teacher can easily help walk them through the process on the website of how to do just that.
Challenges?
While it is not expensive to publish books, it does cost money. One way to easily pay is to fund raise using Storyjumper. Using Storyjumper to run a write-a-thon is a quick simple way to raise money for the school or toward the website.
How do I get to the website?
Storyjumper will take you directly to their site!
My daughter created one of these books with her classmates when she was a first grader. The books are beautiful and the kids had such a fun time creating it. Its a great way to encourage writing and art (illustrations).
ReplyDeleteThis was an incredible find, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I think that anything that can get anyone (maybe at any age) to read and write is a valuable tool. This combines so many powerful regions of the brain and creates an actual, physical product. There are the analytical skills to create and write the story, the creative skills to generate the plot and art, and the entrepreneurial skills to publish the actual book. On top of all that, it makes for a great piece of memory that can be kept by parents. I am not sure this works in to my field of teaching but I can see it being very beneficial at so many levels in the K-12 system.
ReplyDeleteOn a personal note, I have always wanted to write a book about a detective torpedo sandwich, I call Detective Handwhich. I’m going to have to check out this site and make it happen. Thank you for sharing finding this and sharing it with the class. I also love the layout of your blog. Inspiring.
I have never heard about StoryJumper before. It sounds, like you said, a great way to support "artistic skills and thinking." That is a big part of the writing process. I have not checked it out yet but I will have to. Do you know if the program also supports authoring graphic novels? That would be really neat to see kids sort of illustrate certain events in history through a graphic novel.
ReplyDeleteI really like anything that allows the student to sort of do their own thing. I think students learn so much more when they are actively involved and creating new content. I think it also is a source of pride in achievement as well. Thanks for the review, I'm gonna play around with it this weekend and see if I find any use in it.
This is a compelling software! I love the idea of giving students of younger ages an avenue to explore their creativity. It seems relatively user friendly for students' access. As an educator I would definitely like to use this in my classroom, seems like a-lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard about story jumper before. I love how it can be used for students of a wide variety of ages, super cool. I love how it is free, but it does cost money to publish the books which may be an issue for some students.
ReplyDeleteI think this application could be especially useful for younger students who are exploring writing and creating. Thank you for sharing!