Yesterday I had fun creating a story with the
Little Story Maker app. Young writers can make books several pages long with an image and sentence on each page. An audio recording can also be added to each page so as the text is read it is highlighted. I can't wait to try this with kindergarteners and first graders. My guess is they would absolutely love the audio feature and would find it very motivating. Students could make books of sight words, how-to books, or books about themselves. They could draw their own illustrations then take a picture of their work and upload the image into their story. I feel this app has so much potential. Silvia Tolisano wrote a very informative
post on her blog about the specific features of Little Story Maker as well as some of the drawbacks such as not being able to upload the finished book as an epub file.
Update:
When I returned to the app today to review my book, all the audio recordings were erased with the exception of the last page. After reading the reviews on the iTunes page, it appears that this is a common problem along with other bugs. This makes me very sad. This app has so much potential. I hope the developers fix it.
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| This is a screenshot of the book I made. |
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Dear Diana,
ReplyDeleteIt's been a while when I visited. First I would like to wish good healing for your son. Second I wish you were closer to show and teach all the different tools and apps you have learned to use lately. I am not a very good experimenter. I hope that this year I will try at least few of them.
Terje