Digital Storytelling - 7/16/12

REFLECTION:

This activity was a lot of fun.  I choose ZooBurst over Storybird because I was writing a personal narrative using the imperfect.

I liked that I could manipulate color, but that was about all I could do with the font - other than bold.  This time I had wanted to do italics, but it wasn't a deal breaker here.  It was simple, quick and I could use this with students just like I did here.  I also liked that you could upload your own photos and I'll have to teach students about using clip art because my last image has the copyright directly on the image.  I also liked that I could use special characters - again a piece of cake on a Mac.

I could also see myself using Storybird with students if I wanted them to practice creating descriptions of images.  It's much easier to think of what you know how to say in Spanish, then find a picture to match it.  It's somewhat trickier to have an image and then describe it in Spanish when you're at such a novice level of learning the language.  Still, it can be done and is good practice.