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Creating your own book with Storybird

July 13

Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

I came across this tool on Hall, Nathan Webtools

https://nathanghall.wordpress.com/webtools-no-registration-needed-for-students/ 

This online resource was included in Week 6's Reading and Assignment. It may be meant to help us with the website Resources assignment, which requires a wide range of webtools. Nathan Hall's page is a toolkit or a collection of webtools that anyone can use to explore their creativity or work on a project. The tool must meet four criteria.

  1. It's free.
  2. Teachers may have to register, but there is no need for students to sign in with an email or a social media account.
  3. The student can interact and be creative with the tool.
  4. There is no need to install something.
I looked at some of my fellow students' website assignment. Someone's work created in the form of a storybook caught my eyes. The book opens up and after you have read it, it turns to the next page. The graphics/illustrations on the pages are beautiful, and the way the page turns is realistic and creative. So when I found out about this tool in Nathan Hall's page, I wanted to explore it, even though I didn't need it for the website assignment.

This tool lets you create a book in these steps:
  1. Choose illustrations. There are 11,167 images that you can select. They are animated pictures that can fit easily with a variety of themes and plots.
  2. Write your story. You can write a picture book, longform story which is a long story with many parts like a chapter book, comics, flash fiction which is story that you can read in one sitting with approximately 500 words, and poetry. 
  3. Publish your book.
This site includes activities that help to sharpen your writing skills. There is something for every grader from K-12. These activities include lesson, videos and quizzes. There are also activities with advices from best-selling authors and industry pros to bring out your creative side.

Another wonderful feature about this site is the sheer volume of Storybird-authored stories that you can read. Currently there are 364,363 picture books, 87,108 longform stories, 19,836 comics, 28,422 flash fiction stories, and 577,200 poems on Storybird, and you can read all of them.

I have yet to try to make a book/story using this tool. The number of stories that have been created by Storybird authors tells me this is a popular tool for the aspiring writers.

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