Tech Project #2

Tech Project #2

I used Story Creator with a Kindergarten student who is participating in functional curriculum. He is nonverbal, but still loves to share projects with his peers. The classrooms were working on paper/pencil animal research projects, but we decided that he would not get much out of it if we did it hand over hand using paper/pencil. As a team, we decided to do it digitally which would allow him to make some binary choices (selecting pictures) and it gives him the opportunity to very easily share his finished product with his classmates. Since this particular student is nonverbal, I had another male Kindergarten student record himself reading the book so when he shares it with the class it will be a young voice. This app allows you to incorporate pictures, videos, text and audio. I wanted the project to be meaningful to him so I had him research cats, knowing he had his very own cat named Richard. We were able to incorporate a picture of them into the book and he loved that! I have used other similar apps like Shadow Puppet and Educreations, but I liked this for the younger students. It is as easy and simple as they come.

Check out the story / photo album I created called:

Cats

To view the story just do the following:

1. Download the Story Creator app from the App Store from the link below
http://itunes.apple.com/app/story-creator-pro/

2. Click on the link below to view my story
Cats

Let me know what you think! :-)

PS: If you already have the Story Creator app installed, skip step 1
and just click on the second link to view my story