Creative writing #6: Have you explored using Little Bird Tales for writing?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLHtKyDSgPVseQzK9sLbjEgEiNDgc9tOIsp9FfQWos5YemF8nCT95jxtc5u8YLztfWcA29_6QD5VKI28PDdEinW7Ts-cD1QuDKsJn7DO9HUOsU4V_55Fi8S1c87TCDDIyBElhs1mdKCk/s1600/Little+bird+tales.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLHtKyDSgPVseQzK9sLbjEgEiNDgc9tOIsp9FfQWos5YemF8nCT95jxtc5u8YLztfWcA29_6QD5VKI28PDdEinW7Ts-cD1QuDKsJn7DO9HUOsU4V_55Fi8S1c87TCDDIyBElhs1mdKCk/s1600/Little+bird+tales.JPG" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.3pt;">Little Bird Tales (</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://littlebirdtales.com/">http://littlebirdtales.com</a>)</span> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">has quickly become a favourite web 2.0 tool of mine for writing in the primary school, mostly because it’s so easy to create a high-quality product and you can draw your own pictures online plus add narration. The web site allows users to create podcasts with images — basically, narrated slideshows — in just three steps:</span><br /><ol style="line-height: 17.3pt;"><li><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Users can upload photos to their Bird Tale or they can use an embedded drawing tool to draw images. Older students can add text to their images.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Users then record narration to go with each image if they wish.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, users share their Bird Tales, by sending a URL via e-mail.</span></span></li></ol><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23.0625px;">The name has a babyish sound but I have fund that this does not deter primary school age children. This video shows how </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">Little Bird got his name: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnNCe5OD8k&feature=player_embedded" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnNCe5OD8k&feature=player_embedded</a></div><div><br /></div><b style="color: #333333; font-size: x-large; line-height: 23.05555534362793px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch this demo from Little bird tales</span></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">Here is a demo from YouTube showing how easy it is to us.</span><br /><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P3CcWUtOiBk" width="420"></iframe> </div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.05555534362793px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.0625px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P3CcWUtOiBk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P3CcWUtOiBk</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>An instruction video from Little Bird Tales</b></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uEnhabCzrvo" width="420"></iframe><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><i style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.0625px;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEnhabCzrvo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEnhabCzrvo</a></span></span></i><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23.05555534362793px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Example of how a teacher created a story using Little Bird Tales</span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This comes from Juanit Oosthuizen from Elkanah House Cape Tiwn's lovely Foundation Phase blog  </span></span><a href="http://technoboffins.wordpress.com/">http://technoboffins.wordpress.com</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fcea63; border-color: #F26122; border-style: solid; border-width: 4px; display: inline-block; font-family: \'lucida grande\',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; margin: 1px; padding: 2px;"><a href="http://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/21440/"><img alt="littlebirdtales.com cover image" height="280" src="http://www.littlebirdtales.com/images/embed/stories/c/e/3/e/21440/image.jpg" title="Ben die Boer" width="400" /></a><br /><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5010076453548563484" http:="" story_id="" tales="" view="" www.littlebirdtales.com="">Click to view my tale.</a></li><li style="display: inline; float: right;"><img alt="littlebirdtales.com logo" src="http://www.littlebirdtales.com/images/embed/logo/lbt_logo.png" /></li></ul></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 17.3pt; margin-bottom: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/21440/">http://www.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/21440/</a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Example of a story made with Little Bird Tales</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">This comes from the blog </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 23.0625px;"><a href="http://berryart.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/a-little-bird-told-me/">http://berryart.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/a-little-bird-told-me/</a></span></i><br /><br /><div style="background-color: #fcea63; border-color: #F26122; border-style: solid; border-width: 4px; display: inline-block; font-family: \'lucida grande\',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; margin: 1px; padding: 2px;"><a href="http://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/17927/"><img alt="littlebirdtales.com cover image" height="280" src="http://littlebirdtales.com/images/embed/stories/1/7/0/2/17927/image.jpg" title="Color Dance" width="400" /></a><br /><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://littlebirdtales.com/images/embed/logo/lbt_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="littlebirdtales.com logo" border="0" src="http://littlebirdtales.com/images/embed/logo/lbt_logo.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a><li style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5010076453548563484" http:="" littlebirdtales.com="" story_id="" tales="" view="">Click to view my tale.</a></li><li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5010076453548563484" http:="" littlebirdtales.com="" story_id="" tales="" view=""></a><a href="http://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/17927/">http://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/17927/</a> </li><li style="display: inline; float: right;"></li></ul></div><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><div style="line-height: 17.3pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.3pt;">How Little Bird Tales is accessed</span></b></span></div><ol style="line-height: 17.3pt; text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">Teachers can easily create a FREE account and begin creating tales. They can have all their students create tales under a single account, but the site also allows teachers to create separate FREE accounts for each student. These accounts are always connected to the teachers’ account, and the website is built to ensure student privacy since so many younger kids use it.</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">The website asks users to create and use a “school code” so teachers and students from the same school can be grouped together. Teachers can’t access Bird Tales from another class unless it’s been shared with them, but it allows teachers to see who else in their school is using the tool and how often. This is helpful in terms of finding on-site teachers who can offer support.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">License</span></li></ol><div style="line-height: 17.3pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt;">Try Little Bird Tales today and see what you think. </span></div></div></div></div>

30 Days of Writing Creative writing #6: Have you explored using Little Bird Tales for writing?

Little Bird Tales ( http://littlebirdtales.com )   has quickly become a favourite web 2.0 tool of mine for writing in the primary school, mo...

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