Creative Writing #8: Try using Storybird with its beautiful art for inspired writing sessions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Storybird can be accessed at <a href="http://storybird.com/">http://storybird.com/</a>. This is a wonderful free creative writing site where you can create your own stories using interesting and beautiful images provided by a variety of illustrators. These can be summarised as 'short, art-inspired stories' and they are g<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: en-za;">reat for writing collaboratively or for individual writing. </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Teachers can get a free account for each class with easy access which is a great timesaver. U</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">sers can share their stories by sending a URL via e-mail, or they can purchase them.</span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">How to use in the classroom</b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">*Excite the students about becoming a published author<br /><span style="line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">*Explain that their work will be read by people all over the world</span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.3pt; text-indent: -18pt;">*Have the writings be completed before they publish to the web... if they already have a draft of a story. It becomes easier to chunk their sentences to import into different pages to represent the given art work.</span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><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; line-height: 17.3pt; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.75pt;"><br />Tutorials</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Storybird demo.movie</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LWrslLyuXk8" width="420"></iframe></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWrslLyuXk8" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWrslLyuXk8</a><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;"> </b></div><h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Super Storytelling with StoryBird</span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T00YjRBIcIw" width="420"></iframe></h3></div></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00YjRBIcIw"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00YjRBIcIw</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>An example of  a story</b></span><br /><a href="http://storybird.com/books/examples-of-friendship-love-and-family-in-nature/">Examples of friendship, love and family in nature</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxgI-i95lh_RQSBlImGNIwKOyzULmeTTPRAu3KU1PAqWXY4HIAKMTqaqb3_1uFig5Yr6Vl-jbwVbYnKAxt8x-1QXGcuEN0O9eV9QR7vfWr99q_yepT_92jRl4MkxYUfrqjRI3oltd3UdH/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOYb9U000MF4alS0UTOLhBZdoLQ42Tc6rJrLy1IOD0SqRHxXAxbLP7I6R1kVaGDoH7UEtJTpOBCIYudCLO8Zpy5a-OrIJoWTf9R5kkCv4wfGBM5GYSv8JXpXd1vFiukk131bu-6M3gIKLN/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="372" /></a> <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;">Further Reading</span></b><br /><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/storybird-new-teacher-boot-camp-lisa-dabbs">http://www.edutopia.org/blog/storybird-new-teacher-boot-camp-lisa-dabbs</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do try Storybird with your class. It is a great way of encouraging reluctant writer to write and feel very proud of their achievements. </span></div></div>

30 Days of Writing Creative Writing #8: Try using Storybird with its beautiful art for inspired writing sessions

Storybird can be accessed at  http://storybird.com/ . This is a wonderful free creative writing site where you can create your own stories u...

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