Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories, presentations, reports, or tutorials you and your students make to share, read, and print. Storybird is a fun, collaborative website that can be integrated in all content areas. It can be an effective resource for teaching parts of a story, the writing process, promoting creativity, and more. STEM and social studies teachers can use Storybird for engaging alternatives to traditional lessons, reports and presentations. Storybird also seamlessly keeps a portfolio of each student's work. Clif Mims guides workshop participants in setting up accounts and helps you begin using Storybird.com's tools and services. Participants will learn how to use the teacher-specific tools. Session resources available at http://bit.ly/mims185.

1. Storybird: Encourage Creativity, Promote
Writing, and Add Excitement to
Reports, Presentations, and Tutorials
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3. All materials are available online:
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4. Guided Tour

5. Gift of Time

8. Mrs. Patterson
Classroom Examples and Uses

9. Noteworthy
• FREE!
• It requires minimal teacher preparation time.

10. Noteworthy
• Educators should sign up for the Teacher
accounts.Teacher accounts allow you to setup
classes and administer student accounts.
– Alleviates the necessity for student email
accounts.
– Makes it possible for children under 13 to legally
have accounts.

11. Noteworthy
• Educators should sign up for the Teacher
accounts.Teacher accounts allow you to setup
classes and administer student accounts.
– Storybird has safeguards for child online safety built
into it. Teacher accounts also help you with this.
– Student work can be made public or private.
– Teachers can setup assignments with directions and
deadlines that students will see.
– Teachers can specify that students use a particular art
gallery for an assignment.

12. Noteworthy
• The use of the artwork can prompt reluctant
writers and encourage deep reflection and
higher-order thinking.
• Students can benefit from writing for an
audience.

13. A Few Curriculum Connections
• Promote early writing -- even with student
created wordless picture books.
• Sequencing
• Main idea
• Elements of a story
• Propaganda techniques
• Practice with a variety of writing genres
(persuasive writing, mysteries, poetry, etc.)

14. Sharing
• How will you implement this?
• Ideas for letting students use these tools.

15. Teachers Can Use Storybird:
• To introduce themselves or the class rules on the first day of
school and at parent night.
• To create lessons and tutorials about any topic.
• As an easy strategy for keeping a portfolio of student writing.
• To promote the writing process.
• To help students better understand the parts of a story.
• To encourage higher-order thinking skills (HOTS).
• To promote creativity.
• To collaborate with students, colleagues, and other
classrooms.

16. Students Can Use Storybird:
• To write an About Me story the first week of
school.
• As an alternative strategy for submitting
research reports, book reports, and essays.
• For journal reflections.
• To create gifts for loved ones.
• To collaborate with others inside and outside
of the classroom.

18. Presentation materials and
many other teacher resources
available at
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