Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 86
StoryboardThat (www.storyboardthat.com) is a tool very much enjoyed especially
by younger students who can create their stories with a lot of scenes and characters to
choose from. They can create 2 storyboards per week for free, they can continue editing
their story whenever they want to, change the colours of the backgrounds or the
characters’ clothes/hair/eyes, upload their own images if they want to and when they have
finished they can download, share or even print it (as a folding card, for example).
Storybird (www.storybird.com) is another platform that can spark students’
imagination in writing poems, multi-page picture books or multi-page longform books, all
having interesting pictures as stimulus. The platform gives teachers the opportunity to
create class accounts and also has an educator blog containing useful resources, tips and
lesson plans.
Other websites and platforms that teachers can choose from for developing their
students’ creative writing skills are: www.fodey.com (very useful for generating newspaper
clippings), http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters (where students spin a wheel
in order to receive writing prompts for adventure, fantasy, sci-fi stories or choose
‘scrambler’ for a variety of texts: commercials, biographies, letters or postcards) or
https://bookcreator.com/ (for creating books on the PC, tablet or laptop).
Games can be turned into a stimulus for producing the students’ own content either
written or spoken. An interactive pronunciation game which I found on the BBC website
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/postcard/index.shtml)
gives
86