Great app for creating animated stories
Submitted 7 years ago
Community Review for Puppet Pals HD
Blessina C.
Technology Integration Specialist
My Take
If this tool is used in the kindergarten then their needs to be some preparation from the teacher side. The characters have to be manually cut out (the background) by the teacher for students. In grades 1 and 2 the students can do by themselves. It is a great tool for the students to show off their creativity and a great tool for the teacher to assess students understanding.
How I Use It
We used it to create a animated fairy tale. Once the students wrote their own fairy tale and designed their characters, they used this app to animate their fairy tale. Students enjoyed working on this app. It is good tool to assess the ELL students, to check how well they express themselves.
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Melissa Z.
Northampton, MA
September 12, 2016
Digital Storytelling Coming Alive
I think Puppet Pals is a great teaching tool!!! It is easy to use for all children. I love how they have already characters and how you can add your own pictures for a more personalize story. Students want to go on it because they think it is fun and don't realize how much learning they are getting from being on it. If I could use this app more often I would! The movies the students made were so much fun to watch and share with their parents.
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Karen O.
Teacher
Green Acres School
Rockville, MD
January 28, 2016
Personalized Digital Storytelling!
This open-ended app gives just the right amount of support and enough flexibility to really make it your own.
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Cresta K.
Allegany County Public Schools
Cumberland, MD
July 22, 2015
Kids create their own puppet shows narrated with their own voice
As a teaching tool, this skill allowed students to practice their speaking and communication skills while engaging higher level thinking skills of problem solving (as their stories evolved) and creative thinking. I appreciated the way students owned their own stories and were so proud of their finished products. I do think that they could increase the educational factor of the app by providing students a chance to brainstorm their ideas first instead of jumping right into the creation of the puppet show. In addition I think there should be more instruction that is available for the adults helping the students (i.e. more in-depth how to section) for skills required in the app like getting images, cropping images, etc.
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