Community Review of Puppet Pals HD | Common Sense Education

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My Take

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.

How I Use It

I used this app in a Special Education setting. This app helped my students to become storytellers. They learned to summarize a story by recreating it on the app. During writing class they were able to write a piece and than perform it on the app. This app was great motivation for the students. They would use it on their free time to create their own stories. I used it for fluency, retelling the main idea, different social studies topics, and math lessons. I really used it across the curriculum as a way for students to express their thoughts.

More community reviews for Puppet Pals HD

Blessina C. Technology Integration Specialist Bangalore, KA

May 30, 2016

Great app for creating animated stories

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.

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.

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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