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Review by Mieke VanderBorght, Common Sense Education | Updated October 2018

Storybird
Social storytelling site helps kids create, publish storybooks
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Subjects & Skills
Character & SEL, Communication & Collaboration, Creativity, English Language Arts
Great for
Creating Media, Digital Citizenship, Media Literacy
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Storybird
Community Rating
Gets students excited to create a story!
In the SAMR model, I'd put this website on the redefinition stage. Students are able to design their own story independently, or with a small group, which allows for collaboration. Additionally, students can share their stories with people from all over the world in the community section. This section also allows students to read stories written by others students their own age, which can at times be difficult to find. In the TPACK model, StoryBird helps teachers reach the TCK section. Creating a story isn't new in language arts classes, but this tool enhances the content and allows students to interact and analyze original stories from all over the world. Overall, I found that StoryBird helps students develop critical thinking skills, while working together, and gets them excited to be more creative.
The only downside that I found was that students cannot add their own photos to StoryBird. Because they have to pick something on the website, they can get a little frustrated; however, the images are nice and there are a wide array of options.
Privacy Rating
Data Safety How safe is this product?
- Users can interact with trusted users.
- Unclear whether personal information can be displayed publicly.
- User-created content is filtered for personal information before being made publicly visible.
Data Rights What rights do I have to the data?
- Users can create or upload content.
- Processes to access or review user data are available.
- Unclear whether this product provides processes to modify data for authorized users.
Ads & Tracking Are there advertisements or tracking?
- Personal information is not shared for third-party marketing.
- Unclear whether this product displays traditional or contextual advertisements.
- Personalised advertising is not displayed.
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