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to use books
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December 10, 2024
A Creative and Collaborative Tool for Student Storytelling
StoryJumper is aa fantastic tool for frosting creativity and developing writing skills in students of all ages. It allows students to create and publish their own books using simple drag and drop interface. The wide range of customization options make it engaging and versatile platform for storytelling. One thing that stood out was that teachers can use the built -in lessons plans, collaborative features, and integration with google classroom. It also has the ability to create group project, which integrates team work in the class.
However, the interface does feel dated, this could be changed into something modern and few student might even need extra help to navigate some tools. More templates could help beginners get started more easily, with AI upcoming, one could add an AI feature which could create anything that the student things about.
Despite these minor drawbacks, it is a reliable and inspiring resource for educators to incorporate creaetivity in the classroom and also teamwork
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May 12, 2023
Teachers are loving it!
Storyjumper is incredibly easy for teachers to implement, especially since it syncs with Google Classroom, which we are already using in our district. The students can easily navigate with the tools, and teachers like being able to see students working in real time. It has been a hit with the teachers on my campus from Kindergarten all the way to 5th grade.
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April 30, 2022
A great way for young creative minds to bring their ideas to life!
Overall, I think that this is a really great source of student creativity. While the pricing could be problematic (as it costs approximately 8 dollars just to download your creation) and further disparities in education, I believe that just sharing the link to student stories would be sufficient for self expression. Not only can students choose from auto-generated characters and scenes, but they can mix and match different features and looks to create the object of their imagination. I do think that there could be a few more options for hair and other features to be more inclusive—all students deserve to be represented in literature, including the stories that they create themselves. The collaboration feature is really helpful, as it promotes students' to work together on a single concept. This encourages avid discussion and enriches learning.
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