{"id":3691,"date":"2011-02-25T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:23:07","slug":"little-bird-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Little Bird Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What it is: <\/strong>I am late on this post, but it is too good to skip a mention!\u00a0 Little Bird Tales<\/a> is a new way to digital story tell with primary students.\u00a0 With Little Bird Tales<\/a>, students can upload their own artwork, record their voice, add text and email their finished creations to family and friends. Sign up on Little Bird Tales<\/a> requires an email address for verification purposes.\u00a0 This can be a parent or teacher email address (the site is geared for 3 to 14-year-old children so a student address is not necessary).\u00a0 Little Bird Tales<\/a> includes a built-in art pad where students can create pictures online.\u00a0 They also have the option to upload photographs and images they have created offline.\u00a0 Each page give students a place to add a picture, text and voice recording.\u00a0 Finished books can be saved and accessed online or sent via email.<\/p>\n

How to integrate Little Bird Tales<\/a> into the classroom:<\/strong> Little Bird Tales<\/a> is a brilliant option for digital storytelling in the primary classroom.\u00a0 I love that it includes both online and offline student creations, as well as student voice recordings.\u00a0 Students can use Little Bird Tales<\/a> for creative writing and imaginative stories, as a way to reflect on learning, or as a keepsake for parents.\u00a0 Students can take pictures of science experiments and create a digital science journal detailing the experiment with text and student voice reflections included.<\/p>\n

Use Little Bird Tales<\/a> to create whole class stories where each student contributes a page.\u00a0 This type of book can be made over a few weeks using classroom computers as a writing center.\u00a0 This would be a fun way to create an A to Z type book of learning, reflections by students after a unit, a 100 day book, fact vs. opinion book, an interactive glossary, a class book of poems, a phonics book, or a class book about a field trip that students took.\u00a0 The finished product can be shared with parents and families easily through an email. For a back to school night activity, take a picture of each student to add to a class book and record students sharing what their favorite part of the school day is.\u00a0 This same idea could be used in preparation for parent-teacher conferences. Students can upload pictures of their best school work, record thoughts about why they are proud of the work they did, and add reflections in the text field.\u00a0 These can be shared as a starting point for conferences, at the end of the conference, parents have a keepsake.<\/p>\n

Because of the voice recording capabilities, Little Bird Tales, would be a great way for students to practice a foreign language.\u00a0 They can illustrate a word or phrase accompanied by the audio.\u00a0 Classes could work together to create a “living” digital glossary.<\/p>\n

Do you have a planned absence coming?\u00a0 Why not create a digital story that your substitute can share with students?\u00a0 Upload pictures that support learning, text, and your voice.<\/p>\n

Tips:<\/strong> If you have parent email addresses in Google, Yahoo, or Outlook, they can be directly imported into Little Bird Tales as contacts.<\/p>\n

Please leave a comment and share how you are using Little Bird Tales in your classroom!<\/strong>
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What it is: I am late on this post, but it is too good to skip a mention!\u00a0 Little Bird Tales is a new way to digital story tell with primary students.\u00a0 With Little Bird Tales, students can upload their own artwork, record their voice, add text and email their finished creations to family and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,209,220,2484,352,36,4,31,10,7,12,8,67,2488,590,11],"tags":[3220,3222,3219,3050,320,383,577,501,3221,53,1164,4697,3217,3216,4702,1279,118,105,3218],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-character-education","category-collaboration","category-create-blooms","category-foreign-language","category-interactive-book","category-language-arts","category-math","category-phonics","category-primary-elementary","category-science","category-secondary-elementary","category-teacher-resources","category-understand-describe-explain","category-web-tools","category-web20","tag-100-day","tag-back-to-school-night","tag-class-books","tag-conferences","tag-create","tag-creative-writing","tag-digital-story","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-factopinion","tag-field-trip","tag-glossary","tag-language-arts","tag-little-bird-tales","tag-parent-teacher-conferences","tag-phonics","tag-poem","tag-story","tag-vocabulary","tag-voice-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}