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=Web 2.0 Tool: Story Bird is a fun web 2.0 tool that helps teach in the classroom.=

Story Bird is a Web 2.0 tool that allows for students to create their own stories on a web page through the use of pictures and texts. This is particularly useful because it allows for students to create their own story while using pictures and text to what is happening. Students can upload pictures to tell the story of a historical figure as well as describe how it is to be a regular citizen going through the event in history. Through the use of technology students can create a visual story of the historical event that they are studying that will inform the viewer of what is going on and entertain them. The Story Bird technique would be great for a class teaching Ancient Rome because students would create a story based the people, places, and events that they learned.

Students will log onto the website and create and account under the student/teacher. Students will them pick a topic in Ancient Rome and find picture on the website that will fit with the story they are creating about Rome. To create your page students will click create and choose picture that fits the story that they wish to tell. After students pick their pictures they fill in information on the page about their topic and begin to write their story. Students can create their page with colors and font that they choose.

I created my own page on Ancient Rome depicting a story about gladiators. The pictures I used were colorful and animated so that they were fun and easy to look at. I wrote a story next to the pictures describing life as a gladiator. This could be used as a class assignment where each student makes a page of the book or as an individual assignment having each student make a story. The pictures were easy to add and thetext boxes make it easy to write. The story was a fun project that allows for students to show their creative side while describing what they learn in history.



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