Storybird: Creativity and Fun

Storybird: Creativity and Fun

101 Days of Free Tech for Teachers, Day 20
Spark your students' imagination and creativity with Storybird. This site collects unique and beautiful artwork from around the world to illustrate stories and inspire students to create and share their work. Students can browse the artwork, choose their story format, drag and drop, and then publish. Teachers can use this platform for digital storytelling lessons and to encourage reading and writing. Storybird even aligns with the Common Core curriculum and works with any device, so it can be easily implemented into any classroom.

How We Decide Which Free Tech Tools to Feature
Yup, there are thousands of apps, tools, services, websites, and other offerings — many free — designed for teachers and students.  So, how do we sort through all of those to feature the ones which are most useful and interesting?  Well… we start by sorting through thousands of these things… then we talk to the presenters in the SimpleK12 Teacher Learning Community and watch their videos closely… then we talk to many of the members in the Teacher Learning Community, teachers just like you who are using these apps and tools day in and day out.  We've been doing this for over 30 years and have, in that time, developed a sense for what's good and bad.  Have we missed something that we should feature here?  Most certainly.  So, let us know in the Comments section what we should take a look at and we'll throw 'em into the hopper.

Carolina Fransen is the EdTech Apps and Tools Editor at SimpleK12.com.  She writes regularly about the use of educational technology in K-12 classrooms.  If you have an app, tool, website, or service that you think we should know about, please send your information or tip to editor@simplek12.com.