App of the Day: Story Creator

Story Creator is a great app to use for digital storytelling. With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments.


Application for Education:
"Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. Digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes." (University of Houston)


Benefits of using Story Creator:
☆ 100% FREE
☆ Add as many stories as you like
☆ Sharing stories with friends and family is as easy as email
☆ Backup stories online so kids can't accidentally delete your hard work
☆ Download stories on multiple devices - create once, experience anywhere
☆ Can add photos, videos, audio, and text
☆ Can add photos from device, Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook
☆ Supports drawing tool to make stories truly your own
☆ Create a personal book cover for every story
☆ Add your own voice - bring stories to live by adding your own narrative
☆ Add audio highlights - highlights makes it really easy for kids to learn how to read
☆ Leave comments on stories shared by friends

App of the Day: Snapguide

What is Snapguide?
Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, fashion tips, entertaining and more. Snapguide is free on the iPhone and iPad.

Applications for Education:
The purpose of expository writing is to inform, describe, explain, or define the author's subject to the reader.  Snapguide would serve as a creative way to introduce expository writing at the elementary level, especially to describe or explain a subject. Teachers can embed student snapguides on their webpage to showcase student work. 

Benefits of Using Snapguide:
☆ Snapguide if FREE!
☆ Your content is owned by YOU!
☆ In the Snapguide community one can search for other "how-to guides".
☆ Snapguides can be embedded on webpages (not blog sites).