Little+Bird+Tales

Little Bird Tales has quickly become my new favorite web 2.0 tool, mostly because it’s incredibly easy to create a high-quality digital story. The site allows users to create narrated slideshows, using their own photos or illustrations and their own voices.
 * Little Bird Tales **

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- Encourages creativity and self expression - Helps reinforce reading and writing skills - A GREEN alternative to books - NO ads, NO merchandising, NO external links - Made with kids in mind! - It's Fun and it's FREE for everyone! - Students can create art work using online drawing tools or upload their drawings, writings, and photographs - Students can write text and record audio of them reading their stories - Doesn’t support Internet Explorer 6 - Requires a microphone to record audio. - Does not allow comments
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***Opportunities** - Students and teachers can share their digital stories with others.

*** Threats** - If unsupervised material could be inappropriate for some children.

- Create a digital story with the class - Allow students to create a digital story about their favorite vacation
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