Web 2.0 tool for Education

Web 2.0 Tool for Education

This web2.0 tool is used around the world in different classrooms. Many children are being creative creating books and using their own imagination and creativity. This innovative tool makes their story more vivid and easy to share with others. Many times is difficult for children to write stories in paper and draw pictures. Some of them complain that their pictures are not the best and they stop writing altogether. However, now, they can be exposed to do the typing and select the pictures that they like for their story and share it with their teacher. According to their website Storybird, it has six different things why children will really love to use this website. First, there is a great art that they could choose for their stories. In addition, the children can unlock stories by solving puzzles. There is also the social reinforcement by hearing feedback about their work. On the other hand, it is free, safe and it can help students to get better grades.

For teachers, there are a lot of affordances by using storybird in their classroom. Children can use their imagination and their creativity. They can demonstrate their understanding about the process of how a story is being developed. They also can enhance and reinforce their literacy skills. As   Tech Tutorials names it as a “Collaborative Storytelling Tool”. Also Lisa Dabbs an Ed consultant shared some of the successes of using storybird in the classrooms.

   

On the other hand, as we know already the benefits of using this innovative tool in the classroom, there are also some constraints about the use of this tool. If teachers, don’t have the proficiency to use this website or have an idea how this tool can enhance their teaching, this will not benefit the students. In the following tutorial by sliceshare , it shares some of the requirements that students and teachers need to have in order to be beneficial for the student’s learning skills. Having internet is one of the requirement and some of the students still do not have access to internet at home.