The Storybird website begins by telling us it is open beta. I do not know what that means. Since it is written large, it means something and If you are reading this and know the answer, man. This is such a nice way for artists to share their work with children and students, families, friends and whoever decided to use this website. (Storybird, 2009)
Story Bird seems to be a really easy way to begin writing a story. The fact that there is art work that can help begin a story is helpful. Also, the fact that it can be written by multiple people is good. In music, we work from class to class when writing down a story the children are creating. Doing it this way, we can begin in one class and continue in another one and even more, if needed.
Story Bird uses wonderful artwork by very talented artists. Using the artwork and the program, students of all ages, all reading levels can use this program to write stories. They can write them alone, but they can also use them with the round robin approach. (Hathaway, 2009). Children can select the art they want to use and begin writing a story. If one writes the story, or part of the story, the others can take over and continue to work until they have written and rewritten until it is the way they want it to be. (O’Dell, 2009)
We can email it to another music classroom in another school and partner up that way. It wouldn’t be difficult to write a passage, then email it to another class who will then write their part and send it back for editing. After the first group edits, the second group will finish their editing and it can finally be published.
One more thing that I see as being a really great idea for my music classes is that we can write our poems, which will be come the song as soon as they set it to music they compose. We can do like other books which are songs and keep it as a book and put the song, written with staff and notes, in the back of the book.
References
Retrieved Dec. 6, 2009. From Hathaway, J. (2009, September 7). http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/07/storybird-cute-web-based-storybook-publishing/
Retrieved Dec. 6, 2009; From O’Dell, J., (2009, September 7). http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/09/storybird-family-friendly-storyt.php
Retrieved December 6, 2009; from http://storybird.com
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