Apps+for+storytelling

$5.49 Ages: all || Create stories using photos and text. The app has a ‘getting started’ tutorial plus online support. It is possible to make high quality ebooks with this app (epub) and upload to iBooks. Video and audio can be imported and speech can be recorded within the app to make multimodal stories. See [|www.redjumper.net/bookcreator]. || ||   || $4.49 Ages: all || Create, edit, and publish e-books; the app has the ability to import documents from Google Docs; format of book can be in HTML, havascript, css, jpg., mp4 and m4a. || ||   || $1.99 Ages: All || With My Story, children can create multimodal stories in which they can draw pictures, use photographs or other pictures stored in the iPad's Photos. For each page, they can write text and audio record a narration. One drawback is that there are no options regarding font size and colour, which makes this app less useful for teaching about the role size and colour of text might have in multimodal stories. Text cannot be positioned anywhere but along the bottom of the page. It is not particularly intuitive to use but, once learnt, it is not difficult. Stories can be shared via email or iBooks.
 * ** Name of App **
 * Cost **
 * Age ** || Brief comments || Illustration || curriculum links ==== ==== ||
 * [|Book Creator]
 * [|Creative Book Builder]
 * [|My Story]

|| ||   || Free Ages: all || Create stories with pictures, text; can be used as a digital sticker book without text; picture sets include school, farm animals, Cinderella, ninjas and more. ||  ||   || FREE Age: || Create shows with animation and audio; students are able to pick own actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and record; ability to use own photos for actors and backdrops. || ||   || $2.99 Ages: all || This app is an unlocked verson of [|Puppet Pals] which may make it easier for schools to use in their classrooms. ||  ||   || FREE Age: || This versatile app was recommended by several AISWA teachers. Children can easily make puppet shows and record the audio. The puppets lip-sync to the audio. Students who don't ususally like listening to their own voice will enjoy listening to them once they have been transformed by Sock Puppets. A 'pass' can be purchased to get a wider variety of puppets and backgrounds. || ||   || $6.49 Free (lite) StoryBuddy2 [|See example] || StoryBuddy has a nice look and feel. It's easy to manipulate (move, resize, reposition) images in this app. It is also possible to overlay the images with text.
 * [|Picturebook]
 * [|Picturebook]
 * [|Puppet Pals]
 * [|Puppet Pals Directors Pass]
 * [|Sock Puppet]
 * [|Storybuddy]

StoryBuddy 2 is much better (for an extra dollar). It has audio, saves as you work, a variety of attractive backgrounds and more options for sharing. See [|http://tapfuze.com/apps-for-ipad/storybuddy]/ for information about Storybuddy 2.

The Lite version only allows one story at a time on the bookshelf and has limited functionality. Worth downloading for a preview but it would be frustrating to try and use this in the classroom. No audio in Lite. || ||   || FREE || This is an app for creating digital stories, including audio. It is possible to take your own photos to use in the stories. || ||   || Free Ages: 4-8+ || Children record a story by spinning the wheel to get a picture, and then narrate a portion of the story. When done students can listen to their stories. One of the teachers in our AISWA study used this to stimulate story writing by helping children think of characters, settings, action. || ||   || $3.99 ||   ||  ||   || FREE || With this app it is possible to annotate a range of texts (words, visual, etc) using different modes. Texts are uploaded to VoiceThread and can be annotated by peers and others using multiple modes including – voice, text. See Apps for Improving Comprehension (below) for more details about this app. || ||   || Free Ages: all || Create stories with pictures, text; can be used as a digital sticker book without text; picture sets include school, farm animals, Cinderella, ninjas and more || ||   ||
 * StoryKit
 * [|Story Wheel]
 * [|Papercut]
 * [|Voicethread]
 * [|Picturebook]
 * [|Picturebook]
 * [|Picturebook]
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