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Dear teachers, librarians, assistants, mentors and local adults,
Let us help you to encourage your students to love writing and reading! WikiScribi has two objectives - to provide student writing so that students can read book by their peers, geographically near or far, and making this content readily available on cell phones, because we know that many students use.
You can easily help us build our library story so that students can start reading each other's work.
With your children or teenagers, do the following:
- Encourage them to write stories, poems, written information about their culture, home, cities, animals and their adventures they would like to share.
- They can write their stories on paper or computer or whatever they have.
- Help them correct their grammar, spelling, and make the piece as good as possible.
- Ask them to share their work with others in the community. Their writing interesting to other children or teenagers? Perhaps their friends or other people can make suggestions.
- Quality standards for WikiScribi include fully-formatted, grammatically correct writing of students is appropriate for and attractive to other children and adolescents. If student work meets these criteria, it is ready to submit!
Offline, help students enter their work on a computer. They can use almost any word processor, or they can use a Google Doc offline. Maybe a volunteer can help with this conversion.
- When the item is ready to submit, and you have access to the Internet, find the following form to Google: http://tinyurl.com/oxkcnf3
- Complete the form and submit it online.
- You will receive a return message indicating whether the part meets the quality standard for Wikiscribi.
- If the part does not meet the quality standard, encourage writers to try again and again by learning to write better and better so that other young people will enjoy their work.
- If it is downloaded to Wikiscribi, you and your students can start reading their work on their own cell phones! Congratulations!
Students can find their work, or read the work of others here
Please encourage everyone to both read and write more for Wikiscribi.
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact the organization in your country that sponsors this initiative or write: reader.david@gmail.com (English only). Suggestions in Spanish: christensenpm@gmail.com
Using Google Documents Offline:
- Download Google Chrome and Google Drive (tools.google.com/dipage/drive) to your desktop or laptop.
- Open the Chrome browser, and type drive.google.com/#offline
- Edit documents. Changes will be saved automatically, even if you are not connected to the Internet.
- When Internet access is available, log wikiscribistories, navigate to the drive folder you created. Google documents you created offline will load online.
Would you like to volunteer to become a super mentor who approves what is submitted so that it can be read by everyone?Apply at: https://sites.google.com/site/wikiscribitsupermentor/
Other Tools and resources children and teens can use to compose their own stories:
5 Online Tools for Creating Picture Books
5 Online Tools for Creating Picture Books
My recent about Jellybean Writer, an online picture book maker, was one last week's most popular posts. If you missed it, I have a description of it below along with four other good tools for creating picture books.Using pictures as the basis for a story can be a good way to get students to write a story. The pictures can serve as prompts for writing the story. All five of the tools listed below have that capability.Picture Book Maker allows students to create six page stories by dragging background scenes into a page, dragging in animals and props, and typing text. All of the elements can be sized an positioned to fit the pages. Text is limited to roughly two lines per page. Completed stories are displayed with simple page turning effects. Stories created on Picture Book Maker can be printed and or saved as PDFs. MyStorybook is a nice online tool for creating short storybooks. MyStorybook provides blank pages on which you can type, draw, and place clipart. Your storybook pages can also include pictures that you upload. After signing into your MyStorybook account you can start creating your first book. Click on the text fields to edit any existing text in the title and author fields. You can add more text by clicking "text" in the editing menu. To add a picture of your own select "items" in the editing menu. At the bottom of the "items" menu you will find an option to upload your own images. MyStorybook provides lots of stock imagery that you can place on a page or use as the background to a page. If you want to branch-out beyond text and images, use the drawing tools on your pages.
Storybird provides templates and artwork for creating digital stories. To use Storybird you simply select a theme (layout) then drag and drop the drawings you like into your story. Once you've selected drawings for your story, you then write in the text of your story. Using Storybird, anyone can create great-looking digital picture book stories regardless of your drawing skills or lack of drawing skills. Storybird can be used on your iPad. The video embedded below demonstrates how.
Storybird Editor from Storybird on Vimeo.
Alphabet Organizer is a great little tool from Read Write Think that students can use to create alphabet charts and books. The idea behind Alphabet Organizer is to help students make visual connections between letters of the alphabet and the first letter of common words. In the video below I demonstrate how to use this tool.
Jellybean Writer is a free tool for creating picture books. Students can import pictures from their computers then write captions for each image. A variety of layout templates, background colors, and fonts are available to Jellybean
Writer users. All stories can be saved online or downloaded and printed. If picture books are too simple for your students, they can skip using pictures and select one of the text only templates for the pages in their books.
Book Creator for Windows - Create Multimedia eBooks
Book Creator for Windows - Create Multimedia eBooks
Book Creator has long been a popular iPad and Android app for creating multimedia ebooks. Today, the developers of Book Creator released a Windows version of the app.Book Creator for Windows (Windows 8.1 or higher required) allows anyone to create his or her own ebooks using images, text, videos, and audio recordings. You can arrange your book in three different formats; portrait, square, or landscape. Each page in your book can include pictures and videos. In addition to the pictures and videos you can include as much as text as you can fit on each page. In fact, if you just want to have text on a page you can do that. If you would like to narrate your book you can tap the record button to add your voice to each page of your book. Every page in your book can have a custom color scheme. Book Creator for Windows from Book Creator on Vimeo.Applications for Education
Book Creator can be a fantastic tool for students to use to create short stories or to create longer research papers that include multimedia elements.
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