How to create stories online?

In the next two post I’ll present two incredible apps that will definitely engage all of your students from 5 to 99. With these graphic organisers sts can develop their visual literacy and presentation skills, as well. Learner who are visual will love to use them; the act of making and watching the end products will increase their engagement and deepen the newly acquired piece of language. A big advantage of both apps that those who cannot draw can also create creative, enjoyable stories in literally minutes.

StoryboardThat

There are different scenes categories to choose from, from town, through school and work, to historical and futuristic. You can choose characters from basic, cultural, historical (1600-1950) to monsters, myths and animals. You can also add different accessories to your characters and can colour your character’s hair, skin, eyes an outfit. You’ve also got different shapes, numbers, and arrows to choose from (good for practicing numeracy skills). You’ll see it is only limited by our imagination. And probably for us, language teachers the most important feature is the speech bubbles, where you can add some text to use the target language and make the slides into a small story books, which can be an incredibly motivating tool for sts who don’t like practicing their writing skills.

For a free account you can make 2 storyboards a week and you can choose a 3x1 or a 3x2 layout. After finishing your storyboard you can save and reuse it, moreover you can edit them anytime so you can adjust them to different levels.  With one click you can make it into a slide presentation or print it in different sizes. The classroom edition and upload function to share it with others is only part of the subscription, but there is a free trial period. 

Here is the websites own tutorial from youtube:

There are different scenes categories to choose from, from town, through school and work, to historical and futuristic. You can choose characters from basic, cultural, historical (1600-1950) to monsters, myths and animals. You can also add different accessories to your characters and can colour your character’s hair, skin, eyes an outfit. You’ve also got different shapes, numbers, and arrows to choose from (good for practicing numeracy skills). You’ll see it is only limited by our imagination. And probably for us, language teachers the most important feature is the speech bubbles, where you can add some text to use the target language and make the slides into a small story books, which can be an incredibly motivating tool for sts who don’t like practicing their writing skills.

For a free account you can make 2 storyboards a week and you can choose a 3x1 or a 3x2 layout. After finishing your storyboard you can save and reuse it, moreover you can edit them anytime so you can adjust them to different levels.  With one click you can make it into a slide presentation or print it in different sizes. The classroom edition and upload function to share it with others is only part of the subscription, but there is a free trial period. 

What can you use it for?

Task A

Simple vocabulary boards

1. Highlight the word by separating it
2. Add picture of the context
3. Add definition of the word, or put it into context
4. Add a dialogue

Task B

Character description

Create character cards while reading.

Task C

Plot diagram

Demonstrate the story you read.

Task D

Teaching cause and effect or antonyms and synonyms

Task E

Know, Want,( How), Learn (what you Know, what you Want to know, (How will you get the information), what you Learned)

Definitely worth spending some time discovering it, after that it’ll take only minutes to create your slides I guarantee!

Webite

www.storyboardthat.com