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Try This Web 2.0 Tool…

Bookr

In my constant search to find creative and fun ways to motivate my students in the classroom, I found a 2.0 web tool called Bookr.  Bookr is a tool where students can create and share photobooks using images they find in Flickr.  Imagine the creativity you can add to teaching Ancient Egypt, Place values, the water cycle or various other academic concepts though digital storytelling. Digital storybooks can be easily integrated into an existing Writing, Social Studies, Science, and Math curriculum project. Bookr can allow for supplemental learning to the traditional lecture by demonstrating what they have learned through hands on learning. Completing a project as a group in Bookr will increase collaborating and cooperative peer-to-peer learning. To implement Bookr in your classroom you will began by having the students research and compile information for the script and ideas for their digital storybook. Then the students will prepare a storyboard where they will begin to map out the ideas of the storybook. Next, the students began to gather images for the storybook using Flickr. Then finally the students will compile the graphics and text into a demonstration of their knowledge of the content learned. Once the project is completed, the students can present the project in various ways. They can present the project to the class, archived the finished project to the site or send the link to friends and family or post the embed code to a bloew tool you will enjoy a wealth of Web 2.0 tools you can use in your classroom if you visit http://www.pimpampum.net/.

Dupain, P. M., & Maguire, M. E. (2005 ). 21st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Digital Story Book Projects 101: How to Create and Implement Digital Storytelling Into Your Curriculum. 05-06, pp. 1-4. Wisconsin: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.

Fuster, A., & Julià, D. (2006). Bookr. Retrieved October 10, 2010, from PIMPAMPUM.net: http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php