Encourage Your Students to Burst Out Their Stories!

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There are numerous free web tools to help encourage and inspire writing in your students! One such tool is ZooBurst (http://www.zooburst.com/). ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. Students can add speech bubbles, titles, and text to their pages. ZooBurst authors can share books with readers using a simple hyperlink, and books can easily be embedded in any website. As an educational tool, ZooBurst provides students with new ways in which they can tell stories, deliver presentations, write reports and express complex ideas. ZooBurst contains a powerful “classroom management” feature for teachers that lets them easily set up protected, safe spaces for their students. Teachers can assign usernames and passwords to their students without having to input any sensitive or personal information and can manage and moderate student work in a protected environment.

The best way to learn more about ZooBurst is to give it a try! I did! Check out this link! http://www.zooburst.com/book/zb02_51fc58817659b

Let me know if I can help you in any way!