Showing posts with label free interactive books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free interactive books. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

StoryKit Possibilities

StoryKit is a free iPhone/iTouch/iPad app from the International Children's Digital Library.  It allows the user to create story books using multimedia including images and audio clips.  Integrated into the program is a paint program and ability to share books you make.

You can use this app to create scrapbooks of recent classroom events, social stories and visual schedules.  Essentially you are limited only by your creativity.

If you download the free ARASAAC or Scelera Picture Symbol (or the Mayer-Johnson PCS Metafiles or similar) set onto your iDevice you can intergrate picture symbols into your "book".  Otherwise you can use photographs you take with the camera (on an iPhone or iPad) or import through iTunes.

StoryKit has the possibility to replace some of the more expensive prompting (a  visual schedule could be created with one picture per "page" and audio of what happens next and a child taught to turn the page when done with each step or his helper could do that for him) or storyboard programs, so long as you aren't looking to have an alarm or timer. 

StoryKit also has access to the books in the International Children's Digital Library to read and share together.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Some Interactive Story Sites

  • Myths and Legends is a website dedicated to the tales of the British Isles. There are thirty plus stories here which are read aloud while a picture with animation is also shown on the screen. You can set the narration to auto or turn auto off and place the mouse arrow over next page and put a switch user in control. (The site also contains teacher resources and a story creator program.)
  • Rockford's Rock Opera is an interactive, beautiful, audiobook you watch as on the screen as it plays. It is about a dog named Rockford and his adventures as he learns about ecology. The first chapter is free. It was created, in part, by the World Wildlife Fund.
  • Europe of Tales is a site which shares stories from all around Europe. This site is interactive but is NOT narrated (though a teacher could read aloud the content).
  • FableVision has a variety of telefables and audiostories.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Fabulous Freebies!!!

Link for every thing from free music to free worksheets, from free software to free picture symbols. Enjoy! (This perma post updated July 1, 2008.)

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Two More FREE Interactive Book Websites

Browser Books are very simple, leveled books. There are ten levels on a variety of topics. You press the arrows to turn pages and click on the words to hear them read.

Silly Books are flash animations of children's books. There are also flash videos of songs and some interactive games. Some of the books have "click on the word" vocabulary support. I have been experimenting with downloading some of these books and inserting into PowerPoint, Classroom Studio and Clicker 5 for greater accessibility with some success.

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