Create Interactive Stories. If you ever wanted to be able to create your own interactive stories for others to enjoy then read on! In this article, we take a look at three different free tools that will let you create ‘interactive stories’ that can combine photos and videos and maps, as well as stories and pages that exist out there, with your own narrative. We present three interactive-story tools: Meograph is a great site that tells your story using Google maps and a Facebook-like timeline-based approach, Storify will let you create, share and swap stories with others in a network and Twine has a simple interface that will let you create your own text-adventure style stories!
Meograph: A great place to start your own interactive story experience Meograph is one of the best ways I have found to get started creating your own interactive stories, and it has been featured by some pretty high profile sites and channels simply because it is so easy to use. Storify: Share your stories with the world for free!
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Storytelling | Xtranormal. Chart Gizmo – Online Chart Builder. Written by Mark Brumley Standardized test results, grade distributions, assessment analyses, you have data coming out of your ears. Creating graphs and reports related to the data is time-consuming and usually takes a back burner in the midst of lesson planning, student issues and the wealth of other responsibilities teachers have on their plates. When your eyes are heavy from looking at the same spreadsheet over and over and you don’t know if you’ll ever make sense of the data, turn to Chart Gizmo. Chart Gizmo allows you to create bar and line graphs, pie charts and seven other types of charts and graphs for summarizing your data. Mark Brumley (112 Posts) Mark Brumley is an educational technology leader, presenter and founder of Teach Amazing, who has lived and worked around the globe in his commitment to provide authentic learning experiences to enhance the education of 21st Century learners.
Diffen – Compare and Contrast Anything. Written by Mark Brumley At any given moment, you can bet a teacher somewhere is asking students to create a t-chart, Venn diagram or another chart for comparing and contrasting. Diffen adds another resource to help students of all ages develop this important skill.
Essentially, Diffen is a collection of comparison charts for users to peruse and update. Since Diffen is designed as a wiki, its topics are limited to what users have contributed. However, the wiki format makes it an ideal tool for getting your students to create their own comparison charts. Using Diffen, elementary students can search for comparison charts for simple subjects such as dogs and cats or Hermione Granger and Harry Potter.
Older students can search for more complex topics, such as RNA vs. Mark Brumley (112 Posts) ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. TerraClues – Google Maps scavenger hunt game. Written by Mark Brumley When you read a novel or study history, sometimes you want to give students an idea of where everything is taking place. Instead of pulling out a map or showing them a picture, give students the opportunity to discover the location for themselves. TerraClues allows teachers to create Internet scavenger hunts, or assign already created scavenger hunts, to help students discover new places. The application uses Google Maps and Google searches to help students find the answers to the clues.
When you create hunts, you also make them available to other teachers and students throughout the world. With TerraClues for Schools, create a private classroom to assign and store hunts for your students. If your students want to complete hunts on their own, have them join public classrooms and go through scavenger hunts created for their grade-levels. Try a tutorial hunt today to see how much your students will learn with TerraClues. Mark Brumley (112 Posts)