My students are required to create a storybook to be used with an after school tutoring program, which caters to elementary students. Students are encouraged to create stories that promote self-esteem, sharing, eco-friendly characters, as well as themes of overcoming adversity and meeting life's challenges.
Prior to my discovery of tikatok.com the students typed their projects, created their own illustrations, and had their books bound at the local copy store or bound the works themselves.
With the discovery of tikatok students can now create their stories, illustrate them and publish them. They can order copies of their books in either paperback or hard. The ability to use their works when teaching and tutoring young children not only helps build the self-esteem of the student tutors, but builds a mentor\mentee relationship between tutor and young student.
I can only imagine how students will react to this site. Who knows, we may have the next award winning children's author sitting in our classroom.
References
Tikatok - Imagine a Story. Create a Book.. (n.d.). Retrieved October 18, 2009, from http://www.tikatok.com
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