Firstly Story Jumper is a web-publishing tool, a digital story telling that enables it users to create their own story books with images, texts, and most importantly with a narration. It's totally free.
Everyone can use it, it has simple and basic usage but I personally think that it has material mostly appropriate for young learners but again if you add your own materials, you can make it suitable for older learners.
All you have to do is create a free account and then you can create your own story book! In your story book you can add a title and your name to cover page. Then you can add as many pages as you want. You can add props, scenes, speech bubbles to your story.
If you don't like the materials Story Jumper offers to you can find more of them by searching via its search engine or upload your own materials.
While you are working on your story, you can share it with your friends to get some help. After you have completed the story you can share it to public(on social media or any web site by copying embedded code), allow other users to see it or copy and improve it, Furthermore you can even print it ( by purchasing it), making a hard copy!
Among all different digital story telling tools, I selected this one as it enables you to add many visual material but most importantly it enables you to add narrations.
On the other hand my friend and I prepared a task. We tried to figure out how we could use this tool in educational way. We come up with a task for young learners. In the task students are supposed to create a story about their favorite pets. We gave them some instructions like; select 3 characters from your favorite pets, use at least 5 speech bubbles... And we gave the main structure of the story. They have to complete it according to their choices. You can see the other details the hand-out we gave.
We created a story to give an example of the task we created. We followed our instructions one by one and completed our story.
I recommend StoryJumper to all teachers who want to make their students more creative and make English learning more enjoyable!
Here you can find PowerPoint version of our presentation:
Here you can see our task hand-out:
Here you can find our example story
Here you can access my friend Alper's blog
The picture above is taken from here.
Thank You,
Ahmet Enes
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