2Create a Story

KS1 (Years 1 - 2)

English

This product is published by 2Simple Software (Tel: 020 82031781)

2Create a Story encourages children in Foundation Stage and KS1 to make their own multimedia stories and presentations by mixing text, sounds, drawings, animations and even their own recordings using a microphone. Children's stories and presentations can be saved as Flash files and imported into other programs, or viewed on the web. The program prints out the stories in booklet format and allows children to enjoy creative writing. Children can add actions to a picture: spin, rock, explode, move in different directions, appear and disappear. They can change the background colour and the colour of fonts, import sounds and pictures to make a really interesting presentation of their own ideas. They can also add or record sounds using the built in keyboard or with a microphone. I thought this was an excellent addition to the 2Simple range of resources. It could be used on its own or with some of the other 2Simple software.

I used 2Create A Story with a Reception class. The children were given a task to create stories to read to the younger Nursery children using the new interactive whiteboard. They first decided what story or rhyme they were going to write, then choosing one of them as an example we made a whole class story on the classroom computer using the interactive whiteboard. The following week in the ICT suite the children worked together in pairs to write their own stories. Depending on their abilities the children added pictures to their stories, text, sound and animation. When the stories were completed the Nursery children were invited to our classroom to listen to the stories created.