PE5_Little Bird Tales

So as I was creating the Letters Body project on Little Bird Tales, I realized I had to create a few pages because I couldn't find the pages after I created them. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE, SAVE! So I realized I needed to save each page after creating it. It seems obvious, but it's not a Word doc. I thought the page, by page creation process automatically saved each page. If you look on the right side of this screen shot you'll see that it shows each page that I saved. I also realized I could click on the images in the right and edit the page. In addition, I can rerecord the audio for any page. 

It's a good thing that this happened before I demonstrated Little Bird Tales with my target group for my scenario. I will demonstrate to early childhood education teachers how to create a multimedia story through the web 2.0 tool, Little Bird Tales.  I will also facilitate a discussion about strategies to use to implement multimedia stories into the early childhood environment. Learners will brainstorm and develop two lesson plan ideas that will incorporate Little Bird Tales. 

As I was exploring Little Bird Tales, I thought of the following lesson plan ideas. Teachers can create class slideshows of student’s work. For example teachers can create a slideshow of one student’s work or a slide show of several students work based on a theme. This is an excellent way to share students’ work with parents. Another lesson idea is to have preschoolers take pictures of shapes, colors, numbers, letters and/or words in their environment. They can then talk about their findings in a Little Bird Tales Slide show. This is a great tool for teaching, reinforcing and sharing concepts and student’s work.