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Little Story Creator - Digital Scrapbooking and Photo Collage Maker

Mindprint Rating

Tags

^Music, Art and Makerspaces Elementary School iOS App

Skills

Flexible Thinking Expressive Language

Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • App is very easy-to-use with straight-forward icons.
  • Students can add audio that will automatically play when someone opens their design.
  • Strong parental controls.

Considerations

  • The audio plays while highlighting the title, but it does not match up perfectly and the feature cannot be turned off.

Mindprint Expert Review

This is an easy-to-use app that enables students to easily create simple, multi-media designs or multi-page books using combinations of pictures, text, drawings, and audio. While non-readers could easily use this app, it will still feel appropriate for all elementary school students. The app leads the student to select a background wallpaper, and the large and easily understandable icons will direct them to add whatever they choose on the page. They can add additional pages, including duplicating pages, if they wish to tell a progressive story. Students can easily record audio that will automatically play when the file is opened. The students' files will be saved and can easily be emailed from the app. Overall, a good, straight-forward app for students to enjoy create designs and stories.

Academic Benefits

Improves academic skills

  • Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
  • Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
  • Presents educational concepts accurately
  • Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
  • Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
  • Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
  • Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
  • Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Has a free or trial version
  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
  • Multiple users can save a profile
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can play without sound and not distract others
  • Students can save work between sessions
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Manufacturer Description

"WOW. This app makes creating and sharing stories super simple and easy! It's perfect for kids. LOVE IT! What a treasure."

Little Story Creator lets you instantly create collages, arrange photos or get creative with videos, text, borders, stickers, videos, audio, drawings, and more. Your family and friends will be amazed with what you can create.

Whether you are 5 or 85, you will find Little Story Creator to be an excellent app to share your photo collection and handiwork with family and friends.

Awesome features:
- Import photos from your photo library, Dropbox, Facebook, and Picassa
- Simple touch gestures to rotate, resize, flick to delete
- Double tap photos, titles, or text areas for advanced editing
- Add add borders, change colors, and copy and paste
- Add up to 30 second long videos to every page
- Supports unlimited number of pages
- Easily share stories as a PDF (requires in-app-purchase)
- Add audio recordings to make your stories come to live
- Add audio highlights to help little ones learn how to read
- Add stickers - hundreds of free stickers included

This is the fastest and simplest way to create a story and share your experiences with family and friends.

Little Story Creator is fast, fun, and free. It's like Photoshop, iMovie, and Keynote meshed up in one beautiful simple app for first graders.

"I fell in love with this app the first time I used it. Now my kids and students can easily share their adventures with their family and grandparents." Jen - iPhone mom and teacher