StoryKit
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Ben Bederson | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
To create your story:
* Write some text.
* Illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album.
* Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects.
* Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize.
* Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book.
Your story is always saved in your iPhone. Carry it with you and work on it any time. Upload your story to the StoryKit web server and email a link to the story from within the app. No account is necessary. Stories are private.
The application includes four public domain children's books that you can rewrite and rearrange into your own new story. These are scans of the original bound books that have been specially processed for use on the iPhone. Take "The Three Bears" and make them four. Rewrite "The Three Little Pigs" with the wolf as the victim. Or, start with a blank book and write whatever story is on your minds.
Send us feedback at [email protected].
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In order to improve StoryKit, the application sends us anonymous usage data. The usage data contains no personal information or content from your stories. However, if you upload stories to our website, we may look at those to see how StoryKit is being used and understand what kinds of features would be useful to add in the future. We will not share your stories with anyone outside our research group without your express permission.
StoryKit was designed by researchers at the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab as a basis for studying how mobile devices can be a conduit for children to work with their family members doing creative and educational activities. The idea is that by creating stories on iPhone - as opposed to paper and pens - you can find time to work on these activities anytime and anywhere. When you're done, you can carry it with you in your pocket, show it to friends and family you meet in your daily life, or send it electronically to people who live further away.
Supported by the National Science Foundation
www.childrenslibrary.org
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
Reviews
I love it!
Some iPod Lover
I'm writing awesome stories with this app. I only want a couple fixes: 1⃣➡Crashes when viewing a book with 30+ pages⬅1⃣ 2⃣➡Color and size⬅2⃣ Otherwise, 5 stars!
OMG Its Awesome!!!!!!!
Lexi4768890
This is the BEST story app YOU could get! Its totally PERFECT! More than perfect! You should really get this app!?????
Love it, but….
Cooking Teacher
We have been using the iPads in our High School Culinary Arts classroom and this app has been great for creating different presentations. Many of my students have complained about the lack of variety in regards to fonts, font colors and background options. They think this app would go from ok for a presentation to awesome IF it provided them the ability to be more creative.
Awesome app!
Harrystylesluvr
Awesome app! Really amazing, just one little prob... Crashes if 30+ pages.. :/ if that was fixed... ITD BE PERFECT. still love it... Just tht one problem. Anywho, amazing!
Perfect and Easy
snowball2979
Works great. I made a story, drew my own cover then made it into a audiobook. It's awesome. GET IT NOW!!!
50-50
DrawSomethingLuvr
Well, I got this app and I was IN LOVE with it. I made this really great story that I really wanna work on it (it's like 69 pages long) but when I click on it, the app crashes. I still love the app, just plzzz fix that I really wanna work on my story! Thx. Oh and for anyone who needs another resort because they're frustrated with it crashing, try DraftPad in the app store. It's not like book format but it's a new way to save your stories. And it saves a log of your history(auto saves every minute). It's really convenient! Happy writing!
