StoryBuilder
By Mobile Education Tools
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Description
Winner - Best reading app of 2011 by the Huffington Post
Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation ; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders.
Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative.
FEATURES
-Record feature allows students to record narrative in their own voice
-3 levels of play
-Simple and intuitive interface to record narrative
-Recorded answers are stitched together to create complete narrative
-50 distinct story lines to create narrative from
-500 audio clips of questions to guide narrative
-Optional question text and answer introduction reinforcement
-Email recorded stories
LANGUAGES
- English
REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with Iphone or iTouch
-2nd and 3rd gen iTouch require external speaker/microphone combo
- Recommended device - HF-IPHONE3MICBK from www.accessorygeeks.com
- Requires 4.1 software update
Story Builder features SmarTots, the premier mobile education application network for families.
SmarTots provides learning reports and mobile education app reviews that help parents understand what their children are learning. Signing up for SmarTots also gives parents access to fun activities that enhance the educational value of mobile education apps like this one. Click the Parent Button inside this app to get these great features.
Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 6-10, 10+
Categories: Special Needs
What's New in Version 1.6
Fixed bug causing runtime problems with 2nd generation iTouch.
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Customer Reviews
Good tool for struggling learners
Story Builder uses pictures and questioning techniques to illicit responses from the user. The user is able to record their responses into the device, which is complied into a "story", based on answering the comprehension questions. The user is then able to e-mail the response. There are some customizations in the audio and visual, however, there is no speech-to -text integration, nor is there the ability to take data on the responses, or rubric to measure the effectiveness of the responses. I think this is a great app to use in pre-teaching, or reinforcement of comprehension skills, especially in Speech Therapy. I would like to see the ability to have more control over customizations, a menu indicating what pictures are on the app (ie trajectory of lessons), and the ability to take data in some fashion. I would also like to have the ability to use my own pictures and record the questions as well.
Review submitted on behalf of Apps for Children with Special Needs (A4cwsn)
Great for young learners
This is a great program for young learners who are beginning to talk about picture scenes. The program provides a nice variety of scenes and questions to help get the child talking. I played this with a 5 year old with PDD who was able prior to this to make sole statements about occurrences in pictures, and simple statements about emotions based on facial expressions. My student also reads at a 1st grade level, so she could make use of the textual prompts. She needed some help to speak after starting the recording, but enjoyed it and asked for more.
StoryBuilder review
I like the ability to email the stories. Students love to share with their parents! I would give it 5 stars if the prompts were read out loud for Level 1 and if there was a bit more customization so we could have stories that play to the student's interests. This can be done by skipping the picture at the first prompt but you don't know what's coming for the next stories until you see the picture. The story builder does have scaffolding so as students learn how to build the story, they can have less prompting.
- $5.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Mar 07, 2011
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 23.8 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: T. Kyle Tomson
- © Northwest Kinematics 2010. All rights reserved
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
