What is it? Little Bird tales allows you take photos, scanned images or to draw straight into a picture book and add text to support your images. It's biggest feature however is that it allows you to then narrate your story and pop it up online for others to see. It is incredibly simple to use and operates all from within the browser but the biggest downfall I see is that it does not allow you to embed your story into webspace.

How can I use this in the Classroom? I would really recommend this for your junior students due to its simplicity and limited options. Grade preps to around grade 4 will find this a pretty useful tool to create a narrated picture-book or story but older students may tire of it's simplicity a little too fast.

Check out the video below for a full demo of what it can do and click here to access little bird tales.

What is it: Bookr Is a tool to create picture story books using images from Flickr. Simply find images from Flickr through their search engine located on the same screen as the book editor. It is extremely simple to use and would be a better option for junior school students as you can not add large amounts of text to each page. No sign up required. Very Simple to use.

The finished books are presented as animated flash Files that look great on an interactive white board.

How can I use this in the classroom? Show your your students the layout of bookr and how to search for images. read them a picture story book and explain to them that the pictures tell a large amount of the actual story and emphasise that words should be used with a minimalist approach.

Also talk to your students about the best placement of text.

find a theme or topic that your students will have a large range of photos of and are comfortable in writing about. A perfect example would be "A day at the Zoo."

I would love hear from anyone else who has tried Bookr. Check it out here.