Storybird takes flight

So after thinking about Hendron's article I wanted to see if there was a way I could get my children's work right out into the aether as well as them having the opportunity to respond to other  with out setting up a blog or wiki (I did set up a blog last year but it died a slow horrid death and I forgot the login!). I happened to bump into a site called Storybird (www.storybird.com). It allows users to choose a set of art work and then compose a story based on that artwork. The story can be published and then viewed by family, friends, or anyone who is around at the time. The children really got stuck in with writing their stories but what I found the most encouraging was that most, if not all of them went home that night and wrote more stories! The children also enjoyed receiving comments from other users and it was very exciting when some of the artists replied and said how good the stories were. 

Here is an example of one of the stories