Myths and Legends is a website that allows students to create and view animated tales of legend and lore. Students have the option of sharing with the world their folk tale, myth, or legend. Teachers can register their class for free. Students can create stories for free.
If you
register your class, you will be able to review their work before it's submitted. So if there are things that either inappropriate, inaccurate, or incorrect, you can have them fix those areas before allowing them to publish their stories.
Students can either sign up with their own account, or you can sign up each student.
Be fair warned, there are some cartoon blood elements to the animations. So if you're sensitive or believe your students might be sensitive to that you may want to investigate deeper before registering your class.
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I found the
interface to be rather simple. Most of the animation and scene selection is drag and drop. If students can mainupulate images and objects with Microsoft Word, they should be able to handle the story creator interface. Students can choose from a menu of backgrounds, characters, and sounds. Student have an option of uploading their own images too. There are speech bubbles that students can add and edit. Students can use pre-loaded sound effects to add even more drama to their stories. They can even record their own voice reading the story. Addionally, students can upload their own MP3 audio and sound files to use in their stories.
I could see this website as a place to show examples of student created writing. It could also be used as a place to showcase student writing. I could also see it being used as a way to critique written work as well.
It's a creative outlet to say the least. I hope you get a chance to look at
Myths and Legends soon.
For a sample, watch
Pandora's Box.
