kateinnovation

Today’s presentation showed me that there are a number of creative technologies out on the internet for students to use.  We first looked at Kerpoof, which is an internet site that students can join for free and create their own stories.  Students can select from a variety of different background and items for their stories.  This site seemed relatively easy to use and students can save, print and edit their work. 

The second site we explored was Piki Kids.  This site allows you to design and create your own comics.  Students can download photos and add entertaining captions.  Again this site is very easy to use and students have the choice of making their comics either private or public.  The main downfall of this site is it contains a number of adverts along the top of the page.  A lot of the time these adverts aren’t appropriate for young children. 

The final site we learnt about today was called Fotoll.  Which is a website designed for creating a viewing polls.  Students can create their own polls comparing two different subjects, view votes and also comments that others made on their poll.  The problems with this site are that it doesn’t offer any safety options for students and all polls are public.