Review of Storyjumper.com

There are a lot of great digital storytelling tools, such as "educreations.com", "storybird.com", and "storyjumper.com". However, today I'm going to go over Storyjumper.com which is one of the greatest online storytelling tools that is very easy to make a digital book. Before I explain further, I would like to share the importance of digital storytelling first. The digital storytelling is known for combination of storytelling and multimedia tools, and the reason why the digital storytelling is important is because it can be interesting and fun learning, effective communication tool, easy to access and make, improve output skills(speaking), and develop creativity and self confident. For teachers, you can apply any subject on your stories for your students, too. For examples of learning geography, you can describe interesting area, president Lincoln story for history class, and weather for science class.

There are some considerable pros and cons of Storyjumper.com. The good things for Storyjumper is that they offer a lot of pictures and icons to choose whatever suits for your story. They provide various functions so that you can change the font style and size, you can write anywhere you like on the page, upload your own photos and pictures and use them in the story. You can also public your stories through online, and since you are able to create up to 16 pages you can create a custom book or revise one of the books they have already made. However, the biggest pro of all is that it is FREE! 

Some of cons I found comparing to the another well known storytelling-website called Storybird.com is that the quality of pictures and images, and you can briefly look over and compare these two websites: www.storyjumper.com vs. www.storybird.com. 

In my opinion,  Storyjumpers' pictures and images are lagging behind the Storybird, because it doesn't offer a wide variety of scenes and props to use, but Storybird seems to deal with more beautiful illustrations, and emotional and decent images that capture the imagination. One great thing of Storybird is that you can write comments for other people about their stories which Storyjumper doesn't offer yet. Though Storyjumper is aimed for elementary students, it would take some discovery for first and second graders to use the tool, and while you could print off a paper copy for free of the book you create, it would cost $25 to order a book version of it.

Overall, I had fun, and enjoyed using storyjumper.com. It could be used as a writing center on an iPad or computers, and just to simply build students imagination and explore their creativity. Personally, while I was creating my own story, I thought it would be a great way to make a custom book for my kids in the future, too. Because I can upload my own pictures and photos for my story, it could be an awesome personalized book for my kids and also a useful reading centers for them.