Ready, Set, Create!

Voicethread
Mixbook
Storybird

Looking for a way to encourage creative thought and expression with your students?  Try these websites to use visual and audio (Voicethread only) skills to create stories or to simply learn different parts of speech.

Voicethread is on online collaboration tool that allows groups of people to comment on pictures or drawings.  It can be used for creating and narrating stories.  It can also be used to reflect and comment on a specific concept.

Mixbook is an online scrapbook program.  It is a great tool for organizing photos and using different scrapbooking tools and captions to "tell a story" or visually document an event or concept.

Storybird is an online tool used to create art inspired stories.  With a teacher account, you can create classes and assignments where students can respond to a visual prompt or even create a story using the art on the site.