Storybird - ICT, Creativity, Freedom, Fun

So, If you haven't yet experienced anything to do with the wonderful Storybird, I suggest you put your hiking shoes on and wander over to it. A great resource with easy to use format and interfacing, Storybird allows you to write your own stories and use existing artwork to create it into a digital book that you can share. There's options to read stories and browse artwork, as well as very clear and concise information for parents, teachers, artists and so forth. You create your own account which is used to store all your stories in the one place, but also you can create a 'school' or 'class' account which makes it easy for teachers to monitor what students have done/are doing.
Click here for blog on further pros of having teacher account
Here's a storybird I prepared earlier...
http://storybird.com/books/mousies-discovery/

Modern Family shows us just how big the digital era is

Please have a look at this clip - it's funny and really demonstrates the shift in society's reliance on technological items (especially younger generations).We used this at the end of our ICT presentation about PD for teachers around ICT. Basically we were trying to make the point that as technology is such a big part of taday's world, teacher's need to know about it! As well as this we need to make sure PD is directed at the right level for each teacher and we also pointed out that in-house PD sessions are much more effective than external sessions.
Also, going back to the clip from 'Modern Family', the whole episode is pretty hilarious. The older daughter ends up winning as she fools her parents into thinking she's talking on her mobile. Her father, thinking he's won, straight away grabs a laptop and she then reveals that she'd carved the shape of a mobile phone out of a bar of soap, and coloured it in with a permanent marker and spent the last two days talking to herself.