Puppet Pals is a great app for children to creatively
explore narrative. With this app, teachers can ask students to create and
record their own play and stories. At first, we choose up to 8 characters and
in the free version, we can get some fairy tale settings. We can get other
backgrounds and characters by purchasing. Students can choose any character and
up to 5 backdrops for their stories. It’s a good way to see students’ creative
abilities and how well they use their language. When students get characters on
the stage, they can place them on the backdrop wherever they want and start
recording whenever they’re ready. They record their voice so that they can have
their narration along with that. We can have a couple of students working
together on a project. No matter how many students work on it, they can narrate
themselves in the story. It’s a great way for children to use their creativity
and imagination to create stories and integrate both language arts and fine
arts.
Once they’re done, they can click to save their projects;
title them and export them out. Teachers will be easily seeing all the projects
on iPad.
It’s definitely an useful app for me as a language teacher
to teach literature in a fun way and access students’ reading and writing abilities
as well.
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