Over the summer, my husband and I stumbled upon this app called Storybook Reader. I immediately thought it would be a wonderful app to use in the classroom with my students. In this app, you take pictures of pages in a book. Then, you record yourself reading each page. It takes a video of you reading the book, so your little face appears on each page. Once the book is done, it puts it to soft music and is a very nice example of how fluent a student is able to read the pages in a book. I thought it would be neat to have a collection of books the students feel really confident reading throughout the year. In theory, this was a great idea. I tried the app and created my own book and it worked great. Then, I taught it to the students and my example project also worked great. But when all the students started to use the app, we had many issues and problems creating their books. It was not the students' faults. They were doing everything right. The app has a lot of bug issues and was acting funny. A few kids were able to make their books successfully, but unfortunately, some were not because the app wouldn't let them delete or record without giving them problems. Because I was able to use this app successfully several times, I still recommend it because you can make two books for free. However, I am going to find an alternative way to do a similar project.
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