Today’s post is a bit of a blend between Media Monday and Website Wednesday. Imagine old-school media like BOOKS brought to life through technology. The International Children’s Digital Library allows you and your students to browse and read any of the 10,000 books in about 100 languages online. The site even has a number of suggested activities, so your students may use the site independently or as a group.
For example, if you’d like to introduce your class to a universal tale about responsibility, perhaps you could all view Fafi’s Sheep on the SMART Board together. Learning that children in other countries and cultures face some of the same problems we do is an important lesson, and seeing Ethiopia’s Amharic writing alongside the English words is interesting as well.
You and your students may create your own accounts in order to save books you like, and you can create your own digital story with the ICDL-created iPhone App called “StoryKit.” Visit the Apple AppStore and search for StoryKit.