Writing How-To Pieces with Story Kit

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that you already know about Story Kit. It is old news. Your kids already use it. Though those things are true, I thought I would throw out how it was used today. This morning I worked with two first grade classrooms. The students had a sheet of paper had several boxes for illustrations and spaces for written text. The students made a how-to draft on this sheet of paper, and used the illustrations for use in StoryKit. Instead of using multiple pieces of paper for publishing, students used Story Kit and took pictures of their illustrations using the iPod touch. Check it out for yourself!

[caption id="attachment_1142" align="aligncenter" width="632"] First grade students publishing with Story Kit[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1143" align="aligncenter" width="632"] Publishing from the draft. This process took 30 minutes.[/caption]

Examples:
http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=5vtcrfpj46wp6laftokj
http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=fkcney5bqjzyecuoa4xz
http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=7sms4hhdsi7hveoitepj
http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=c3jen374ugwsc2hchyuc