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Sunday, April 25, 2010
BP1_2010403_DiscoveringWeb2.0Tools (tikatok.com)
This week I looked at the Web 2.0 tool, tikatok.com.
Tikatok is a tool to make simple children's books on the web. The children can upload scans of their own pictures and drawings to be used to illustrate the books. There are story templates with a basic storyline and place for pictures to be added or you can design a storybook from scratch using your own story and pictures.
This looks to be a great tool for education as children can take their artwork and stories and have them printed in a softcover or hardcover book. This takes art in the classroom into Web 2.0. Along with individual registration, teachers can sign up for a master account with the ability to have all their students book projects in one place. This would make a great project for students to participate and a great way for budding artists and writers to get their work published in a professionally printed book.
To test out the service I needed images so I broke out my colored pencils (thought Crayons might melt in my scanner!) and did some artwork for a storybook template called Land of the Dinosaurs, an adventure story of a young boy (I was one once) and his mom traveling the globe on adventures. Though we never encountered dinosaurs as a preschooler my mom did drag me all over Southern California on day trips, most notably our many trips to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA and I believe we also went to the famous Farmer's Market at 3rd and Fairfax in Los Angeles. As I said before no dinosaurs encounters in my real life, but man there are some scary looking ones in my Tikatok storybook!
So I colored 3 pictures that I scanned to my Mac and then uploaded to the Tikatok site. I chose a title for the book, put in my name and my mom's name and then began adding the pictures and some text and oila in just a few minutes the wonderful adventure story below is available to the world. Being that I can't post a real book that I won't get for a week or so, below is the preview PDF of my exciting story.
For those who want a Web 2.0 spin for their art or story writing classes or if you are a teacher that would like to make your own book go to http://www.tikatok.com.
Land of Dinosaurs Book
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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