At first I was going to pass on this site because I saw that to sign up the students had to use emails and I just don't like that BUT then I scrolled down a little further and saw that teacher's can create their own accounts, which I made a "mock" class because I'm not with the students that I want to do the following lesson with yet. It is very teacher friendly, even providing lesson plans. In the beginning another reason I was going to give it the heave ho was that it looked like a lot of animation but not a lot of substance.
And yet, I found a way I might use it. I do a Cinderella unit with 3rd graders where they rewrite Cinderella with a cultural twist from a country they have researched. One of the lessons leading to this project is allowing the students to get familiar to the characteristics of a Cinderella and come up with an idea for an alternate Cinderella (RoboCinderella, GatorCinderella, Space Cinderella,etc.). They love this lesson because they truly get to be creative and we often time breeze through it. Kerpoof would be an excellent avenue to allow them to let their creativity flow and keep a running storyline using the movie format.
Let's go to the movies!
P.S. I also do a Writer's Guild with either second graders or third graders and it would be awesome to use the collaborative part of Kerpoof for them to write a story jointly.
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I like the collaborative idea. Kids could illustrate alternative endings, save and share them! Neat ideas!
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