Here is the page with the 5 groups I had to create ( free account only allows 5 students for each teacher).
And here I post the links to two stories created by some groups of the class. The time has been around 1 hour and a half. I have explained how the resource was and let them to explore the possibilities in groups. They have chosen the participants in each group and a username and pasword has been assigned to each spokesperson. Then, they have been using it for 45 minutes and we have watched and commented the results. It has been fun and interesting.
VIDEO1
VIDEO 2
As I am teaching children under 13, I have been trying other resources, for example Folding Story and Wikistory but I have found boring for them ( no pictures, only words ) and not safe for them ( there´s no way to control it and you need permission from parents, so there was not time enough to do it and, of course, I found these resources weren´t worth the effort for the task. It´s better for older students and more skilled with English. The Zimmer Twins at School was far a better option for them and, really, it was very motivating: they have worked together in groups of 4-5 and the results have been average... I suppose they need time to master the commands. But they are eager to try it again and again. It has been a success in terms of motivation!
Then, I used another tool which was very suitable for a whole-class storytelling session: Google Presentations. Here is the result of the story. I hope you enjoy it! It has been quite motivating because they were very curious about how the story was developing and the end. I have used my google account and they came to my laptop to do their respective part... Now you can see how the session has been designed to do this task.
STORY ABOUT TESEO, A GREEK HERO BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS OF 5TH GRADE PRIMARY
Here is the rubric for both activities.
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