Writing Camp with Storybird & Animation Apps

Author

Tekeyla Friday

Description

  • Top Secret Kids’ Writing Camp is a pre-teen program that fosters and encourages participants to write anything from poetry, to novels, to scripts to pop-up books.
  • It uses lots of digital strategies including Storybird for print and digital books and poems, Microsoft Movie Maker, and Lego Movie Maker App for digitally animated stories.
  •  Students learn techniques in script writing of many different types such as puppet show scripts, and theatre scripts.
  • This program is run by one programmer who brings writing experience, physical resources, and lots of technology – including iPads to the camp.
  • The Writing Camp is a regularly scheduled program which meets one evening a week. 
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Family Literacy Day

Author

Winnipeg Public Library

Description

This set of documents support the planning and delivery of a Family Literacy Fun Day event at Winnipeg Public Library.
This is a two hour (duration can be adjusted) come and go event for families to drop in and participate in literacy-based activity stations that promote the playful use of reading, writing and numeracy skills.
A passport encourages everyone to take in all the activities. Resource materials are contained in kits and stored centrally at the main downtown branch.
Branch staff book a kit for a specific date and it is sent out through the library’s delivery system.
On return, consumables are replaced. Volunteers are also arranged centrally by contacting teen members of the library’s Youth Advisory Councils.
The “FLFD Station Instructions KIT B” document is an example of one kit’s signage and instructions for display at each station.

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