Using Google Doc Story Builder in TILT Staff Development

This past week in my TILT (Teachers Integrating & Learning Technology) staff development program, I had teachers use Google Doc Story Builder in an opening activity. Each teacher had to create a dialog that involved technology (some forgot that parameter, which is okay).  Once we shared our stories, we debriefed this activity by brainstorming ways we could use this tool, either in a teacher directed or student centered activity.

Some ideas we came up with:

1. Introduce a concept prior to starting a lesson
2. Have dialogue between characters in a story - prediction
3. Have dialogue between characters in a story - change the plot
4. Add parts of speech into a given sentence to enhance its flavor
5. Dialog between geometric shapes 
6. Providing steps in a process
7. Bringing science or math objects to life to explain their purpose
8. Review of a concept prior to a quiz or test

The teachers had a lot of fun experimenting with this tool. Check out some their work:
Bobbi
Linda
Nicole

Check out Google Doc Story Builder and share your story with us!