Product Overview
This mobile learning app is a supplement to an English class and incorporates common core principles. Users practice and develop storytelling skills. It is best on a laptop or iPad. The learning tasks get users to observe and take notes about their surroundings for story inspiration. Users create at least one digital story to share.
Target Audience: 5th grade students
Instructional Objectives: Develop a plot that includes at least 3 characters, design a setting for the story, write at least 5 paragraphs that use proper punctuation and grammar, create an animated video of at least 5 minutes, and incorporate 3 multimedia elements
Tools used: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Character Animate
Tale Weavers Introduction Video
In this introduction video, Weaver, the friendly spider, introduces the app, Tale Weavers, and shares some of its key features. Check it out!
For a closed caption version, click here.
Explore the design and app components
Main Page
Users create a profile with their email and cell for dual authentification.
Users login with their user name or email.
Users enter the code that was sent to their phone on their account.
Users explore the learning objectives, lesson plan, and rubric.
Users create a story title that can be changed later on.
The instructor can customize a rubric to share with their students.
Users explore a site where they can take notes and find inspiration for their digital story.
Explainer videos are embedded by the teachers to help the users develop effective stories.
Users generate visual pages with text that will be displayed in their final digital story.
Users create visual pages. They can embed backgrounds, shapes, GIFs, and draw. Users are also tasked to generate the text for their story on this page.
Users select an avatar and a voice to tell their story and then they download/share.
Users can see other's videos and give feedback.
Users can share their digital stories with their friends, family, and their teacher.