With 2 million members, Storybird is ‘reverse-engineering’ the picture book
Mark Ury came up with the concept for the storytelling site Storybird in 2010 after working on a storybook with his young son. The website, for “art-inspired storytelling,” now has more than two million members. It “works with artists from around the world, who upload their portfolios onto Storybird’s platform. Users choose their art, sequence the images any way they like and add text to turn them into a story,” explains paidContent.
The content is then shareable on social networks and can be embedded into blogs. According to the article, the HTML5Storybird site looks good on an iPad.
Originally envisioned for the family, Storybird is now in more than 125,000 schools, “with teachers issuing assignments to students and using the site in the classroom to help kids with their writing skills,” writes paidContent.
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