Activity #3

I looked at both ZooBurst and Storybird, and ZooBurst looked a lot easier to navigate and create a story with. Although, once I made the zooburst, I went back to storybird and found it to be just as easy to use. ZooBurst is much prettier than storybird, which is one of many differences. Storybird lets you do more but it does look cluttered and amateurish in some parts. Something that bothered me about zooburst is everything that would make the stories more personal were not available on the free account. Without the ability to record sound or to make personal drawings, zooburst suffered from being somewhat impersonal. Storybird is also impersonal but with it's better drawings it covers up for this. Overall both seem great. I could see myself using them in a lower level course like 9th grade easily. It may be more difficult to convince older students of the merit of the activity, but I could see a few of them really taking to the activity. Storybird and zooburst seem like great tools for giving students choices in demonstrating their understanding.