Kerpoof
is a great piece of software that you can
use to motivate
children's writing. It is free, colourful and interactive.
Make a Picture - choose a background and make a picture using the graphics provided, use the text button to add text to the page. Print the page out as full A4 or as a card. You can also choose to print it out in full colour or as a colouring book page
.
'Make a Movie' option allows you to create a movie with moving
objects.
There
are 7 different story lines to pick from, several scene pages and
a limited amount of graphics for each page. Choose from the
animation list to animate the objects. Text can be added to the
scene as well. It can be saved to an account at Kerpoof or
printed.
There
are 7 different story lines to pick from, several scene pages and
a limited amount of graphics for each page. Choose from the
animation list to animate the objects. Text can be added to the
scene as well. It can be saved to an account at Kerpoof or
printed.
'Make a drawing' has drawing tools where you can create a picture
and print it out.
'Make a card' has 8 preset cards including Birthday, Thank you
etc. with a limited set of graphics to add.
The 'Make a Story 'is my favourite option with 19 different
scenes,
some
graphics, text boxes and text speech bubbles. You can also add
more scenes to the story.
some
graphics, text boxes and text speech bubbles. You can also add
more scenes to the story.
This would be a great site for those children who don't have
anything to write about as it provides the scenes and graphics,
but they get to add the words. They can manipulate the graphics
and can add their own drawings to it by using the pen tool. It
prints out beautifully as well.