alps StoryMaker: Authors Interactive CD
Published on 1. December 2001
Software
CD-ROM
978-1-85539-101-7 (ISBN)
Description
This CD-ROM accompanies the StoryMaker manual and adds another dimension to pupils' creative writing. Features include: "side-bars" offering the author's commentary on the background to the stories; an interactive map of the stories' locations that links to a photo gallery of scenes from the tales; the full text of both "Double Dare Gang" storybooks; and on-screen templates that bring greater depth and immediacy to learners' story-making games. A mouseclick allows pupils to hear the tales read by the author. The CD allows whole-class, group or individual work at the keyboard and the activities are fully supported by teaching notes. Photocopiable pages from the ALPS StoryMaker manual can be printed from the disc. The Weblinks offer access to Steve Bowkett's website, which features a wealth of information on his other books, including thousands of words of text - novels, short stories, poems.
This CD-ROM accompanies the StoryMaker manual and adds another dimension to pupils' creative writing. Features include: "side-bars" offering the author's commentary on the background to the stories; an interactive map of the stories' locations that links to a photo gallery of scenes from the tales; the full text of both "Double Dare Gang" storybooks; and on-screen templates that bring greater depth and immediacy to learners' story-making games. A mouseclick allows pupils to hear the tales read by the author. The CD allows whole-class, group or individual work at the keyboard and the activities are fully supported by teaching notes. Photocopiable pages from the ALPS StoryMaker manual can be printed from the disc. The Weblinks offer access to Steve Bowkett's website, which features a wealth of information on his other books, including thousands of words of text - novels, short stories, poems.
This CD-ROM accompanies the StoryMaker manual and adds another dimension to pupils' creative writing. Features include: "side-bars" offering the author's commentary on the background to the stories; an interactive map of the stories' locations that links to a photo gallery of scenes from the tales; the full text of both "Double Dare Gang" storybooks; and on-screen templates that bring greater depth and immediacy to learners' story-making games. A mouseclick allows pupils to hear the tales read by the author. The CD allows whole-class, group or individual work at the keyboard and the activities are fully supported by teaching notes. Photocopiable pages from the ALPS StoryMaker manual can be printed from the disc. The Weblinks offer access to Steve Bowkett's website, which features a wealth of information on his other books, including thousands of words of text - novels, short stories, poems.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stafford
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
ISBN-13
978-1-85539-101-7 (9781855391017)
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Person
Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.
Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.
Stephen Bowkett is a full-time writer of novels that span the age range and various genres, as well as a creative writing tutor and qualified hypnotherapist. He has 18 years' experience as a teacher of English. As a member of an advisory group to the national Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education he helped to discuss the nature of 'creativity' and translate basic definitions and principles into practical activities that teachers could use with pupils immediately, and easily, within the framework of the National Curriculum. ALPS StoryMaker is Steve's twenty-seventh published book.