Smilebox and Storybird

I enjoyed learning about Smilebox and Storybird on Tuesday. I was not sure how all of the web2.0 tools that we are learning about could differ greatly. I thought that they might just be slightly different variations of one another, but Smilebox and Storybird serve nowhere close to the same purpose. I am a big fan of pictures so I liked learning about Smilebox. I want to make use of photos in my classroom to help bring it to life! I could use Smilebox for slideshows of classroom events to enhance the classroom community, or students could make slideshows demonstrating what they have learned. Storybird has a more specific function. I think it would be very useful in an English classroom. I was not particularly enthralled by the tool, but my classmate who sits beside me certainly enjoyed it. And it is good to have Storybird in my repertoire of tools because you never know when it could come in handy. I am going to have favorites out of the tools that we are learning about, but it is certainly useful to hear about and play around with all of them.