How teachers use Sutori for ELL?

How teachers use Sutori for ELL? 

Sutori is a “collaborative instructional and presentation tool.” It can be used as an alternative to traditional presentations such as PowerPoint or Prezi. The stories can be viewed one panel at a time, like a slideshow, or scrolled through, like a timeline. Sutori is made for student-centered classrooms, since it requires students to be engaged into putting many resources together. Also, teachers can use Sutori to create linear presentations that students will view in class or at their own pace.

Sutori is easy to learn with an intuitive user interface and straightforward functionality. Privacy is not a concern on Sutori, their revenue comes from subscriptions, not ads, and thus all the information is kept private and not shared with any third party. Overall Sutori is an accessible site which supports most screen readers, but contains some user interface elements that screen readers struggle to read.

Learning Activities

• Math: Students can create a Sutori about a specific mathematician of their choosing, laying out their life accomplishments in chronological order
• Science: Students can create a Sutori about their experiments during a lab report and showcase their findings in a chronological order from hypothesis to results
• English/Language Arts: Students can create an outline for a book report. Creating one point along the timeline for each chapter and meaningful event mentioned in the book
• History: Students can create timelines for any historical events from the Spanish Inquisition to World War II, highlighting important event, dates, and people
• Art: Students can create a timeline of what has happened to a piece of art during its lifetime, for instance the Mona Lisa being made in 1503, being sold to Napoleon in 1800, and then stolen in 1911. Students can also curate pieces of art in a timeline format of when they were painted.

How to Use Sutori

1. Go to the Sutori website: https://www.sutori.com/
2. Click the “Sign Up” button at the top right
3. Once logged in, it will take your dashboard. To create a store click on “Create Story”
4. Choose if you want to create an empty story or start from a template
5. Type the title for your story
6. Hover the mouse underneath the title to add new elements such as text, video or image
7. Once you choose an element, fill out the element with the appropriate information
8. Click away from the element to save the edit and move onto adding more elements
9. Once your Sutori is done, click on share to share it with peers or the instructor