S'pore program helps kids write e-books
They can make their pictures move and shoot videos to go with stories CHILDREN can now write and publish their own e-books, complete with videos and animation, courtesy of a computer program designed in Singapore.
KooBits, as it is called, has caught on like wildfire in schools here and overseas. Three years ago, only four schools here used it; that number has now grown to 80. About 80,000 budding writers in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and China are users.
The program's appeal lies in its host of easy-to-use multimedia features, said teachers and students.
Students write stories and illustrate these by picking from a gallery of licensed clip-art images. A patented technology enables them to animate the images by keying in commands, so they do not need to know how to use the more-complex Adobe Flash animation software.
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