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StoryCorps

Amazing app makes capturing and sharing family stories a breeze

By Amanda Bindel, Common Sense Media

Parents need to know that the StoryCorps app is a platform for planning, conducting, and sharing oral history interviews that can be cataloged in the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is broadcast weekly on NPR and is available as a podcast. Through the app, listeners can hear featured stories that have been curated or listen to any stories created by other users and shared in a social mediastyle feed. The terms of use specify that users should be 18 or that those over 13 but under 18 have a parHQW V SHUPLVVLRQ EXW LW V GHÀQLWHO\ SRVVLEOH IRU NLGV under 13 to operate the app successfully. Teens can create and record interviews but not share them pubOLFO\ 5HDG WKH DSS V SULYDF\ SROLF\ WR ÀQG RXW DERXW the types of information collected and shared. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? The StoryCorps project has been around for years, starting in physical recording booths set up for people to interview loved ones and share stories. The app gives anyone, anywhere the means to plan, prepare, and execute an interview and share it with the world (or keep it to themselves). Questions are organized by theme: warm-up, parents or grandparents, military service, school experiences, and more. Interviewers add questions to their queue and then scroll through them as they record. Then the interview can be saved and shared. IS IT ANY GOOD? Everything needed for a deep, thoughtful interview — from themed questions to recording tips to an audience —is available and easy to use in this impressive tool. The questions are thoughtful and discussion-provoking, and the StoryCorps interface is super-easy to use, allowing for a polished yet casual conversation. The feed displays featured stories, which are impressively inspirational. Users can also follow friends and family and share stories with them more privately. The technology is amazing, and the stories are priceless. APP DETAILS Devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Kindle Fire Price: Free Release date: August 18, 2016 Category: Education Size: 30.70 MB Publisher: StoryCorps, Inc. Minimum software requirements: iOS 7.0 or later; Android 4.0 and up Rating: Recommended for ages 13 and older