StoryBots: Personalized Kids ebooks, apps and videos

JibJab is a website where you can create e-greeting cards with the innovative “Starring You” technology that allow people to insert themselves into animated cards. Now JibJab expanded in a new direction: children’s entertainment with StoryBots. Their vision for StoryBots was to build a “Sesame Street for a connected generation.” Using a cast of colorful, simply designed characters that they call StoryBots, they built kid-friendly products that are designed for mobile and tablet devices. These include apps, ebooks, games, and videos. Educational content and personalization is a key component of many of these products.

The initial StoryBots launch includes five separate products:

StoryBots Starring You StoryBooks: A free iPad app that enables parents to create personalized, animated eBooks that include their child’s name and face in the stories.

StoryBots Starring You Band: A free video series on the web that allows parents to insert their kids directly into music videos and jam out alongside the StoryBots.

The StoryBots ABC Jamboree: A collection of 26 one-minute, foot-tapping music videos designed to help kids recognize the sounds and shapes of the letters of the alphabet.

The StoryBots Activity Center: A place on StoryBots.com where parents can download and print over 100 free coloring, tracing, mazes and word finds to – ironically enough – help get their kids off of the computer and back to the kitchen table with crayons and pencils.

The StoryBots Beep & Boop iPhone app: Turns learning good behavior into a game kids love, bringing old-school reward chart systems into the 21st century. Parents give kids BEEPs for good behavior and BOOPs as reprimands. Parents can use the app to create goals and prizes to motivate and celebrate their children’s achievements.