Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Why?
Tech4Learning+DigiTales+StoryKeepers.pdf
Unrelenting Desire to Interact
This innate and unrelenting desire to interact was probably best defined Danah Boyd—a PhD student at the University of California-Berkeley studying the networks developing between digital youth—in a 2008 blog post when she wrote:
School is one of the few times when they can get together with their friends and they use every unscheduled moment to socialize - passing time, when the teacher's back is turned, lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. They are desperately craving an opportunity to connect with their friends; not surprisingly, their use of anything that enables socialization while at school is deeply desired.
Boyd goes on to explain the positive role that social networking services can play in the natural growth of a child’s individuality:
Their value is about the kinds of informal social learning that is required for maturation - understanding your community, learning the communicate with others, working through status games, building and maintaining friendships, working through personal values, etc. All too often we underestimate these processes because, traditionally, they have happened so naturally.
Yet, what's odd about today's youth culture is that we've systematically taken away the opportunities for socialization. And yet we wonder why our kids are so immature compared to kids from other cultures. Social network sites are popular because youth are trying to take back the right to be social, even if it has to happen in interstitial ways. We need to recognize that not all learning is about book learning - brains mature through experience, including social experiences. (Boyd)
How?
Simple tools
VT Guide
Story Ideas:
Story It
The Story Starter
Writing Fix
Ideas Across the Curriculum
Technology-enhanced Learning
some Ppt activities
Promote Thinking with Stories
Online Magnet Links
Links to Idea Generators
Maine Writing Project
Story Arts
TrackStars
PhotoStory3
Integrating Stories
Creating A Digital Documentary
8th grade
First Time Storytellers
5th grade
Storytelling Activities & Lesson Plans
Links for Teachers
VisFest
Storytelling
9-12
Lesson Plans
The Word of the Day: A VoiceThread
Adobe Digital School Collections
PBS Multimedia Storytelling
New York Times Lesson Plans
Global Nomads
The Amanda Project
MapSkip
Online Tools?
VoiceThread
http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
NYPL VT - http://nypl.voicethread.com/#q
Animoto for Education
PhotoShow
ToonDoo (cartoon generator)
xtimeline (collaborative timelining tool)
ScrapBlog (online scrapbook production)
OurStory
Toufee
ScrapBlog
PhotoStory Guide
Windows MovieMaker
Wordle
Google Maps
VoiceThread
Mixbook
Audacity
Piclits
Animoto
Glogster
Capzles
Software
Extras
CCMixter - Creative Commons music
Compfight which provides images that can be freely used with Creative Commons licensing with attribution
flickrCC helps you find creative commons pictures in flickr and attribute them easily
Links
http://bachintraining4him.blogspot.com/2009/10/voicethread.html
https://ed.voicethread.com/library/
https://ed.voicethread.com/#u13259.b370421.i1955297
“We are our stories, we compress years of experience, thought and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves” Daniel Pink, a Whole New Wind
Digital storytelling, in short, using technologies to tell stories. It’s a great way to develop visual and media literacy, promote reflection, engage students in their own learning, improve speaking and writing skills, to collaborate, reflect and evaluate.
Here are the first 25 digital storytelling tools that you can use in your classes or just to tell your digital story. I’m sure you are already familiar with some of them and I hope you can find new tools to use.
With Slide, you can create your slide shows with different skins, animations and transitions. You can also create guestbooks for your sites. It allows embedding.
SlideShare lets you upload your powerpoint presentations and share it with others. You can add podcast to your ppts as well. You can embed it. It’s also a great site for improving yourself. There are good ppts ready for you to learn and get inspired.
Imageloop is another site that lets you create slide shows with different animations, skins, transitions. You can add music, create a guestbook and embed it.
I’ve just written about ZimmerTwins on my previous post. It’s the best way to create your digital cartoon and tell a story with it. I’m sure you and your students can create wonderful cartoons.
Pimpampum is another site I’m a fan with its applications. The first one is Bookr, you create online books using Flickr pictures. you can decide on the number of the pages and embed it or send the link to others. The second one is Phrasr, you write anything you want and it finds images that match with each of your word. You can send the links to others. Great way to wish a birthday!! The last one is Bubblr, create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story!
Create your beautiful slide shows and share them with the world with 280slides.
Animoto lets you create your videos less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest.
Animasher allows you to make animations and to animate the pictures.
Voki is a site where you can create your speaking avatar. You can record your voice, or you can use text to speech.
Voicethread is the most famous digital storytelling tool. You add pictures or your videos and let others comment on it.
BubbleJoy allows you to place yourself inside an interactive video greeting card that you can send to others.
I’ve mentioned about BombayTV on my previous blog. It’s a tool for writing subtitles for Bollywood films. You can also record your voice or use text to speech application. There is also BombayTV2 where you can edit different scenes from Bollywood films together and add subtitles to them. ClassikTV allows to put them different scenes together and add music+effects to it. Also, you can have a look at FuteBolTV where you can add subtitles to football matches, you can record your voice as well.
With Animata, you can create animations and backgrounds.
You can easily create a slide show from images anywhere on the web with BigHugeLabs.
BigUniverse is an engaging website. You can read book online or you can create your own and publish it.
BubbleSnaps lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show.
Capzles is a way to combine your videos,photos, blogs and mp3s into a multimedia storyline.
ComicBrush lets you mix artwork and create comics from a fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and photos of yours .
Writeboard is a shareable web based text that shows you every edit and let you go back anytime. It’s a great tool for collaborative storytelling.
With DandeLife, you can keep record of the events of your past and present. You can add videos and pictures. It’s a great timeline and a online journal!
“I know only one thing about the technologies that awaits us in the future:We will find ways to tell stories with them.” Jason Ohlar
Here is the second part of 100 digital storytelling tools series.
DigitalFilms is a website that lets you create your own film for free. You choose your background scene, characters, animated actions, dialogue, introduction and ending credits.
WebSlides let you convert your feeds and bookmarks and present them as live web pages in an interactive slide show. It’s a great way to create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.
Dipity is an online timeline that you can add videos and pictures.
Doink is a great way to create your own stories and share them with others. You can create your own story from scratch or you can use other animated stories to create yours.
Empressr is a media presentation tool. You can add pictures, videos, audios, music and share it with the world.
Jaycut lets you edit your movies online.
Mixbook allows you to create your collaborative photo books and albums.
Fix8 allows you to customize your on-screen virtual appearance in real time using avatar technology. In short, it’s a web cam technology that lets you animate yourself.
With FuzzWich, choose your settings, characters. If you like, you can even customize your character with your face. You drag the character and decide on its move and create your animated film. You can also have a look at FuzzWichFridge where you can play with magnetic words upon a fridge.
GoAnimate is a site where you can create your own animations. You don’t need to have a drawing skill or know about Flash.
With LifeHabs, you can create a sharable interactive timeline of the significant events in your life.
TimeGlider lets you create your web-based timeline software to create and share history and project plans.
PhotoAlbum lets you share and archive photos and videos. You can create your own albums with your photos,videos and add your text.
You can create your timeline with OurStory, you can add photos,videos and write your text.
MyStoryMaker allows you to create your own online story.
With SmileBox, you can create scrapbooks and e-cards with using your pictures,videos, words and music to share it with the world.
You can create easy slide shows on PhotoPeach and tell your story over photos.
You can decorate you pictures, add bubbles, create clips and photo galleries on PhotoShop.
Tikatok is an online platform where you can write your story, illustrate it and publish your original story with others.
Slideoo is the horizontal photo slide show for Flickr and Splashr is a tool for presenting Flickr photos.
SlideStory lets you share your photos with your narrated voice.
With Speechable, you can upload and add speech bubbles to your photos.
You can create comic scripts with Toondo.
Enjoy exploring those tools!
RESOURCE WEBSITES FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
PICTURE AND IMAGE RESOURCES
ONLINE PHOTO EDITORS
MUSIC RESOURCES
- Free Sounds Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound
- Ibiblio.org A conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
- Internet Archivesis building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
- JamStudio Create music beats - free online music mixing & songwriting tool
- Musopen An online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.
- Reverbnation Click to download new music, completely free.
- Soundzabounds
SOUND EFFECTS
- Audio Speak AutoSpeak Library of Sounds features the sounds of race cars, dragsters, motorcycles and other auto-related sounds.
- Find Sounds Search engine for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.
- Nature Sounds Free mp3s downloads of nature sounds.
- Sound Snap Find and share free sound effects and loops.
- Special Operations Military sounds.
SOUND RECORDING SOFTWARE
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