Digital+Storytelling

Digital Storytelling - the archive The project: Create a digital story to share with the class. Criteria: It should be short and interesting to watch. It should have some images, sounds, motion (or at least a couple of these). It should require you to expand your digital skills in some way.

Possibilities: I could be a powerpoint slide show of images from a picture book with narration. It could be a poem with found images edited in iMovie. It could be hand-drawn and scanned images with audio edited Windows Movie Maker It could be created and presented in some kind of online tool (see below) it could be ... media type="youtube" key="x4BK_2VULCU?fs=1" height="385" width="640" Some Resources Digital Story Recipe for making a digital story version of a children's picture book using PowerPoint and narration [|Mike's how-to guide] on 'packaging' your Powerpoint file so the audio and video play on a different computer Center for Digital Storytelling - collection of resources Digital Storytelling - teachingteachers.com 7 things you should know about digital storytelling - Educause Digital Storytelling - from wikibooks Digital Storytelling - from ISTE Teach Digital - a wiki by Wesley Fryer - see also CogDogRoo - 50 tools for digital storytelling (highly recommended) Discovering Digital Stories - youtube video DAOW - Jason Ohler Tools for TEKS - digital storytelling in the classroom How do I come up with a story idea? - from CogDogRoo MapSkip makes the world a canvas for our stories and photos. - neat web tool. Ira Glass on Storytelling - youtube video - Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story. Open Thinking wiki ( Dr. Alec Couros) - great collection of digital storytelling resources http://learningthroughmuseums.wikispaces.com/Digital+Stories - great collection of tools from Art Institute of Chicago http://www.youtube.com/searchstories - telling a story through google searches - tool for making movies of search screens http://www.zooburst.com/ - make your own digital pop-up books http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/oneminutemovies/howto/ - how to make a one minute movie from the BBC http://www.kerpoof.com/ - stock cartoon characters w/ bubbles - includes teacher lesson plans http://edu.glogster.com/ - teacher version of popular poster maker http://blabberize.com/ - talking photos - crude but fun. http://animoto.com/ - instant slide show from uploaded photos http://www.xtranormal.com/ - enter text to make a movie. pick shots, characters ... http://memoov.com/ - online animation studio, scenes, characters ...  http://prezi.com/ - zooming presentation tool http://goanimate.com/ - create animated cartoons http://storybird.com/ - collaborative short visual stories