Digital+Storytelling

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Digital Storytellingtoc

5 Card Flickr
Promote visual thinking by playing [|Five Card Flicker], a Web 2.0 version of the [|Five Card Nancy] game.

PowerPoint Storytelling
media type="custom" key="4042189" By the time they high school, our students are PowerPoint pros. This group project for Spanish class demonstrates how, by losing the bullet points and insisting on a little creativity, the most ubiquitous of student hardware, the camera phone, can be used to create an interesting, grammatically correct story using the slideshow software.

Digital Comic Creation
Bitstrips like these can demonstrate student comprehension of characterization and plot for any piece of literature, as well as reinforcing the visual literacy conventions which underpin comics.

Dial-A-Story Idea

 * Create a line for Dial-A-Story from the schools phone line. Call in after school hours to hear the story.
 * (Ex. Press 1 for the storyline in English, Press 2 for the storyline in Spanish)
 * Invite anyone from the school staff, parents, or students to read.

[|Voicethread]

 * Sample VTs by 1st graders at Monarch Academy, Oakland, CA
 * VoiceThread for Education Wiki A nice collection of K-College VTs and best practices

[|Animoto for Education]

 * Hawaii Blues Animoto Video- Blues collaboration between library and music classes.

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Having students use Microsoft MovieMaker to create "found" [|documentaries] related to subject content which test students' content comprehension, technical skills, and media literacy. This is a "found" documentary produced by one of Wendy's students in a single class period to describe the potential of stem cells and the controversy surrounding research in that area.

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Bring your 1.0 Puppet Show to a global audience. media type="custom" key="3940517" See Lasell College's [|Guidelines for Creating a Digital Story] (PDF) See [|Dean Shareski]'s [|Film School for Video Podcasters] (K12 online presentation) (Note: I prefer the [|Flip Ultra HD] because it takes regular AA batteries. No need to worry about charging .) (Note: I prefer the Flip Mino which recharges via USB so I don't have to buy batteries!)

[|Primary Access Movie Maker]

 * Create digital stories (storyboards, rebus stories, videos and more) using primary source images and video.
 * [|Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach]'s [|Prove It: "Student Creation of Digital Documentaries in History Classrooms: Research Findings"] (K12Online presentation) EXCELLENT EXAMPLE VIDEO AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION.

**[|XtraNormal]**
Students can create text to voice digital animated stories using this web 2.0 tool. Here is an example from one of Karen's 5th grade research classes: media type="youtube" key="03fNAlDsZmU" height="344" width="425"

GIZMOZ
Use an AVATAR from [|GIZMOZ] to create a digital story! were "doctors" who had to diagnose a "patient". || From Explorer Research Project: students created explorer avatars to introduce themselves on an explorer history ning. ||
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 * From Survivor M.D. Project on health and body systems. Students

Don't forget about PowerPoint! Using slides like keyframes can produce some surprisingly sophisticated animtation results. Check out this PowerPoint shared via Kathy Schrock: [|kathyschrock.net/storage/australia_ppt/09artist.ppt]

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PhotoPeach
A student uses a [|PhotoPeach] slideshow to present research about koala bears. (via Melissa Techman, Twitter- [|@mtechman]) media type="custom" key="3990721"

More Resources

 * Digital Storytelling and Podcasting Resources (New Tools Workshop )
 * Charlotte Oglesby's Digitial Storytelling Wiki, with lots of information on fair use
 * [|Porter, B. Digital storytelling across the curriculum. Creative Educator 5.]
 * [|Glass, I. Storytelling. YouTube .]
 * [|Digital Storytelling Resources] (EdTechTeacherNing)

Raw Material
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From Digital to Print Publication

 * [|Mixbook --Create Photo Books Online]