Digital storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Web 2.0 tools and iPad and tablet apps to engage your

students

Win Biernacki@winbiernackiwin.biernacki@gmail.comICEChip MiniCon 3/29/2014

http://goo.gl/FOn15h

Everyone has a story...

Everyone has many powerful stories to tell and

people who believe they are mundane,

uninteresting, or unmemorable possess beneath

this mask a vivid, complex, and rich body of stories

just waiting to be told. "

-Center for Digital Storytellinghttp://storycenter.org/

“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost or won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”

Harold Clarke Goddard

Why tell stories?

http://www.milamberblog.com/remember-strategic-stories-are-a-powerful-learning-tool/storytelling-cartoon/

“Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories.”

The University of Houston

Dept. of Education

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Website

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=29

What is Digital Storytelling?

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make the facts live.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Why Digital Storytelling?

• To promote:o literacyo creativityo collaborationo confidence

• To engage

• To share

Why DIGITAL Storytelling?

• Biographies/Autobiographies

• Historical events

• Field trips - real or virtual

• Science Fair

• Book reports/book trailers

• Language Arts - Poetry, short stories

• Mystery videos

• Math concepts

• etc., etc.

Digital Storytelling Ideas

• purpose

• ease of use

• functionality

• share-ability

Choosing a DS tool

Paper slide videos

PhotoStory (Microsoft - no longer supported)

PowerPoint, Prezi

Audacity (audio only)

In Three Words

Easy tech; good results and FREE

Sample:

How-to: http://ramblingsofagiftedclass.wikispaces.com/Paper+Slide+Project

Paper slide video

Sample:

In 3 Words...

• Have a plan

• Research, images (limit images)

• If collaborating, decide who has what role

• Write a storyboard

• Give credit (understand copyright)

• Practice, practice, practice BEFORE filming

• Use a tripod when filming

If your students use a video tool...

Make Beliefs Comix: free (iPad also)

Kidblog: basic, free (iPad app also)

iMovie: (Mac $14.99 or iPad $4.99)

Voicethread: $15/mo + (5 free on iPad)

Glogster*: starts @ $39/yr

Animoto*: $35/yr pers; free classrm acct; iPad view app

ZooBurst*: (free basic, classroom and school licenses avail.) - create 3D pop-up books via website

*iPad apps allow you to view only

Web 2.0 Tools

• FREE

• uses Google Earth and Google Maps to provide timeline and location.

• voice over and video (15 sec.) can be added

• can embed in class or school website/blog/wiki• <iframe frameborder='0' height='404' scrolling='no' src='http://www.meograph.com/embed/ahughes17/15303/causes-of-the-civil-

war' width='560'></iframe>

Meograph

• on the web or as an app

• uses artwork to inspire writing

• can set up classes, students

• no voiceover

• can order pdf or hardcover booksSample: http://storybird.com/explore/

Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2ZCtw18wo

Sample:

Tutorial:

• Use single picture, head shot, face forward

• Great for biographies

• Educator account - can save, email, embed link

• Online; ed accounts avail

• Can upload images and video

• Voiceover enabled. Use for:o Oral reportso Math conceptso Classroom/teacher introductionso Language Arts: poetry, short stories

• Can email link, share via acct., embed

Sample Voicethread:

https://voicethread.com/?#q.b1391.i15630

Tutorial:

PhotoStage Slideshow

Tutorial:

Downloadable Tools

iMovie

Windows Live MovieMaker

Downloadable Tools

Puppetpals HD free, in-app purch, all-access = $4.99

Toontastic starter ed. free; full Teacher’s edition, $9.99

iPad apps - Cartoons

• Storehouse images, text, video o uses: biography, field trips, school evento 50 photo/video limit; video 30 sec.o share: link via email

• Tell About This ($2.99 paid version also; 50% vol. disc. - more prompts, unlimited stories, unlimited students)o picture story prompts or create your owno share video via email

• Shadow Puppet very easy to use; camera roll images, your voice. Best shared on small screen; can email

iPad apps - FREE

Drawp (in-app purch. $.99-$4.99) - kids safely send digital messages to family.

Tellagami (in-app purchases also) - user-designed avatar coupled with background and voice to create a ‘gami’. Share via email, facebook, twitter, iMessage

Draw Your Stories (1 free story, 2 require sharing, $.99 ea add’l) - narrated stories where students complete the illustrations (with help)

ZooBurst (free basic, classroom and school licenses avail.) - create 3D pop-up books via website, access via iPad app

iPad apps - FREE

Make Beliefs Comix -

Eng, Span, French, German, Ital., Portugese & Latin

iPad apps - FREE - Multilingual

• Amazing App Stories - 30 minutes to add 200-800 words to an EXISTING story. You pick the genre

• Use for: writing, writing prompts

• Note: if teacher creates 1st paragraph, you can continue to see the story; otherwise, no ability to save.

iPad apps - FREE - Collaborative

Hideout:

BYU developed. Sounds ‘ap’, ‘en’, ‘it’, ‘op’, ‘ag’, and ‘et’. Student create words, turned into stories.

iPad apps - FREE - Interactive

• Easy Studio-Animate - $3.99. Animated video creation

• Toonia Storymaker - $2.99, ages 4-10. Characters and settings built in. Story starters or write own.

• Book Creator ($4.99, vol pricing avail.) Free version avail. (one book)

• Sago Mini Doodlecast ($2.99) ages 2-6. Whiteboard; draw and record voice, drawing prompts

iPad Apps - PAID but worth checking out...

• Shutterfly - free. Free webinar April 7th at 3:00 pm. http://www.instantpresenter.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC59D781824C

iPad Apps

• Digital Story Cubes (free)

• Story Dice (free)

• Writing Challenge for Kids ($.99) (iOS also)

• Big Nate: Comix by U! ($2.99)

• Flipbook Creator: Love Memories (free)

• Educational Comic Creator (free)

Android apps

• Animoto

• Photo Stage slideshow

• Toontastic Jr. Pirates

• Tellagami

• Haiku Deck (iOS also)

Android apps (cont’d)

Kathy Schrock (CCSS, Rubrics)

http://www.schrockguide.net/digital-storytelling.html

Bernajean Porter: Digitales http://www.digitales.us/

Common Sense Media (app and tools ratings, etc.)

www.commonsensemedia.org

iPad Apps for School, Richard Byrne

ipadapps4school.com

50+ Ways to Tell a Story Online

http://50ways.wikispaces.com/

Resources

YouTube

TeacherTube

SchoolTube

Vimeo

Class blog, class wiki, school blog, school website

Where to publish:

See my Padlet wall:

http://padlet.com/wall/music4free/edit

Where to find sound effects:

See my Padlet wall:

http://padlet.com/wall/freeimages

Where to find free images:

In the early 20th century, American writer Ernest

Hemingway made a bet with a friend who told him he

couldn’t write a story in under ten words. It’s

impossible, they said. Not one to give in, he came

back with this one-line tale.

“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”

http://fromlittlethings.co/2013/02/11/why-storytelling-matters/

How many words make a story?

I hope you found today’s session helpful.

http://goo.gl/FOn15hFeel free to contact me:

@winbiernacki

win.biernacki@gmail.com

Thank you!