Digital Storytelling
Web 2.0 tools and iPad and tablet apps to engage your
students
Win [email protected]@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
• 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
• 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:
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
Thank you!