Digital Storytelling

across the CurriculumWeb 2.0 Tools

Latasha Smart, M.Ed.Technology Master Teacher

North District Middle School

Hampton School District #1

What is Digital Storytelling

Sharing stories through words, pictures, video,

and audio

Why Digital Story Telling

Tell me and I forget

Teach me and I remember

Involve me and I learn

Benjamin Franklin

Why Digital Story Telling

We Learn . . .

10% of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR

30% of what we SEE

40% of what we SEE and HEAR

70% of what we DISCUSS with others

80% of what we EXPERIENCE personally

95% of what we TEACH someone else

William Glasser

How is it Different

Traditional Report

Research

Write

Submit

Digital Storytelling

Research

Write

Read, collect images

Read, re-read, record

Review, enhance

Publish, present

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Benefits of Digital Storytelling

• Develops writing and reading skills• Develops problem-solving skills• Develops visual literacy skills• Develops technology skills• Foster presentation skills• Integrates research skills• Outlet for creativity enhancement

and personal expression

Elements of a Digital Story

• Purpose of the story• Narrator’s point of view• Choice of content• Quality of the images• Voice over narration• Creation of the story

Across the Curriculum Ideas

Language ArtsAll About MeTell a TaleDigital Book ReportDigital Diary

Social StudiesFamily HistoryIntergenerational StorytellingCommunity StoriesGoing back in timeVirtual travels

Fine ArtsCreative writing, poetry, music videos

TechnologyGreen screen

BusinessCompany stories-founder, employees, customersProduct profilesCommunity service

ScienceHow To . . .Creature Features

Assessing Digital Storytelling

Rubrics! Rubrics! Rubrics!

Rubistar

Digitales

Copyright,CreativeCommons,andFairUse

Free MusicBeat Lab

Sound Bible

Freeplaymusic

Free ImagesImage Base

iClipart

Teacher Tap

Copyright and Fair use Guidelines for Teachers

Authoring Tools

• PictLits• Zoobursts• Animoto• Kerpoof• Voki• Storybird• Blabberize• Graphic Novel Creator• Tar Heel Reader

• Voicethread• Glogster• Toon Doo• Domo Animate• Storyjumper• Go Animate• Smories

PictLits

 PictLits is a creative writing site.The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Examples

Adaptation

Music

Zooburst

 Zooburst is a web-based application that allows users to create 3-D popup books.

Examples

5 Senses

Parts of a Story

Ecology

KerpoofKerpoof is a website where

students can partake in many activities, including: spell a picture, make a movie, make a card, make a picture, and tell a story. Using "tell a story" students can use pre-made pictures to write and illustrate their own book. There are 6 themes to choose from: inventions, rock star, fantasy, pirates, winter tales and aliens. 

Examples

The Wonderful Kingdom

The legend of Andrew Jackson

Domo Animate

Domo Animate is a free animation tool created for educators. Domo Animate allows users to build up a story over up to 11 scenes, including using music, sound effects and visual effects. Characters and scenes are deliberately pupil-friendly and there is no access to inappropriate content.

Example

Little Shiny Girl

Pluto

Voicethread

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Examples

An Egg-cellent Experiment

Book Review

GlogsterGlogster allows you to

create media rich posters with images, video, audio (uploaded or recorded) and apply a wide range of visual effects- size, rotation, scaling, as well as for text. Web links can be added for any item. Any embedded media can be viewed via a built in player.

ExamplesFrog Dissection

Atomic Bomb

ToonDoo

 ToonDoo is a free and fast comic strip creator

Examples

Mean Teacher

Photosynthesis

AnimotoAnimoto allows users to create

multimedia slideshows using text, images, music, and/or short (10-second) video clips.  Educators can register to get a code which allows numerous full-length video accounts to be created for free.  While there is no audio recording component currently available in Animoto for voice narration, users can use text slides to compliment images or video to create the digital narrative.  Any sound on a video clip can also be brought in to the Animoto.

ExamplesPhotosynthesis

Turns

VokiVoki is a free service that

allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Voki is being used by teachers in many creative ways across the curriculum to both enhance language skills as well as to offer students non-textual ways of taking in information.

ExamplesDiary of a Wimpy Kid

Famous People

StoryjumperStoryjumper is a web-based

tool that lets students create an online book with background scenes, props and characters, uploaded images, and text on digital pages.  There is a free education version that allows teachers to create student accounts.  Finished stories are viewed on the computer and pages can be virtually ‘flipped’ beautifully, but can also be printed off on paper.    Users have the option to purchase bound, hard-copy print versions of stories for $25-$30 USD which can be mailed to them.

ExamplesA to Z Read with Me

The Life of Spartan

StorybirdStorybird provides beautiful

collections of artwork from a variety of artists, to arrange and use as inspiration for a story.  Users can add or remove pages, arrange artwork on the pages, and add text.  Finished stories are displayed beautifully on the screen.  While not as much control over layout as Storyjumper, this is a quick and easy way to generate text based on beautiful images.

ExamplesMy Goals for Sixth Grade

Failure Is Not An Option 

Go Animate

GoAnimate For Schools is an easy-to-use, yet powerful cartoon movie editing software full of great characters and scenes and the ability for students to give their characters actions and dialogue.  That dialogue can be given in text speech bubbles or even recorded by the user through the microphone.

ExamplesThinking Cap

Biography

BlabberizeBlabberize is easy, quick

way for kids to write for an authentic audience. It allows you to "speak" through a picture by recording your voice and moving the mouth on the face of the picture you have chosen. You need to write a script of some sort first, and then read it aloud, so it's another fun way to use literacy skills online.

Examples

Tar Heel ReaderDeveloped at the University

of North Carolina Chapel Hill, this tool allows creation of a captioned slide show for beginning readers, with features designed for accessibility (text to speech, reader selected font and background colors) and offers downloads of stories in PowerPoint, Flash, and Impress Format.

ExamplesDesert Animals

The Sad Story of Growly the Tiger

Smories

Smories is a video-blog, or "vlog", based website where many young authors can be viewed reading both unpublished and published stories for all the world to see! 

ExamplesA Shell Whose Snail Has Gone

Do teachers know everything?

Graphic Novel Creator

• http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/