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Storybird - Artful Storytelling. My StoryMaker® at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. My Storymaker® was named one of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association.

my StoryMaker® at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

People worldwide enjoy my StoryMaker®. Find out what all the fun is about! You have the power to decide -- choosing characters, taking them on adventures and creating your very own story along the way. my StoryMaker® lets you control characters and objects -- and it creates sentences for you! Or, you can enter your own words. Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. > Play my StoryMaker® Click here for HELP writing, printing and sharing stories. Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Storytelling Techniques, Hear a Story, Read Stories, Audio Stories, Find Tellers, How to Tell A Story - Stories. Digital Storytelling Evaluation Rubrics for Teachers. Are you integrating digital storytelling in your course with your students ?

Digital Storytelling Evaluation Rubrics for Teachers

Are you looking for a carefully crafted rubric to help you guide your digital storytelling activities ? Well you don't have to go far, the answers are right below these couple of lines. This is probably the first time I am publishing a rubric on evaluating digital storytelling. I have previously featured several rubrics that are particularly technology focused and all are geared towards helping teachers better integrate technology into their teaching. Today and thanks to KSBE, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is introducing you to excellent digital storytelling rubrics. 1- Digital Storytelling Evaluation Rubric ( below is just a snapshot of part of this rubric ) Download it Here. 8 Steps To Great Digital Storytelling.

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8 Steps To Great Digital Storytelling

(Updated 3/14/2014) Stories bring us together, encourage us to understand and empathize, and help us to communicate. Long before paper and books were common and affordable, information passed from generation to generation through this oral tradition of storytelling. Consider Digital Storytelling as the 21st Century version of the age-old art of storytelling with a twist: digital tools now make it possible for anyone to create a story and share it with the world. WHY Digital Storytelling? Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers.

Movies, created over a century ago, represent the beginning of digital storytelling. 8 Steps to Great Digital Stories Great digital stories: Are personalBegin with the story/scriptAre conciseUse readily-available source materialsInclude universal story elementsInvolve collaboration at a variety of levels 1. Microsoft Word - WebQuest Rubric.doc - wqrubric.pdf. Storytelling Festival Audio Archive - Center for Children's Books. Storytelling Audio Audio files of past Center for Children's Books storytelling festivals are available.

Storytelling Festival Audio Archive - Center for Children's Books

We hope you enjoy listening. The files are in MP3 format with the exception of the 2003 recordings which are RAM and will require Real Player. Storytelling Festival 2013 Video highlights from the 2013 festival are coming soon. Click this link for complete audio for the entire festival. Storytelling Festival 2012 Video highlights from the 2012 festival are available below. 2011 Storytelling Festival. Audio Stories, Storytelling, Audio Fiction : The Moonlit Road.com. Virginia devil folktale about a young man forced to spend the night in a terrifying house, with a terrifying family.

Audio Stories, Storytelling, Audio Fiction : The Moonlit Road.com

But are they really as evil as the townfolk say? Written by Kyle Moore. NEW: Serena Mott, a radio major at Nova Scotia Community College, has created an audio version of this story: You wanna know about that place up there? Heh, yeah, she sure looks like hell, don’t she? Let me tell you; you should see her at night. That’s the ol’ Jessup place, that is. See, the Jessups aren’t welcome most places ’round here. They got a reputation. Most the time, folks just carry on like they don’t exist. And ain’t no one seen a Jessup attend a church here ever, and that has folks waggin’ their tongues about worshippin’ the devil or practicin’ witchcraft. Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Story, Storytelling Techniques, Hear a Story, Read Stories, Audio Stories, Find Tellers, How to Tell A Story - Stories. Digital Storytelling. Comic Master. ZooBurst.

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