Mobisode. Teaching Students to Be Multimedia Storytellers. 6.29.11 | We wanted to point Spotlight readers to a new, powerful collection on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is website.
Reading and Writing Transmedia is curated by Laura Fleming, a library media specialist in River Edge, N.J., who blogs regularly about the connection between transmedia and education. One of our earlier stories, “The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative,” explains how digital texts combine images, words and sounds. Transmedia storytelling takes this even further: multi-layered stories are told and built upon across multiple media platforms, often by many participants. Fleming says today’s reading and writing instruction must include teaching students to be collaborative storytellers. In an introductory post on her own blog, she quotes game designer Alex Fleetwood, who says today’s young writers should have an understanding of platforms, collaboration and writing for interaction. 100 Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves Natives, Part 4. “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
Robert McKee Here is the last part of my series with 25 digital storytelling tools. LittleBirdTales – www.littlebirdtales.com - is a site where you can upload your drawings and record your voice for each picture to create your story. Vocaroo – vocaroo.com - lets you record our voice and send it to other via email or you can get the embed code and put it on your website.
CrazyTalk - -let you make your pictures talk.