Web Tools for Teachers: Digital Storytelling There are a lot of great digital storytelling tools on the web. The tools below are free, easy to use, and they do what they say they will do: Animoto– Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text. Capzles– Create rich, multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents. Creaza Cartoonist– Cartoonist is an online tool to create cartoons or personal digital stories, consisting of professional backgrounds, characters, props, images and text. Digital Films– Unleash your creativity and make your digital film for free! Dvolver Movie Maker– As it turns out, people have a lot to say, and they like to say it with animated characters. Fakebook– “Fakebook” allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes. Flipbook! fotobabble– The ultimate personal e-card. Go! My Story Maker– Simple digital story maker.
Story Creator Reviews With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments. Story Creator offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures, videos, and experiences with family and friends. Even kids will love this app because it is so easy to use. Added over 16 unique layouts to add photosAdded ability to add stickersAdded unique colors for better drawingsAdded ability to customize thickness of line drawings Creating stories is fun, simple, and easy… even a child can do itSupports gorgeous photos and videosAdd Photos from device, Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, or FacebookCan add text and audio recordings with every pageSupports text highlights – which makes is it easy for kids to learn how to readIt’s super easy to share stories with others and copy stories across devicesShare stories via email with one click
Digital Storytelling: What it is… And… What it is NOT | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog I was lucky to have shared my childhood bedroom for a few years with my grandmother, when she had come to live with us after an illness. At bedtime, she would tell me stories of her parents and three brothers and growing up in East Prussia, fleeing to the West after WW2 and the things that occupied her mind. I was hooked on storytelling. The fascination grew when technology became available and opened up possibilities that were just not possible before. I would give anything to have been able to record my grandmother’s stories and have shared them with my own children years later. Humans are natural storytellers. Maybe as part of a natural process, we tend to stick first to the familiar and “substitute” our task (see Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model). Over the years, I have seen in classrooms and created myself many stories, that are: Examples: Examples: Christopher Columbus creates 21st Century ExplorersListening, Comprehension Podcast Example: Collaborative Storybook: Florida Explorers
YouTube vs. Vimeo, What's the Difference? At TechSmith, our goal is to help our users take advantage of the power of video in their daily jobs. But, making the video is just half of the equation. Choosing where you host your video is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in the planning process. YouTube vs Vimeo Two of the most popular hosting platforms today are YouTube and Vimeo. I work with video everyday in my current role and have faced this decision many times. The Communities The first question I always ask myself before I ever push record on my camera: who is my audience? YouTube’s community is large, with over 1 billion users that watch hundreds of million hours of content each day. On the other hand, Vimeo, to which TechSmith is a preferred partner, has a much smaller community. Membership Vimeo offers three membership options: Basic (free), Plus ($59.95/yr), and Pro ($199/yr); and they each have different levels of storage and support as you can see in the chart below. Updating your Video Copyrighted Material
YouTube vs. Vimeo, What's the Difference? At TechSmith, our goal is to help our users take advantage of the power of video in their daily jobs. But, making the video is just half of the equation. Choosing where you host your video is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in the planning process. Today, we’ll pit YouTube vs Vimeo! YouTube vs Vimeo Two of the most popular hosting platforms today are YouTube and Vimeo. The Communities The first question I always ask myself before I ever push record on my camera: who is my audience? YouTube’s community is large, with over 1 billion users that watch hundreds of millions of hours of content – each day! Membership Vimeo offers four membership options: Basic (free), Plus ($59.95/year), Pro ($199/year), and Business ($599/year); and they each have different levels of storage and support as you can see in the chart below. Alternately, YouTube is completely free with unlimited storage when it comes to hosting. Updating your Video Copyrighted Material Advertising Analytics So…. Related
Adobe Slate – Make your words and images move on the App Store Jamestown Bitmoji Project with @MatthewFarber - Teacher Tech Matthew Farber (author of “Gamify Your Classroom“) shared with me a project his student did using Bitmoji’s to represent the story of Jamestown. This project hits many of the things I value: Integrates technology, not just uses tech.Uses real things that students can relate to.Provides choice.Allows students to be creative.Asks students to communicate their ideas.Lowered fear of risk taking by not having all the elements graded.All students are doing different things.Allow students to figure things out.Values what kids value. The Assignment This is the assignment Matthew posted in his Google Classroom: Storyboarding Jamestown: Storyboards are how movie directors plan before filming scenes. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Pixar is updating Disney’s Pocahontas to be more accurate and you are one of the storyboard artists (artwork is not graded). Your notes will be used to create a storyboard on the events of Jamestown that ultimately led to its success as the first English Colony in the New World!
Adobe Voice – Show your story on the App Store Plan a Better iMovie Trailer with These PDFs Here are a few trailers made by teachers and students. Next to each one is the iMovie trailer template it uses. My Dream Destination - Italy uses the Expedition template.Verbs uses the Superhero template.Properties of Ionic Compounds uses the Adrenaline template.The Giver Book Trailer uses the Adrenaline template.Project-Based Learning uses the Swashbuckler template.Stylus Status uses the Retro template. Because trailers are so short, the information you convey has to be concise. iMovie’s templates do not leave much room for text. iMovie provides an outline and storyboard for each template. To help plan trailers with more original text and shots, I’ve created a fillable PDF for each template. Each PDF is fillable, so you can open in an app like Adobe Reader or Preview and easily add your own text.
Amazon.com: Movo LV10 Battery-Powered Lavalier Clip-on Omnidirectional Condenser TRRS Microphone for Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod and Samsung Galaxy Smartphones, Cameras, Camcorders, Recorders: Musical Instruments Story Wars Guest Blog Daniel Spada: Pro TV Experience Changes the Classroom Experience | WeVideo Blog Prior to becoming a middle school Language Arts Teacher, I had a career in marketing and television production at the WB Network. So when I began teaching, it was only natural for me to include video production in my classes and embed video creating into my curriculum. When I later became a Library Media Specialist, I looked at some of the major curricular units across the school and tried to find ways to use video to make students a more active part of the learning process, while giving them a creative way to demonstrate their learning. Working closely with my fellow teachers, we’ve enhanced numerous lessons and projects using video production. Here is a selection of favorites that might inspire your own efforts: 8th Grade Science – MeiosisTraditionally 8th grade students learn how meiosis is responsible for the characteristics of an organism that are inherited, and are asked to demonstrate their understanding of this process. 7th Grade Social Studies – Human Rights Activist
Some of The Best Digital Storytelling Apps for Elementary Students Creating and sharing digital stories is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy-related activities in class. To this end, we curated for you this collection of some of our favourite apps to engage elementary students in digital storytelling tasks. The apps are simple and easy to use and provide learners with various materials and tools to help them create and enjoy what they create. As always, share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. For more apps for elementary students, check out this page. Links to the features apps are under the visual. 1- Story Dice - ideas for writers ‘Story Dice is a creative writing prompt tool to come up with ideas for plot, character, and setting. 2- Kid in Story Book Maker ‘Create and share customized picture storybooks with photos of your child or others as the main character! 3- Tell About This ‘Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children's thoughts and stories! 6- ChatterPix Kids ‘Grab your camera!
Check this Out! The Next Big Thing for the Chromebook Classroom is Book Creator! The next big thing in the technology infused classrooms is Book Creator for Chrome. As my co-author Tanya Avrith and I get ready to publish The Chromebook Infused Classroom soon, all things point to Book Creator as the game changer in the Chromebook Classroom. You will now be able to embed ANYTHING into the book – making this an amazing learning journal – or the perfect place for students to turn in demonstrations of learning and self reflections. Here a video preview of whats to come. Stay tuned as I will offer tutorial videos on this in the next couple of weeks to get your ready for the next school term. Join our email list to get the updates when this comes out, or sign-up to find out more about The Chromebook Infused Classroom