Top Ways for Kids to Tell Digital Stories
Top Ways for Kids to Tell Digital Stories When students want to tell a story digitally, or present information they know about, there are several excellent tech tools they can use. You may recall I compiled a List of Digital Storytelling Tools, which brought together links to the actual tools, links to my example of some tools, links to my whole reviews of other digital storytelling tools, and links to articles about digital storytelling in general. In Creating Digital Stories with iPad, I focused on iPad tools only and brought together apps I’d reviewed, and a list of other possible apps. Recently I was asked to choose a few of my favourite ways for kids to make a digital story or presentation of some kind. Today I’ve listed my personal favourites here so you don’t have to wade through a huge list if you don’t want to. Story With/without Pictures Storybird - web-based. Camera and an image editor - various. Pages - Software for Mac. Strip Designer - iOS app. We Publish - iOS app. Audio
Little Bird Tales: Free Digital Storytelling, Presentations and Lessons with Audio for Kids
Storyspace 3: Space and Time, more from the Map view – The Eclectic Light Company
Much of the time, tutorials and demonstrations of sophisticated apps get bogged down in detail, and make the app look difficult to use. Very capable, yes, but equally daunting to the inexperienced user. This short and very simple tutorial should show you how easy it is to create visually attractive hypertext using Storyspace 3 – or beautiful notes using Tinderbox 6, as it transfers across directly too. When I am writing articles for my blog, I am constantly thinking in terms of hypertext, and how I could better express my stories using Storyspace. My first task was to get a better understanding of the Map view and its co-ordinate system. Any writing space can also reveal its location in the Map view by exposing the $Xpos and $Ypos attributes. Exploring the Map view using these basic tools shows that, by default, the top left corner is around (-23, -32.5), and the bottom right is around (36, 50). Adjust the window size iteratively until you are happy. Here is my example file: Bonington
A List of Digital Storytelling Tools
A List of Digital Storytelling Tools by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com Because I’m trying to make it easier for readers to find themed posts in one place, I’ve been using Listly to gather them together. I’ll be regularly updating this post via Listly so go ahead and bookmark it/share it if you want to find these articles in one place. You’ll find some doubling up with my list, Creating with Kids and iPad Apps.
Using non-linear stories to gamify your books
Idea: make use of hyperlinks in Book Creator and see students’ imaginations come to the fore when they create interactive books. Adam Foster is an experienced Primary School Teacher who teaches across Key Stage 1 and 2, as well as co-ordinating ICT at a Preparatory School in Wolverhampton, UK. He has been using iPads in his teaching for the past 4 years and also supports schools around the UK and Europe with integrating mobile technology into the curriculum. Book Creator was one of the first apps we installed on our school iPads in 2011 and we have gone on to use it across the whole of Key Stage 1 and 2. Interactive adventure stories This term I have been working on a project with Year 6 to create interactive adventure stories using Book Creator. The objective was two-fold, firstly to develop literacy skills, but also as an activity linked with the World War 1 100 Years Week that the school recently undertook. Let the reader choose their path What we’re doing next iPad Teacher Guide
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator
Lesson Plans | TELL A VISUAL NARRATIVE STORY WITH EDUCREATIONS
Educreations is an app that turns the iPad into a recordable, interactive whiteboard for creating Khan’s Academy-style tutorials, lessons, or stories. It’s both a teaching and learning tool, allowing users to create lessons and browse what others have created. It’s very simple to use and intuitive, requiring very little time to learn, and created videos can be used by anyone via iPad or computer. Educreations can be used either as a pedagogical tool in flipped or distance-learning classrooms (or just as supplementary instruction) or as a platform for student exhibition, allowing students to demonstrate learning, craft presentations, and teach each other. Using Educreations, which enables students to narrate scripts, illustrate them, and share them with others, students become digital storytellers and examine writing through a new lens. Step 1: Assign students a particular style of narration. Step 2: Students create scripts or outlines. Step 4: Exhibit some student creations. Writing 1. 2.
L’uso della timeline nella didattica: ambiti di applicazione, caratteristiche e funzionalità – BRICKS
Timeline come strumento didattico La timeline rappresenta uno strumento immediato ed efficace per visualizzare in forma grafica una serie di eventi distribuiti in successione cronologica su un determinato asse virtuale, variamente definito in scansioni temporali. Il suo utilizzo sta diventando una prassi sempre più diffusa, come dimostra il numero crescente di web application disponibili in rete e, contestualmente, l’aumento della percezione delle sue potenzialità in ambito educativo. È in grado, infatti, di fornire una visione d’insieme di un argomento di studio e di proporre un focus tematico su specifici segmenti temporali, risultando pertanto funzionale all’attività didattica. Diversamente dalla mappa mentale, in cui i concetti correlati si diramano da un’idea centrale, nella timeline la successione degli eventi è cronologica, senza quindi alcun tipo di gerarchia né rapporti di connessione e derivazione diretta tra i vari punti. Come creare una timeline: alcuni suggerimenti 1. 2.
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. StoryBird - storybird.com - is a collaborative storytelling tool. You can create your own comic on Mashon – www.mashon.com/spore/creator - by adding text, pictures, videos and audio. ComicBrush – www.comicbrush.com - lets you create your own comics by using your drawing, photos and ready to use artwork. Vuvox – www.vuvox.com - is a site where you can mix, create and blend your videos, photos and music into rich personal expressions. Enjoy!
