10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class

Digital storytelling is simply using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are many different ways to do this – from making movies, recording voices, creating animations or electronic books. In schools they can help to take a task that might be seen as mundane – write a report, write a story, explain a process, describe an experiment – and turn it into something a whole lot more interesting. There are a great many tools out there that could be used for digital storytelling. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. For more help and information on Digital Storytelling, take a look at this site from the University of Houston and for more tools you really need to take a look at Alan Levine (CogDogRoo) 50 web2.0 Ways to tell a Story wiki. Got any favourites?

Blog | Archive | Digital Storytelling After teaching a 1:1 Toolkit class for incoming Middle Schoolers tothe 1:1 laptop environment this past quarter, I am currently teaching a Media Basics course for sixth graders. I am using a school blog to document the class (among others), showcase student work, share resources and give written step-by-step directions for projects we are currently working on. My colleague Jennifer Kagohara, who is also teaching a section of the same Media Basics course, and I have narrowed the course down to an introduction to the following three tools (Photoshop, Garageband and iMovie) in order to prepare students to create different media for future projects. We are paying special attention to media literacy, digital citizenship as well as communication and collaboration. In addition, students are practicing the following workflow and learnflow: As an example, I wanted to share the following Photoshop projects with Langwitches’ readers. Image licensed under Creative Commons by Enokson- Image by Maya