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36 Digital Storytelling Sites and Apps From edshelf

36 Digital Storytelling Sites and Apps From edshelf
by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Once upon a time, there was a teacher looking for ways to help her students tell a story. She wanted to give them a variety of tools from which to construct their stories. At their school were computer labs, iPad carts, and a BYOD policy. With all those options, she knew there had to be more than just Microsoft Word. Then she found K-12 technology specialist David Kapuler‘s collection of digital storytelling sites & apps. And they all lived happily ever after. What apps do you use for creating and telling digital stories? 36 Digital Storytelling Sites and Apps From edshelf Image attribution flickr users nmc-campus and mikegrenville Related:  Storytelling&Visualization

Visual Storytelling 101 - SlideShare 3D The SlideShare 3D tool transforms your presention slides into beautiful touch-enabled 3D slideshows written in pure HTML and CSS3. The presentations will work on all modern browsers including Android or the mobile Safari on your iPad and iPhone. Running the presentation Desktop users may use the regular arrow keys or the mousewheel to move between slides. Press the Escape key to enter the slide overview mode. The transformed SlideShare deck is touch-enabled and thus you can use gestures like swipe or pinch to navigate through the slides on your touchscreen mobile phone or tablet. Behind the scenes Internally, the tool uses SlideShare's oEmbed endpoint to get the details of the requested presentation which are then transformed into a 3D slideshow using the reveal.js library.

Pinwords 13 Great Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad Stories have a wide range of advantages for students. They help them experience the world, introduce them to other cultures and modes of life, expand their imaginative powers, contextualize their learning, and also individualize it. Teaching stories has never been as easier as it is now. Technology provided us with a gamut of free tools to create our own stories . We have already posted a very popular article about the best storytelling web services for teachers , these are basically web based tools but there are also useful apps that work on iDevices and have the same features as the web based ones. Below is a list of some great digital storytelling apps for iPad. 1- StoryPatch " Story Patch, a beautiful new application for the iPad that children can use to create their own picture books. 2- Story Wheel " “Story Wheel” is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities. " This app is as fun as your own creativity. 4- Toonastic 5- Comic Creator 6- Photo Comic 8- Story Kit

Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards — automagically NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is a week away! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and grab your tickets while they last. Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically create a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Amazon Studios released Storyteller today to allow writers and filmmakers to quickly, easily, and cheaply storyboard their scripts. And it can be used for much, much more than just scripts. “We’ve found that many writers want to see their story up on its feet in visual form but find it harder than it should be to create a storyboard,” Roy Price, Amazon’s director of Studios said in a statement. You start by uploading a script to Amazon Studios — or by playing with one that’s already there. Above: You can choose shot framing Image Credit: John Koetsier You need a visual story? Who knows — perhaps your script will too.

Photovisi - Photo Collage Maker 8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations A good public speaker takes their audience on a journey, leaving them feeling inspired and motivated. But structuring your speech to get your ideas across and keep your audience engaged all the way through is tricky. Try these eight storytelling techniques for a presentation that wows. You’re doing a presentation, so you start with the facts you want to get across. Wrong! Humans are hardwired for stories. Deliver a presentation that captures the hearts and heads of your audience by stealing one of these classic storytelling techniques. 1. The monomyth (also called the hero’s journey), is a story structure that is found in many folk tales, myths and religious writings from around the world. In a monomyth, the hero is called to leave their home and sets out on a difficult journey. After overcoming a great trial, they return home with a reward or newfound wisdom – something which will help their community. Good for: See also: The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

StoryToolz : Resources for Authors Free Online Collage Maker Ribbet is a fully featured online photo editor and collage maker. With nothing to download or install, you'll be creating your collage in just a few moments by clicking Create Collage above. Ribbet lets you create collages directly from your Facebook, Flickr and Google Photos, making collage building a dream. Ribbet is inspired by the platform which made Picnik great. Laying out your photos is just the beginning! Ribbet is faster than any other collage maker for these awesome reasons: The 8 Steps of A Great Digital Storytelling Process March , 2014 Integrating digital storytelling requires more than just knowledge of the web tools to use for creating and sharing digital stories, the process if much more important. Helping kids and students learn through the use of digital storytelling entails the implementation of a well-paced plan that clearly outlines both the objectives and expectations behind this integration. Samantha Morra (Google certified teacher) has this wonderful visual on the process of digital storytelling. This process comprises 8 steps : Come with an ideaResearch/explore and learnWrite/ScriptStoryboard/PlanGather/create images, gather/create audio, gather create video.Put it all togetherShareFeedback and reflect If you are looking for some web tools for teaching digital storytelling, I would recommend this page.

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