Digital+Storytelling+Resources

=Digital Storytelling Resources: (Kelly)= On this page you will find resources for creating digitalstories, helpful links to tutorials, and additional information. (Kelly)

=Tutorials: (Kelly)= [|I Movie tutorial]- I can't check this out but maybe someone else may be able to! (Kelly)

There is a wealth of information in this book from research to projects to tips. (Kelly) = = =Sites for Creating Digital Stories (Kelly)=

[|Little Bird Tales] (I have not used this site but it was designed with children in mind) Add your comments if you use it! (Kelly)

50+ Ways to Tell a Digital Story - a great wiki that shows many, many ways to create a digital story. For each type of digital story there is an example of a finished story so you can see what your story could look like using each tool. (Sara)

[|GoAnimate] - a website for students to use to create digital stories. Students can create their own animated characters for their story. (Sara)

 [|Make Belief Comix] - a webiste that allows you to create your own comic strips. It is very simple. First you choose your character, your scene, and add thought or talking bubbles. There is a teachers resource page with many ways to use comic strips such as introducing vocab and teaching social skills. (Sara)

 [|Glogster] - a website to use to make an electronic poster where students can "pin" or "post" images, words, quotes to show their learning or share something about themselves. Instead of making posters like we used to as a visual for, say book reports as an example, students can create a glogster. (Sara)

 [|Blabberize] - A website where you choose/unload an image and then you are able to insert a talking mouth and record a message. You can make any image come to life! (Sara)

[|Tagxedo] - a website where students can create a word "cloud" or picture. Students can choose from animals, food, continents, famous people, and other objects to fill with words. Students can use this site to create a word cloud about themselves at the beginning of the year or to share what they learned with key vocabulary point during a unit of study. (Sara)

[|Storybird] - an interactive website where adults and children can create their own digital books for others to share. When creating a book, you can choose your artwork provided by different artists and the theme for your book. Then you add the images and type your own text onto each page. Once a book is finished you can view it on your computer, email it to others, and order a published paper copy of your book. (Sara)

[|VoiceThread] - a website where you can upload images and record "comments" to narrate your images. It is very simple and others can share their comments for your work right into the project through the website. Great for positive feedback for students! (Sara)

=Examples of Digital Stories: (Kelly)=

[|Monarch Butterfly Stages]- a video is available for each stage as well as links to other information (Kelly)

Digital Stories to Be Told variety of already made digital stories fro Room To Read about people from all over the world. (Mary Ellen)

=Converting YouTube videos into FREE Mp3s! (Meghan)=

This site allows you to find any video/song off youtube and it converts it into an FREE Mp3 with a click of a button. I used it several times to create my digital stories :) (Meghan)

=Rubrics for Digital Storytelling= Digital Storytelling 101: Rubrics and Scoreboards tips and examples of how to assess students' digital stories. (Mary Ellen)