Digital Directors Guild- assists educators with their digital storytelling projects
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom- from Microsoft Education
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators- 120 page pamphlet (download) written by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)
Making Stopmotion Movies- information on how to create stopmotion and claymation movies
Tech4Learning Blog- lots of wonderful posts regarding ways to tell stories, including claymation
Tech4Learning Blog- lots of wonderful posts regarding ways to tell stories, including claymation
Aniboom- animation studio
Animoto- create video slide shows
Big Universe- for younger children
Chogger- create comics
ClassikTV- create a movie by adding subtitles to old movie scenes
Creaza- suite of creative tools, including cartoonist, movie editor, audio editor and mindmaps
DigiTales- create 3-5 minute stories from these types: living memories, beyond words, itza wrap
Do Ink- create Flash-style animations using a "simple and friendly vector editor
Domo Animate- free animation website offers characters with dialogue, backdrops and special effects
Glogster- drag and drop text, images, audio, video drawings and more; premium edition has no ads
Google Search Stories- uses YouTube, so if your school blocks it you're out of luck
Juxio- interactive posters for the classroom
Kerpoof- make movies, cards, drawings,pictures, tell stories; for grades K-8; site also has lesson plans and teacher tools.
Lightning Bug -assists students in writing a story from finding an idea to finishing the story
Little Bird Tales- for very young children
My eBook- create novels, comics, magazines, brochures
My Story Maker- for younger kids; interactive digital story creator
Myths and Legends- online digital storytelling site
Our Story- create a collaborative timeline
PicLits- students are given a picture with a list of keywords to inspire them to write a story about that picture
Picture Book Maker- create an online children's book
Pinball- helps students get started with ideas which are bounced around
Projeqt- visual storytelling
Shiddoni- create an imaginary world with animals
Simplebooklet- create online newsletters, presentations (education version)
Smilebox- mix photos, videos and music into a multimedia presentation
Stage'd- create animated comics
Storybird- "short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read and print
Storyboard Template-choice of different templates
ThumbScribes- online collaboration of poems, short stories, fiction, novellas
Tikatok- for younger children
Voice Thread- group conversations around images, documents, videos; Voice Thread in the Classroom.
Xtranormal-create online movies using their characters who speak what you write for them; $$
ZooBurst-create a 3D pop-up book
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Frameographer - www.studioneat.com is a great iPad/iPod/iPhone app to create stop motion digital stories. Started messing around with it this week and I'm loving the ease of use of it so far.
ReplyDeleteHere's 2 other links that might be helpful too:
ReplyDeletehttp://web.tech4learning.com/digital-storytelling-resource-kit
http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/main/articles_ds
Thanks, Tom. I've edited my title to say "60 Sites".
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful list of tools! Also check out GoAnimate4Schools. EXTREMELY easy to use! Can get a free teacher license with limitations or full school district at a cost. Very intuitive. Check it out!
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't seen Tech4Learnings Frames this is another extremely simple tool to use. My special ed kids pick it up right away. Here are some samples my students have made and some resources that I share on my wiki.
http://clay4ed.shoptech4learning.com/html/index.html
https://trugertechtalk.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling+Basics
Keep up the good work!