Showing posts with label digital storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital storytelling. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2014

New to This Blog? Here Are the Top 10 Posts So Far.......

If this is the first time you our visiting the blog, welcome. My name is Julie Greller, and I'm a media specialist for grades 7-12 in a New Jersey public school. I'm always trying to find great free resources for K-12 teachers, and keep an especially large collection for my fellow school-librarians/media specialist. (Check out the tab at the top) Below you will find a list of the top ten posts I have made since I started the blog here three years ago. Feel free to drop me an email if you are looking for specific resources you don't see here. My email is cybrarian77 AT gmail DOT com.


1. 39 Sites For Using iPad in the Classroom

2. 35 Social Networking Programs Other Than Facebook and Twitter

3. 10 Places to Find Back to School Templates

4. 64 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information

5. 10 Resources for Book Report Templates

6. 24 Places to Find Bulletin Board Display Ideas

7. Why Not Use Political Cartoons in Your Teaching? Here Are 15 Places to Find Them

8. Thousands of Science Fair Project Ideas! Find Them on These 25 Web Sites

9. 44 Things That Are All About Dewey (The Dewey Decimal System, That Is)

10. Let's Teach Our Children About Copyright: 15 Sites Which Can Assist You





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Monday, August 1, 2011

65 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information


Information
Center for Digital Storytelling


Creative Educator- 4 articles on digital storytelling
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


Aniboom- animation studio

Animoto- create video slide shows

Big Universe- for younger children

Blurb- prices start at $10.95 (small book) discounts on quantity orders


Bookemon

BoomWriter- students write a book together; class gets one free copy (free shipping)

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



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

Make Beliefs Comix-writing tools, lesson plans, printables





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

Student Publishing
- "Publish individual student stories or have them each contribute to a classbook."; resources for librarians, teachers and parents; many FREE projects.

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.

What-if Questions Genie

Widbook- create, collaborate and share books

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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