Session Presentation:
Resources shared during the session:
- Creative Commons: media and intellectual works shared by creators with access and usage rights defined
- Flickr Storm: search flickr by keyword, tag, idea-advanced tab allows selection of Creative Commons shares
- Voicethread
- Mixbook
- Showbeyond
- MapSkip
- Tikatok
Skills addressed by Digital Stories
poster credit to Silvia Tolisano
digital-storytelling-skills-not-tools.pdf
About Digital Storytelling
- What is Digital Storytelling? This is a pdf of a powerpoint presentation
- What are elements of digital storytelling? Additional info here
- Let's talk about digital storytelling (class discussion)
Story Telling Resources and Examples:
- Digital Stories from NPR-This American Life:
- Videos of Ira Glass from This American Life on good story telling
- Digital Storytelling in Plain English
- Storytelling with Children
- Digital Storytelling for Educators-Silvia Tolisano-can be purchased as book or downloaded for free
- Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations
- Digital Storytelling site from Illinois school
- Stories from the south
- 5th Grade digital portfolios
- Many ideas and helps for using Voicethread in k12
- Primary Grades ideas and examples of Voicethread
- Using Voicethread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking
- Interesting Ways to use Voicethread (and other apps) in the classroom
Book Resource Recommendations
- Title:
- Author: Jason B. Ohler
- Title: DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories
- Author: bjpconsulting
- Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators
- Author Midge Frazel
Story Starters
- Make a storytelling box
- Use picture books
- Have a camp fire
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm
- http://thestorystarter.com/
Information on Copyright
- The end to copyright confusion - http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/
- User rights Music Video & Links to Lesson Plan Resources - http://mediaeducationlab.com/2-user-rights-section-107-music-video
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use Booklet- Code Booklet
Copyright Friendly Photos
Although these sites are free to use, most sites and artists still require attribution to use their work.
- Flickr
- FlickrStorm - http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ (Using FlickrStorm - how to search and find free images)
- Flickr Creative Commons Image Search - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
- Morge File - http://www.morguefile.com
- 4FreePhotos - http://www.4freephotos.com
- Pics4Learning - http://www.pics4learning.com
- American Memory Collection - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Photograph
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Search engines
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Kids Image Search Tools - http://www.kidsclick.org/psearch.html
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Copyright Friendly Clip Art
- http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html
- http://classroomclipart.com/
- http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/
- http://www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com/
Copyright Friendly Music
Although these sites are free to use, most sites and artists still require attribution to use their work.
- Soungle (sound effects) - http://soungle.com/index.php
- Internet Archive: Audio Search - http://www.archive.org/details/audio
- The Free Sound Project - http://www.freesound.org/searchText.php
- Free-Loops - http://free-loops.com/
- Creative Commons Featured Audio Sites - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Audio
- Jamendo (whole songs) - http://www.jamendo.com/en/creativecommons
- 8-bit rocket (music loops) - http://www.8bitrocket.com/music.aspx
Digital Storytelling Articles and Guides
These articles discuss the elements of digital storytelling and provide some guidance in use
- The Art of Storytelling by Bernajean Porter: ArtOfStorytelling.pdf
- Beyond Words by Bernajean Porter: BeyondWordsISTE.pdf
- David Jakes Digital Story Guide: JakesDigitalStory.pdf
- Tips for Telling Your Story: Eight Tips for Telling Your Story Digitally.pdf
- Storytelling eBook: A Special eBook from Technology & Learning<_em> and Digital Media in the Classroom.pdf
- Digital Storytelling Cookbook: cookbook.pdf
- digitalstorytellingarticle.pdf
Digital Storytelling Worksheets and Planning
- StoryBoard Template: Digital_Storytelling_Storyboard.pdf
- Story Checklist: Digital_Storytelling_Checklist.pdf
- Skills included in digital storytelling: Baker's Dozen Skills.pdf
- Seven Elements: SevenElements.pdf and seven_elements.pdf
- Another storyboard: storyboard.pdf
Links to Digital Storytelling Resources and Examples
- Digital Storytelling Tools List http://ability-programs-challengertafe.wikispaces.com/Digital+StoryTelling+Links
- Center for Digital Storytelling http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
- 50 Ways to tell a Story http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
- 7 Elements of Digital Stories http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/7elements.html
- Eight tips for Digital Stories http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/page6738.cfm
- Mind Map of Storytelling http://atr.k12.hi.us/tutorials/tutorials/digstory/helpelements.htm
- Digital Storytelling 2.0 http://jakes.editme.com/DigitalStorytellingTwo
- These Stories in These Pictures http://www.storycenter.org/canada/index.html
- Mabry Online "Oscar" winning grade 5-8 videos. http://mabryonline.org/archives/mtv/
Digital Storytelling Web Applications
- VoiceThread http://voicethread.com This allows you to upload pictures and add text and voice
- MapSkip http://mapskip.com This allows you to pinpoint a location on a map and add pictures, text and upload audio
- PhotoBucket http://photobucket.com Allows pictures, text, frames- no audio
- Picasa Web http://picasaweb.google.com Attach Pictures to a map that then plays like a slideshow
- ShowBeyond http://www.showbeyond.com Similar to Voicethread-can add narrative, pictures and sounds