Digital+Storytelling+Resources

__** Informational Sites **__ 50+ Storytelling Tools from CogDogBlog This is a great site with lots of storytelling applications. Some are appropriate for elementary school students, some are better for high school. The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - a good site from the University of Houston [|Jason Ohler] - great storytelling information and ideas The Digital Narrative - an Australian educator's blog with some good resources Voicethread for Educators - a social networking site showing how other educators use Voicethread [|Digitales] - has some good ideas and evaluation information [|Lesson Planet] - a collection of digital storytelling lesson plans

__** Applications **__

Tikatok - a good site for primary and lower intermediate - allows you to actually make hard and softcover books Storybird - another good primary site that uses original artwork so the kids can focus on the story PicLits - a very cool site that allows you to write captions or poetry with pictures. You can then right click on them and save them and then use them in a ppt or moviemaker Mixbook - another great online book building site that has a section for educators Animoto - combines music and photos to create a great video. Useful for teachers, too! ISSUU - an application that allows you to create ebooks from pdf files (you can convery ppt to pdf and then upolad them here!) OurStory - an application that allows you to create timelines Voicethread - a great way to alow a number of students to work together Capzle - an application that allows you to build great timelines

**__ How-To Information __**

[|MovieMaker Tutorial]

Photostory Tutorial

Photostory tutorial on youtube

Tutorial for making Digital Stories with PowerPoint

Storyboard Sheet

Here is the code for embedding a media file straight into the portal, rather than uploading it first (Gary Kern) The code is:          I’ve attached the original document for public pages, but it is a similar process for portals. You need to upload your video to a document library. You need to copy the URL of the video. You need to embed the code in a content editor webpart and add the video url between the quotations in the code above. You can manipulate the width and size of the video changing the top and bottom code paramaters.

Copyright, FairUse and Intellectual Property for Educators
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Creative Commons site - some great basic information

Creative Commons Search - a great way to search for CC photos and images

Pics4learning - a great site with pictures for educational use

ccMixter - a CC site for downloading, mixing and mashing music

Freeplay Music - free, downloadable music