This document provides an overview of digital storytelling tools that can be used to engage students. It discusses what digital storytelling is, why it is used, and ideas for digital stories. It also provides examples of free and paid web and mobile apps that can be used to create digital stories, along with resources for digital storytelling projects.

1. Digital
Storytelling
Web 2.0 tools and iPad and
tablet apps to engage your
students
Win Biernacki
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2. Everyone has a story...

3. Everyone has many powerful stories to tell and people
who believe they are mundane, uninteresting, or
unmemorable possess beneath this mask a vivid, complex,
and rich body of stories just waiting to be told. "
-Center for Digital Storytelling
http://storycenter.org/

4. “The destiny of the world is determined less
by the battles that are lost or won than by
the stories it loves and believes in.”
Harold Clarke Goddard
Why tell stories?

5. http://www.milamberblog.com/remember-strategic-stories-are-a-powerful-learning-tool/storytelling-cartoon/

6. “Digital storytelling at its most basic core is
the practice of using computer-based tools
to tell stories.”
The University of Houston
Dept. of Education
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Website
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27&sublinkid=29
What is Digital Storytelling?

7. “The main part of intellectual education is not
the acquisition of facts, but learning how to
make the facts live.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why Digital Storytelling?

8. • To promote:
o literacy
o creativity
o collaboration
o confidence
• To engage
• To share
Why DIGITAL Storytelling?

9. • Biographies/Autobiographies
• Historical events
• Field trips - real or virtual
• Science Fair
• Book reports/book trailers
• Language Arts - Poetry, short stories
• Mystery videos
• Math concepts
• etc., etc.
Digital Storytelling Ideas

10. • purpose
• ease of use
• functionality
• share-ability
Choosing a DS tool

11. Paper slide videos
PhotoStory (Microsoft - no longer supported)
PowerPoint, Prezi
Audacity (audio only)
In Three Words
Easy tech; good results and FREE

12. Sample:
How-to:
http://ramblingsofagiftedclass.wikispaces.com/Paper
+Slide+Project
Paper slide video

13. Sample:
In 3 Words...

14. • Have a plan
• Research, images (limit images)
• If collaborating, decide who has what role
• Write a storyboard
• Give credit (understand copyright)
• Practice, practice, practice BEFORE filming
• Use a tripod when filming
If your students use a video tool...

15. Make Beliefs Comix: free (iPad also)
Kidblog: basic, free (iPad app also)
iMovie: (Mac $14.99 or iPad $4.99)
Voicethread: $15/mo + (5 free on iPad)
Glogster*: starts @ $39/yr
Animoto*: $35/yr pers; free classrm acct; iPad view app
ZooBurst*: (free basic, classroom and school licenses avail.) - create 3D pop-
up books via website
*iPad apps allow you to view only
Web 2.0 Tools

17. • FREE
• uses Google Earth and Google Maps to provide
timeline and location.
• voice over and video (15 sec.) can be added
• can embed in class or school website/blog/wiki
• <iframe frameborder='0' height='404' scrolling='no' src='http://www.meograph.com/embed/ahughes17/15303/causes-of-the-civil-
war' width='560'></iframe>
Meograph

19. • on the web or as an app
• uses artwork to inspire writing
• can set up classes, students
• no voiceover
• can order pdf or hardcover books
Sample: http://storybird.com/explore/
Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2ZCtw18wo

20. Sample:
Tutorial:

21. • Use single picture, head shot, face
forward
• Great for biographies
• Educator account - can save, email,
embed link

22. • Online; ed accounts avail
• Can upload images and video
• Voiceover enabled. Use for:
o Oral reports
o Math concepts
o Classroom/teacher introductions
o Language Arts: poetry, short stories
• Can email link, share via acct., embed

23. Sample Voicethread:
https://voicethread.com/?#q.b1391.i15630
Tutorial:

24. PhotoStage Slideshow
Tutorial:
Downloadable Tools

25. iMovie
Windows Live MovieMaker
Downloadable Tools

26. Puppetpals HD free, in-app purch, all-
access = $4.99
Toontastic starter ed. free; full Teacher’s edition, $9.99
iPad apps - Cartoons

27. • Storehouse images, text, video
o uses: biography, field trips, school event
o 50 photo/video limit; video 30 sec.
o share: link via email
• Tell About This ($2.99 paid version also; 50% vol. disc. -
more prompts, unlimited stories, unlimited students)
o picture story prompts or create your own
o share video via email
• Shadow Puppet very easy to use; camera roll images, your
voice. Best shared on small screen; can email
iPad apps - FREE

28. Drawp (in-app purch. $.99-$4.99) - kids safely send digital messages to
family.
Tellagami (in-app purchases also) - user-designed avatar coupled with
background and voice to create a ‘gami’. Share via email, facebook,
twitter, iMessage
Draw Your Stories (1 free story, 2 require sharing, $.99 ea add’l) - narrated
stories where students complete the illustrations (with help)
ZooBurst (free basic, classroom and school licenses avail.) - create 3D
pop-up books via website, access via iPad app
iPad apps - FREE

29. Make Beliefs Comix -
Eng, Span, French, German, Ital., Portugese & Latin
iPad apps - FREE - Multilingual

30. • Amazing App Stories - 30 minutes to add
200-800 words to an EXISTING story.
You pick the genre
• Use for: writing, writing prompts
• Note: if teacher creates 1st paragraph,
you can continue to see the story;
otherwise, no ability to save.
iPad apps - FREE - Collaborative

31. Hideout:
BYU developed. Sounds ‘ap’, ‘en’, ‘it’, ‘op’,
‘ag’, and ‘et’. Student create words,
turned into stories.
iPad apps - FREE - Interactive

32. • Easy Studio-Animate - $3.99. Animated video
creation
• Toonia Storymaker - $2.99, ages 4-10. Characters
and settings built in. Story starters or write own.
• Book Creator ($4.99, vol pricing avail.) Free version
avail. (one book)
• Sago Mini Doodlecast ($2.99) ages 2-6. Whiteboard;
draw and record voice, drawing prompts
iPad Apps - PAID but worth checking out...

33. • Shutterfly - free. Free webinar April 7th at
3:00 pm.
http://www.instantpresenter.com/Account
Manager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EC59D78182
4C
iPad Apps

34. • Digital Story Cubes (free)
• Story Dice (free)
• Writing Challenge for Kids ($.99) (iOS
also)
• Big Nate: Comix by U! ($2.99)
• Flipbook Creator: Love Memories (free)
• Educational Comic Creator (free)
Android apps

35. • Animoto
• Photo Stage slideshow
• Toontastic Jr. Pirates
• Tellagami
• Haiku Deck (iOS also)
Android apps (cont’d)

36. Kathy Schrock (CCSS, Rubrics)
http://www.schrockguide.net/digital-storytelling.html
Bernajean Porter: Digitales http://www.digitales.us/
Common Sense Media (app and tools ratings, etc.)
www.commonsensemedia.org
iPad Apps for School, Richard Byrne
ipadapps4school.com
50+ Ways to Tell a Story Online
http://50ways.wikispaces.com/
Resources

37. YouTube
TeacherTube
SchoolTube
Vimeo
Class blog, class wiki, school blog, school
website
Where to publish:

38. See my Padlet wall:
http://padlet.com/wall/music4free/edit
Where to find sound effects:

39. See my Padlet wall:
http://padlet.com/wall/freeimages
Where to find free images:

40. In the early 20th century, American writer Ernest
Hemingway made a bet with a friend who told him he
couldn’t write a story in under ten words. It’s
impossible, they said. Not one to give in, he came
back with this one-line tale.
“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.”
http://fromlittlethings.co/2013/02/11/why-storytelling-matters/
How many words make a story?

41. I hope you found today’s session helpful.
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Thank you!