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21st Century Storytelling!

**What is digital storytelling?**
//"Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games)//. ([|Wikipedia])

What is a digital story?
> > > You can design a basic or more complex story that can be created with a variety of web 2.0 tools or basic PC tools using images, audio, and/or video.
 * A digital story can be a retelling of a personal event or experience, using digital or digitized images, audio, and video....
 * It can also be a retelling of a a work of fiction, or an original work of fiction...
 * A narration of a historical event or period of events...
 * A narration of some other non-fiction subject matter....
 * It can be very brief (one frame, less than 30 seconds, etc.), or it can be complex and of longer duration


 * Benefits!**
 * Appeals to a diverse range of learning styles, ages and technological backgrounds
 * Generates interest and motivation
 * Captures creativity
 * Student work can be published/shared
 * Deep reflection comes during the process and after the work is shared (via critiques, feedback and self-reflection)
 * Students develop communication skills by constructing narratives, asking questions, writing for an audience and publishing
 * Technology skills are increased using a wealth of multi-media and current web technology


 * Caveats!**
 * Not every web-based tool is student-friendly, or meant for younger age groups. Check out every aspect of a tool's website before introducing it to children.

Get yourself organized!
**1.) sketch out your story idea - [|here is an example of a storyboard] ** **2.) select your photos, images, etc. - click here for resources. [|Click here for some ideas about how to organize your media on your desktop.]** **3.) choose your storytelling format (below)**

=Choose your tools!=

Slideshow tools
@Microsoft Photostory

Also for free online: Picasa, Slide, Flickr, and many more!

Multimedia tools
@Voicethread

[|Here's our starter Voicethread for today....]

Scrapbooking/collage tools
@Scrapblog Create multipage collections of photos (import from 5 photo sites), decoration "stickies", videos from YouTube, and publish to several blog sites.

Slide

Video Tools
Animoto

Comic Tools
Go Animate! (Appropriate for Teacher use, possibly OLDER students?) [|Domo Animate!] The kid-friendly version of Go Animate!

[|'Make Beliefs Comix]

[|Read, Write, Think - Comic Creator]

[|Pixton] [|Pixton for Schools]

[|Toondoo] (kid site)

[|Bitstrips (for schools)]

=Link to "50+ Ways to Tell a Story"=