1. Digital Storytelling across the Curriculum Web 2.0 Tools Latasha Smart, M.Ed. Technology Master Teacher North District Middle School Hampton School District #1

2. What is Digital Storytelling Sharing stories through words, pictures, video, and audio

3. Why Digital Story Telling Tell me and I forget Teach me and I remember Involve me and I learn Benjamin Franklin

4. Why Digital Story Telling We Learn... 10% of what we READ 20% of what we HEAR 30% of what we SEE 40% of what we SEE and HEAR 70% of what we DISCUSS with others 80% of what we EXPERIENCE personally 95% of what we TEACH someone else William Glasser

5. How is it Different Traditional Report Research Write Submit Digital Storytelling Research Write Read, collect images Read, re-read, record Review, enhance Publish, present VS

6. Benefits of Digital Storytelling Develops writing and reading skills Develops problem-solving skills Develops visual literacy skills Develops technology skills Foster presentation skills Integrates research skills Outlet for creativity enhancement and personal expression

7. Elements of a Digital Story Purpose of the story Narrator’s point of view Choice of content Quality of the images Voice over narration Creation of the story

9. Across the Curriculum Ideas Language Arts All About Me Tell a Tale Digital Book Report Digital Diary Social Studies Family History Intergenerational Storytelling Community Stories Going back in time Virtual travels Fine Arts Creative writing, poetry, music videos Technology Green screen Business Company stories-founder, employees, customers Product profiles Community service Science How To... Creature Features

10. Assessing Digital Storytelling Rubrics! Rubrics! Rubrics! Rubistar Digitales

11. Copyright,CreativeCommons,and FairUse Free Music Beat Lab Sound Bible Freeplaymusic Free Images Image Base iClipart Teacher Tap Copyright and Fair use Guidelines for Teachers

12. Authoring Tools PictLits Zoobursts Animoto Kerpoof Voki Storybird Blabberize Graphic Novel Creator Tar Heel Reader Voicethread Glogster Toon Doo Domo Animate Storyjumper Go Animate Smories

13. PictLits PictLits is a creative writing site.The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Examples Adaptation Music

14. Zooburst Zooburst is a web-based application that allows users to create 3-D popup books. Examples 5 Senses Parts of a Story Ecology

15. Kerpoof Kerpoof is a website where students can partake in many activities, including: spell a picture, make a movie, make a card, make a picture, and tell a story. Using "tell a story" students can use pre-made pictures to write and illustrate their own book. There are 6 themes to choose from: inventions, rock star, fantasy, pirates, winter tales and aliens. Examples The Wonderful Kingdom The legend of Andrew Jackson

16. Domo Animate Domo Animate is a free animation tool created for educators. Domo Animate allows users to build up a story over up to 11 scenes, including using music, sound effects and visual effects. Characters and scenes are deliberately pupil-friendly and there is no access to inappropriate content. Example Little Shiny Girl Pluto

17. Voicethread A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Examples An Egg-cellent Experiment Book Review

18. Glogster Glogster allows you to create media rich posters with images, video, audio (uploaded or recorded) and apply a wide range of visual effects- size, rotation, scaling, as well as for text. Web links can be added for any item. Any embedded media can be viewed via a built in player. Examples Frog Dissection Atomic Bomb

19. ToonDoo ToonDoo is a free and fast comic strip creator Examples Mean Teacher Photosynthesis

20. Animoto Animoto allows users to create multimedia slideshows using text, images, music, and/or short (10-second) video clips. Educators can register to get a code which allows numerous full-length video accounts to be created for free. While there is no audio recording component currently available in Animoto for voice narration, users can use text slides to compliment images or video to create the digital narrative. Any sound on a video clip can also be brought in to the Animoto. Examples Photosynthesis Turns

21. Voki Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. Voki is being used by teachers in many creative ways across the curriculum to both enhance language skills as well as to offer students non-textual ways of taking in information. Examples Diary of a Wimpy Kid Famous People

22. Storyjumper Storyjumper is a web-based tool that lets students create an online book with background scenes, props and characters, uploaded images, and text on digital pages. There is a free education version that allows teachers to create student accounts. Finished stories are viewed on the computer and pages can be virtually ‘flipped’ beautifully, but can also be printed off on paper. Users have the option to purchase bound, hard-copy print versions of stories for $25-$30 USD which can be mailed to them. Examples A to Z Read with Me The Life of Spartan

23. Storybird Storybird provides beautiful collections of artwork from a variety of artists, to arrange and use as inspiration for a story. Users can add or remove pages, arrange artwork on the pages, and add text. Finished stories are displayed beautifully on the screen. While not as much control over layout as Storyjumper, this is a quick and easy way to generate text based on beautiful images. Examples My Goals for Sixth Grade Failure Is Not An Option

24. Go Animate GoAnimate For Schools is an easy-to-use, yet powerful cartoon movie editing software full of great characters and scenes and the ability for students to give their characters actions and dialogue. That dialogue can be given in text speech bubbles or even recorded by the user through the microphone. Examples Thinking Cap Biography

25. Blabberize Blabberize is easy, quick way for kids to write for an authentic audience. It allows you to "speak" through a picture by recording your voice and moving the mouth on the face of the picture you have chosen. You need to write a script of some sort first, and then read it aloud, so it's another fun way to use literacy skills online. Examples

26. Tar Heel Reader Developed at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, this tool allows creation of a captioned slide show for beginning readers, with features designed for accessibility (text to speech, reader selected font and background colors) and offers downloads of stories in PowerPoint, Flash, and Impress Format. Examples Desert Animals The Sad Story of Growly the Tiger

27. Smories Smories is a video-blog, or "vlog", based website where many young authors can be viewed reading both unpublished and published stories for all the world to see! Examples A Shell Whose Snail Has Gone Do teachers know everything?

28. Graphic Novel Creator http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/