1. Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread by Kim Sloggett VoiceThread

2. Empowers student voices Enables students to create media Allows for more expression than words alone Encompasses multiple learning styles Can connect students to academic literacy Transforms kids who have tuned out learning Benefits of Digital Storytelling

3. Make personal stories into multimedia texts Create digital biographies Create digital math stories to illustrate story problems Create comic book versions of novels Relate description of a place or setting Illustrate steps in a process Classroom Applications

4. Point of view Emotional content Economy (only 2-3 minutes in length) Pacing set by student Personal narration Elements of a Digital Story

5. Plan a storyboard Write a script Sequence the images Add narrative or written track Add transitions Add a soundtrack Steps in Creating a Digital Story

6. Center for Digital Storytelling www.storycenter.org Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories www.digitales.us Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling Voicethread www.voicethread.com Microsoft Photo Story 3 www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/ photostory/default.mspx Resources for Digital Storytelling