PRESENTATION OVERVIEW:
Click on the PowerPoint link at the bottom of the page to download the Presentation's introduction piece.
RUBRICS AND HOW TO's:
A great place to start your digital adventures. This site provides the foundation and alternative resources for online publishing and editing options.
Digital Storytelling 101: Rubrics and Storyboards
An overview of assessment methods geared for Digital Storytelling provided by Discovery Education
OTHER SITES TO EXPLORE:
A non linear web based storytelling program with the ability to interweave personal files with web content to create a multi-layered story. A sweet site.
http://www.imagetovideo.com/index.php
No sign up or registration needed to create embedable slideshows using your images (powerpoint slides as jpgs). Add a final touch by inserting your own music file to it.
http://www.moglue.com/builder/
Create your own interactive ebook. An ebook builder program that allows you to download software and create your own ebook. No programming skills required.
A mac looking web-based presentation program that allows users to share presentations online.
A free youtube file editor that allows you to cut and splice video and then repost it-no sign up needed
The web site allows users to create podcasts with images — basically, narrated slideshows — in just three steps:
Users can upload photos to their Bird Tale or they can use an embedded drawing tool to draw images. Older students can add text to their images.
Users then record narration to go with each image.
Finally, users share their Bird Tales, by sending a URL via e-mail.Teachers can easily create a FREE account and begin creating tales. They can have all their students create tales under a single account, but the site also allows teachers to create separate FREE accounts for each student. These accounts are always connected to the teachers’ account, and the website is built to ensure student privacy since so many younger kids use it.
The website asks users to create and use a “school code” so teachers and students from the same school can be grouped together. Teachers can’t access Bird Tales from another class unless it’s been shared with them, but it allows teachers to see who else in their school is using the tool and how often. This is helpful in terms of finding on-site teachers who can offer support.
Microsoft PhotoStory 3
A great and free resources that allows you to create and publish stories as .mov files.
Glogs are online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.
Have fun creating and making things in English! You can practice your English as you create stories, monsters or superheroes and as you make things from our craft downloads. Some of the craft downloads have videos to help you.
Technically, UJAM is a music creation tool. And it’s actually a pretty good one. After starting an account, a user can record themselves singing or playing an instrument. Then, with the click of a button, the website creates a full soundtrack to accompany what the user recorded. The user can choose a music “style” (i.e., 80s rock, reggae, game music) to specify what type of soundtrack will accompany their recording.
At its most basic level, students can create podcasts in just 3 steps:
Students record their voice reading a poem, personal narrative, or other piece they wrote.
Then, they choose a “style” that fits the mood of that piece (students won’t know what a lot of the styles are, so they’ll often try out several of them before they find one that works).
Finally, they download an mp3 of their completed recording.UJAM allows users to save their work and come back to it and, when they’re done, to download an mp3 of the track they create. One caveat: with UJAM, sometimes students’ recorded voices are overpowered by the music tracks, so it’s important to have students speak loudly when they record (using an external computer microphone helps with this).
Teachers can have all students use their account, can create separate accounts for each student, or can have students create their own accounts. UJAM requires a unique e-mail address to start an account and doesn’t have accounts specifically for students, but all accounts are FREE.
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Soundation Studio is the free online music making application that gives everyone the opportunity to make music on the internet. With instant access to music making tools like a loop library, virtual instruments, real time effects, automation, audio recording and editing. You can save, post to web or download your work. If you need more sounds there is an integrated sound shop that offers an array of high quality loops ready to be used directly in Soundation. There are paid accounts that offer access to the premium sound library and AudioLocker a desktop application that lets you import your own sounds into Soundation as well as store your personal sounds in your Soundation “cloud account”.
SlideRocket.com-With this tool you will be able to create rich and dynamic presentations similar to PowerPoint. If you school is powered by Google Apps then you can get a Free Account. Otherwise there is a cost.