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Great Apps for Digital Story Telling
- Animoto
- BaiBoard
- Dragon Dictation
- Book Creator ($4.99)
- Doodle Buddy
- Educreations
- Idea Sketch
- My Story - Book Maker for Kids
- ShowMe
- Puppet Pals
- ScreenChomp
- Story Buddy
- Story Kit
- Story Press
- Tellagami
- Toontastic
- Toonastic Jr. Pirates
- Videolicious
- VoiceThread
Animoto has been around a long time on the computer. The app is even more powerful because of how quickly and easily images and sound can be strung together, helping. Additionally, this app helps students understand the power of images, requiring them to think critically about the images they choose and what information, tone and emotions are conveyed by those images. Captioning and choice of music add to the impact of each student’s work.
BaiBoard - Collaborative Whiteboard is a free virtual whiteboard app that allows students to make multi-page whiteboards while collaborating with others in-person or remotely. It can also be used to write on and share PDF files. Students simply create a board (using a passcode, if desired, for added security) and add content, guided by the easy-to understand icons at the top of the board. They then can send invites to others (who at the time of this review must have access to an iPad or Mac computer) who can view and/or make changes to the board or PDF document. Boards can also be exported and viewed in many ways -- including email, Dropbox, Evernote, and Facebook -- as well as opened in ArtStudio and other apps. Multiple users can work on a board at the same time, communicating with one another via an in-app instant message feature. The whiteboard can include a a blank background or a background grid, making it handy for shared math work.
Dragon Dictation FREE
Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. FREE
This app is $4.99 and it is my all-time favorite book creator app.
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore.
An easy to use drawing program to create pictures for your publications.
Doodle Buddy for iPad – Paint, Draw, Scribble, Sketch
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...
With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.
Idea Sketch (Free)
Lets you create simple mind maps, diagrams, or outlines
Like Kidspiration and Inspiration
My Story - Book Maker for Kids FREE
By HiDef Web Solutions Create and share ebooks by adding drawings, photos, and stickers. Then record your voice on every page and share your story with friends, family and classmates. We’ve made My Story super teacher friendly by adding multiple authors and syncing across multiple iPads through a free Bright Bot account! So now you can have all your classroom iPads in sync! Of course this is a great app for the home as well. $3.99
ShowMe FREE
Interactive Whiteboard
A great interactive whiteboard app.
Puppet Pals allows you to create a show (or story) using puppets and scenery.
Here is YouTube video that will demo this app.
ScreenChomp is an awesome way to use screencasting for storytelling with our youngest learners. Just put up a picture and have your student talk about it, draw on top of it, and record. This app allows for authentic communication of learning as students are able to show process and understanding.
Story Buddy 2 LITE FREE
Story Buddy’s update now allows you to create multiple stories on one iPad. It looks similar to iBooks now with a shelf, thus allowing multiple students to be able to create individual stories on one iPad. When the app opens, students can continue creating the piece they started without interfering with other students’ work, or having to wait for one student to finish publishing.
Meant as an app to read stories, it has the capability for you to create stories. You can use photos or draw your own illustrations and write and record text. Here is a slideshare on Storykit with an example of a story.
Storytelling is an art and performing this art is a lot easier with this interactive digital storytelling app. You will be interviewed by the app about your life; all your answers will be recorded and will be compiled together to make them your life’s story.
With Tellagami, students can create quick animations that liberate them from the physical world and remove concerns about appearance and general physics. Tellagami allows them to create an avatar and custom background, as well as to have the avatar speak with the student’s voice or via text-to-speech. Students can place their avatars in all sorts of interesting places like a plant cell or next to George Washington. They can have their avatar sit on a library book shelf or stand on the ocean floor.
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a creative storytelling app that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world. Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.
Toonastic Jr. Pirates - for iPad FREE
This colorful, pirate themed app invites children to create their own cartoons by using fun-tastic characters and scenery in a quick and easy way. Cartoonish pirates, mermaids, ghosts and princesses all add to the cast of characters that will have children creating their own cartoon in just minutes. Children can create stories alone or with others by using a feature called “Story Share”, which enables your child to connect live (with parental assistance) to a friend or family member to create a story together online. Toontastic also has an “All-Access” app we encourage you to download. FREE
Videolicious allows students to shoot, do short quick edits in a matter of minutes, and easily share their videos. The app is being used by reporters from newspapers, like the Washington Post, to have their reporters capture and report news quickly. Students can use this app like the experts, quickly and easily creating videos.
What's a VoiceThread anyway? (8 pages)
Click the link above to view and participate in the VoiceThread. Making comments is really simple and you can delete and re-record as many times as you like.
If you are viewing this on iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and you have the VoiceThread app installed, tap here to view this VoiceThread on your device.
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Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen. VoiceThread takes your conversations to the next level, capturing your presence, not just your comments. Anyone can join the discussion from their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC -- anytime, anywhere.
- Add images and videos from your camera or photo library.
- Flip through pages and annotate them while you narrate.
- Sharing is as easy as sending an email.
- Use your VT account if you have one -- just sign in and all your threads will be there.
- Access the extensive catalog of content created on voicethread.com.
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