Digital Storytelling
Wow your students with the power of digital storytelling. Pictures, graphics, text, and animations flashing before their eyes help make learning more engaging! You will learn about a few tools to help you hook students at the start of a lesson or use them to have students to tell their own stories! The possibilities are endless! Please bring your iPad to class. (K-12)
Tools of the Trade
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PC/Mac |
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Creative Commons Resources
It is important to use royalty free and Creative Commons images and music when creating projects. Below are some great places to find images, clipart, and music/sound effects that are copyright compliant.
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Integrating Digital Storytelling
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For Student Use:
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Helpful Resources
- Toontastic Planning Document - This document is for students to plan their Toontastic stories. They can cut out the different characters, backgrounds, etc. to fill in their storyboard.
- Toontastic Storyboard - An exact storyboard that matches the Toontastic story layout. This document also contains a step-by-step tutorial on using Toontastic (slightly out-dated due to updates).
- Digital Storytelling Sample Rubric
- Storify Quick Overview/Tutorial
- StoryMaps Step-by-Step Tutorial
- Tween Tribune - A great resource for finding current events news stories that are written at multiple lexile levels, grade, etc.
- Digital Storytelling Handout - Check out the different tools, with examples.