Berylaube 00's List: EDTECH storytelling

"Digital Storytelling Highlights of Tools Used by Local Teachers
Digital storytelling is a wonderful academic strategy to enhance student inspired stories and get student’s that typically do not like to write another venue to participate in the lesson."

Available in French, German, Italian and Spanish
Born-digital
Written first for and specifically to be read and viewed from the screen
Interactive
Requires user action to drive the story forward.
Multimedia
Uses text, images, music, sound effects, puzzles and games to illustrate and enhance the narrative.
A Novel
A reading-from-the-screen experience for the “always on” generation.
Episodic Each a self-contained story, the chapters become more complex as the narrative unfolds reflecting Alice’s age and competency as she develops towards her calling as a game animator and designer.
Designed originally as entertainment, ‘Inanimate Alice’ has been adopted by teachers eager to connect with students through media they inherently understand. Created around a high-quality robust text, the content is suitable for the deep-reading and re-reading necessary for academic investigation.

Inanimate Alice is Transmedia - designed from the outset as a story that unfolds over time and on multiple platforms, the episodes are available on all devices capable of running Adobe’s Flash Player. ‘Alice’ connects technologies, languages, cultures, generations and curricula within a sweeping narrative accessible by all. As Alice’s journey progresses, new storylines appear elsewhere providing more details and insights, enriching the tale through surprising developments. Students are encouraged to co-create developing episodes of their own, either filling in the gaps or developing new strands.
Children will grow alongside Alice, from class-to-class from year-to-year, engaged with an ever-growing story in which they become part of the narrative.

Silvia Tolisano, author of the excellent Langwitches blog, has an awesome free ebook about digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators is a 120 page guide to using digital storytelling tools in your classroom. The guide offers clear directions for using tools like Audacity, Google Maps, Photo Story, VoiceThread, and other digital media creation tools. Silvia's directions are aided by clearly annotated screenshots of each digital storytelling tool.
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators also provides a good explanation of digital storytelling in general and the benefits of using digital storytelling in your classroom. You can download the ebook for free on Lulu. You can also purchase a paperback copy of the book for $8.50. I think $8.50 is too low of a price because I bet most people would happily pay twice that price.

Digital Storytelling Tools
A brief guide to the tools of digital storytelling
The following list of software is listed in order of cost and ease-of-use.

Digital Storytelling: text, images, music, video | Glogster A nice overview of digital storytelling on Glogster.
un joli glog avec des liens
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html
http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
a step by step approach
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/getting_started.html

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 Word Tamer - An Interactive Story Builder
Word Tamer is a neat site for learning the process of developing characters, settings, and plots in creative writing. It is set up as an interactive journey through a carnival of literary devices. As students move through the carnival they develop characters, develop a setting, and develop a plot for their stories. At each stop in the WTcarnival students can print out the words they have written. Along the way there are videos to help students understand the roles of characters, settings, and plot development in crafting a good story.
Applications for EducationI learned about WT from Kristen Swanson who noted that the narration and graphics make the site UDL-friendly. I think that it has potential to get reluctant writers started on their way to crafting creative stories.