velear chavez's List: Digital Storytelling

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» Blog Archive » 31 of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites
1. Google Search Stories Video Creator

2. PicLits

3. Domo Animate

4. StoryBird

5. Animoto-

6. ZooBurst-

7. Myths and Legends

8. Shidonni

9. Smile Box

10. Kerpoof

11. Glogster

12. Creaza

13. Voice Thread

14. Graphic Novel Creator

15. Stage’d

16. ePub Bud-

17. Virsona-

18. Zimmer Twins-

19. Fotobabble

20. Picture Book Maker

21. Nota- collaborative workspace

22. My Story Maker

23. Xtranormal

24. Do Ink

25. Piki Kids Comic Creator

26. Bubblr!

Sites to get students writing:

27. Lightening Bug

28. What-if questions for stories

29. The Story Starter Jr.

30. The Story Starter- Also created by Joel!

31. PinBall-bounce ideas around

OurStory goes beyond blogging to permanently capture life's stories in words and photos. Publish or share the stories privately with family and friends.


Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
2.1.4 - Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and und understanding in ways that others can view, use and assess.
3.3.4 - Create products that apply to authentic, real-world context
4.1.8 - Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning

Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video

use images and word bank to create a story

use animation to create a story

The free version of Animoto lets students create 30 second videos that combine images, songs, and text.

ZooBurst is a new site that lets students create virtual 3D popup books.

The story creator lets students combine pictures that they compose with clip art or images that they upload, sound, and words to create a digital story. The stories can be saved, printed, and shared. Students can record themselves reading the story aloud and even add video!

an imaginary world that kids create. It provides a virtual universe where kids can create their own imaginary world, play, and share games and interact with each other in a safe environment online. Kids can create their own animals or characters online and make them interactive. Their characters actually move and interact with the kids (no programming required!).

a free software that lets students combine photos, videos, and music into one amazing multimedia presentation.

create their own picture and story books. They can use Kerpoof’s backgrounds, props, and characters or draw their own illustrations. Students can write their story in both text boxes and speech bubbles. The interface is extremely user friendly, kids will pick it up in no time! The sidebar has thumbnails of each page that students have created, making it easy to see their progress.

a site that lets students combine graphics, photos, videos, music, and text into a great web 2.0 online poster.

There are four tools in the Creaza toolbox that will help your students organize knowledge and tell stories in new creative ways. Mindomo is the mind mapping tool. Students can use this tool to organize thoughts, ideas, links, and other information visually. Mindomo is the perfect tool for exploring new material, looking at connections, and organizing thoughts for further development. The mind map topics can contain media files, links, and text. Cartoonist is a cartooning tool that students can use to create multimedia stories. Cartoonist can be used to create comic strips or more personal digital narratives. The finished product can be viewed online or printed out. (Check out the video demo to learn how to use this tool.) Movie Editor helps students produce their own movies based on Creaza’s thematic universes, video, images, and sound clips. Students can use the Movie Editor to edit a short film, create a news cast, a commercial, a film trailer, etc. Movie Editor can import film clips, sound clips and images to tell a story. Audio Editor is the final tool in Creaza’s creative suite. Audio Editor is a tool that allows your students to produce audio clips. Students can use Audio Editor to splice together their own newscasts, radio commercials, radio interlude, etc.

site that makes outstanding web 2.0 slide shows interactive and collaborative.
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online comic creator, the interface is fun to use and very intuitive. It is obviously geared toward students with a great look and even an embedded music player.

a tool that helps students to tell digital stories in a new 3-d way. Students can create a stage full of characters and dialogue as if they are directing their own digital play. They can choose characters, costumes, animations, set design and provide characters with dialog. When the 3-d comic has been saved, it can be emailed or linked to with a unique url.

the YouTube of Children’s eBooks. The site is YouTube-like in that anyone can create and share their own children’s ebooks. The goal of this not-for-profit website is to provide an easy way to find, share, and self-publish children’s ebooks.

Edgar and Eva Zimmer are 12 year old twins who appear normal but have developed psychic powers. Strange things began to happen when the twins adopted a black cat named 13. On the Zimmer Twins website, students can create their own cartoon movie endings to a story starter or create their own animated movie from scratch. Students can create and edit movies solo or “Collab-o-write” and work together creating a collaborative movie.

a fun little online picture book creator (bet you couldn’t have guessed that from the name!). What makes this picture book creator unique is the great illustration elements that students can use in their story. The illustrations look hand drawn with crayon and can be adjusted to fit the story. Each picture has actions, these are multiple poses of the same character. Even the text looks like it is hand written. All of the characters for the story are animals (this site comes from London zoos). There are also several backdrops and props for students to include in their story. When the book has been completed, it can be saved to the gallery, sent to a friend via email, or printed out.