Week+4

Week 4:

Digital Storytelling in Education

Digital storytelling is a powerful method to open a world of self-expression for you and your students. As with Glogster, text, audio, video and interactive elements complement and enhance classroom instruction.

There are a wide array of applications that can be used to create digital stories. Such as:

Software: Programs that are free or very inexpensive.

Audio: Popular applications for recording voice or editing music.

Web 2.0:

VoiceThread

Animoto

GoAnimate

Xtranormal

Web Resources:

University of Houston: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/)

50 Ways to Tell a Story (http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways)

Center for Digital Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=3)

Discovery Education: Tech Tips :Digital Storytelling (http://web2010.discoveryeducation.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/4/27/Digital-Storytelling-20-Connect-create-and-collaborate)

iCan Film Festival (http://homepage.mac.com/sfett/html_movie/Ican/4.html)

Examples:

We Didn't Start the Fire

media type="custom" key="10062183" width="370" height="370"

Teachers:

(http://homepage.mac.com/sfett/html_movie/Ican2/teachers.html)

It Had to be You.

(http://homepage.mac.com/sfett/html_movie/Ican/it_had_to_be_you.html)

My Family

(http://homepage.mac.com/sfett/html_movie/Ican/my_family.html)

Education:

(http://homepage.mac.com/sfett/html_movie/Ican3/education.html)