Digital Story Telling

• 50 Digital Storytelling Tools
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  Who doesn't like a good story? There is always a why to make digital story telling useful in a classroom. It doesn't matter what the content area is because story are creative learning devices. Digital story telling is no different from any other story telling just got a fancy new look to it. Again I don't have a classroom or students so I'm just going to wing it and make up an example. An digital story idea I have been playing with for a while in my head goes something like this...

  
  

  Broke the students up into groups because cooperative learning is great for students. Each group now will create a blog (going digital) and they will create the first page of a story. It's a collaborative story and it can be down with any web 2.0 tool. Depending on the content area the stories will vary, but lets focus something like math. Students create a story about someone or something trying to solve something with math using one of the many formulas (preferably one the are working on in class). The groups will set up the scene. After the first post is done the groups reply to another groups blog and continue the story keeping in mind the core component of solving the problem at the end. The last group will end the story and solve the problem. Simple enough right?

  
  

  This will engage students in developing technology literacy, writing skills and improve their reading comprehension. Students can achieve good fluency when reading aloud, rereading, and one-on-one feedback. They are cooperative learning by delegating authority and sharing responsibility for learning. They can identify the structure and sequencing in their own writing as well as others and work on feedback. Imagery will help them recall and understand information and text. This all boils down to improving reading and writing skills.

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Wordle
Abcya
Tagxedo
Blabberize
Voki

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I tried to look at something new, something I haven't explored before which lead me to Sync.in. It took a bit of playing around in order to get a free trail because there is no longer a free edition. It was fun to play around with but its your standard collaborative tool. You get live chat with members using the application, take notes, collaborate notes and all that business. Its pretty looking but in all honesty with free application like Google Docs and the many extensions you can download for it not the best choice. If I had to use it or something similar in a class I would use it more or less for creative projects, give students a chance to work together outside class. An application like this is good for something like a group story. Where one starts a line then another one continues then another till the story is complete. You can save the information and only select people can access the collaborative work.

The second thing I wanted to look at was LiveBinders. Why? Its nice to be organized. Personally I can use this for my eportfolio, come to think about it that isn't a bad idea. Some students use eportfolio to showcase their knowledge and learning over the years, LiveBinder can help students organize information. You can also have students organize information for final projects or research papers to show their process and progress. It works on many different OS and is easy to use and organize like a physical binder. You can share your binder with others via social media. One last idea would be to use LiveBinder for students to upload assignments.

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