Using+Technology+to+Tell+Your+Story

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7/13/2010, Tuesday, 12:00 – 3:00
=7/15/2010, Thursday, 8:00 – 11:00=

Spice up student work. Go beyond pencil and paper. Learn how your students can utilize graphics, sound, video, and text to tell their story, present information, and to inform their audience. Explore Photo Story, Bookbuilder, Digital E ‐books, and other tools. Incorporate Audacity and online resources for music and sound and learn how to acquire them for use in projects. [ISTE Teacher Standard: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity //] Install Audaity and lame file Secure headset mics Online Audacity steps Download [|Martview Download] Download Photostory and Online Photostory steps [|Photostory 3] Picts available for stories Quick and Dirty handouts for each example below. Download videos if needed after tsting at school. Download Picasa for digital pict workshop. Download [|Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English] to teacher machine Sharon version of Audacity and Lame. LAME MP3 encoder

[|Storytelling in Central Park] [|Digital Storytelling in Plain English] [|Defining Digital Storytelling]

What is Digital Storytelling?
Short 3-minute videos that include photos, artwork, objects, music, and/or the writer's own voice, are often created with free software that requires very little technical knowledge, and become powerful stories for communicating with a diverse audiences.

Stories can be told in very different ways using different mediums. There are slideshow and timeline tools, comic and scrapbook tools, as well as photo, video and audio tools. Forms of Storytelling include Podcasts, Videos, Animation, Slide Shows and Digital Books, just to name a few.


 * Online EBooks

Stories-Booklets-Books** [|Martview Download] (See your coordinator before downloading) [|Martview E-Book Sample]

[|Scribd] [|Scribd Help Desk] [|Scribd E-Book Sample] [|BookBuilder] [|Mixbook] (create and share online, not printable)

[|Comic Creator] [|My Story Maker] Sample Story #701285. Choose MyStory Maker [|Creaza] Wow Cartoonist, Play demo. [|Storybird] [|Integrating Storybird] [|StoryBird Sample] [|Story Starters]
 * Create with StoryStarters, Characters, Backgrounds and / or Action**

[|Bio-Mystery Cube] [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling] - See video, Create-Example uses PhotoStory. [|Video: Create a **Booklet**] (Word 07) [|Tools for Storytelling]

check word doc for updated ideas for digital storytelling info

[|Word Booklet] [|Magnetic Poetry] [|Stapleless Books] [|Museum Box] Registration Required [|Photostory 3] [|Wiglington & Wenks Virtual World]
 * Activity and Project Ideas**

[|How To Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom] - Inspire Student Creativity [|Digital Storytelling Cookbook]​ [|Photos Around the World] [|One True Media Sample] Download videos- Digital Storytelling in Plain English [] [|Wide Mouth Frog]
 * Resources**

[|Microsoft Digital Storytelling]

[|Lexpedia] [|Visuwords]
 * Words and Word Relationships**

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 * Sound Links**