Storyboard Generator. http://generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard Storyboard Generator.
You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs.
Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends.
Remember to register with Generator first if you would like to save your storyboard.
Story Wheel http://storywheel.cc/ Story Wheel
Choose your images ... order them ... record an audio narrative ... it is that easy.
Digital Storytelling Resource Kit http://web.tech4learning.com/digital-storytelling-resource-kit Digital Storytelling Resource Kit
Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. This kit is designed to help you start using this exciting process in your classroom.
Binumi http://binumi.com/ “Binumi is an online video playground that enables students to create and tell a visual story by accessing our extraordinary royalty-free video and multimedia library,” says Anthony Copping, CEO of Binumi.com.
Conceived and put together by documentary filmmakers and creative professionals who travel the world capturing moments, can help your school and your students. Binumi’s content consists of over 1,000,000 professionally shot video clips from more than 50 countries, and has over 100,000 multimedia files including music tracks, sound effects, photography and graphics.
Binumi is an innovative ‘Edutainment’ teaching tool that encourages students to express their creativity as they learn. It is the biggest online resource of rights-free content ever made available, enabling students and teachers to produce, distribute, and even sell their Binumi creations.
Story Creator 2 http://tools.e2bn.org/tool_7.html Story Creator 2
Story Creator 2 will help you to use pictures to create a graphic version of a story. The 'Story Creator' comes with lots of backgrounds, characters and props and you can even add your own pictures.
Stroome : mashup video + images + audio http://www.stroome.com/ Stroome : mashup video + images + audio
Stroome is the world’s most comprehensive collaborative online video editing community. A place where anyone with a camera and a point of view can polish, publish and promote their content to a potential audience of millions.
There’s nothing to download. It all happens in your browser. And the best part? It’s free. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/intro/DS-intro.htm Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
We invite you to explore the resources on this website and contact us if you have questions, comments, or ideas about the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling.
British photographer, educator and digital storyteller, Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as "short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart." He maintains that the beauty of this form of digital expression is that these stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.
Brainshark http://www.brainshark.com/ Brainshark : Upload ppt and digital media and add narration
With Brainshark’s cloud-based solution, you can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched online and mobile video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand...and tracked so you can measure the effectiveness of your communications.
See screencast Tutorial
Storify http://storify.com Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers.
Vipid http://ivipid.com/ Vipid
Cheer up your friends and family by sending them a video message with the quality of a professional studio. Just within a few minutes you can create your own video intro for many different occasions. Video hobbiest's: Design you own video. Now there is no need for studying complicated 3D programs and spending too much time on creating the design for your video. VipID will help you create your own opening intro or model your own video clip on a professional level.
Little Bird Tales http://www.littlebirdtales.com/ Little Bird Tales was created to help nurture children's creativity and imagination while simultaneously creating one of a kind childhood treasures that can easily be shared. We are dedicated to providing a safe web environment for children, free of advertising, merchandising and links to other sites.
Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family.
Digital Storytelling Apps for iDevices http://bit.ly/mlTxqT Digital Storytelling Apps for iDevices
These apps will help get you started with digital storytelling.
Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/04/03/storyboarding-pre-writing-activity/ Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity
The more we podcast and have our students create video clips or other digital storytelling projects, the more we need to teach storyboarding as part of the process.
Being able to pre-visualize how your story will unfold is becoming a vital skill to have for storytellers.
Tripline http://tripline.net/ Tripline
At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you to tell a story by putting places on a map. That's a very human activity that has been happening for thousands of years.
Digital Storytelling in a Web 2.0 World http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/fall-virtcon-2010/ Digital Storytelling in a Web 2.0 World
Presentation by Whitney Mihoulides at the Discovery Education online virtual conference 23 Oct 2010 #virtcon this is a recording of that session ... well worth watching ... watch online or download
Digital storytelling entails much more than video editing; it involves traditional storytelling elements. This session will walk through those essential storytelling elements, as well as, explore various Web 2.0 applications for delivering information in a way that our digital natives are accustomed.
Stories Come Alive http://storiescomealive.wikispaces.com/ Stories Come Alive
elcome to the Stories Come Alive Wiki. Here you will find many ideas for "digital story telling". Put away your paper and pencils and put technology at your fingertips. Your students will become more motivated and more excited about learning when you show them a variety of ways to present their topics or findings. The possibilities are endless.
The 'What If?' Question Genie http://www.brucevanpatter.com/what_if_questions.php The 'What If?' Question Genie
Kids,do you want ideas for writing a What If story? I, your genie, am here to serve you. Use the What If question you see above to start your own strange tale.
The Story Starter, Jr http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm The Story Starter, Jr
Write down your story starter line to start your story or...
click the button again for a different story starter.
ZooBurst http://www.zooburst.com/ ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
The Zimmer Twins http://www.zimmertwins.com/ The Zimmer Twins is a site devoted to kids and creative storytelling. Since 2005, the Zimmer Twins has invited children to create and share their own animated stories.
Today the site boasts an amazing group of Zimmer Fans — creative kids who continue to surprise and delight their peer audience with innovative movies. Using the Zimmer Twin's easy-to-use movie making tools members create their own serials, commercials, music videos and even reality shows. Since 2005 over one million Zimmer Twins movies have been created by kids from around the world.
Digital Storytelling in Science http://labbingoutloud.wikispaces.com/LOL+HOME Digital Storytelling in Science
Welcome to Mr. Olivas' 6th grade Science class where students are Labbing Out Loud (LOL!)! LOL is all about students sharing their content knowledge with the world. Students in this project went through the digital storytelling process to create a product which displays their knowledge of the technology and science standards and benchmarks at Shanghai American School
Storyrobe (iPod, iPhone,iPad App) http://www.storyrobe.com/storyrobe/Home.html Storyrobe is an exciting new digital storytelling application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Storyrobe lets you tell create digital stories using images and video from your camera or photo library.
You can use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos. Use Storyrobe to tell, share, and add to others stories creating a Storyrobe.
Download it from the app store.
Juxio http://www.juxio.com Juxio
Juxio includes Title, Module, Stream, Event, Text, Caption, Image Panel and Color Palette elements.
There are also Trays for your Images and Mobile Juxes (if you created Juxes with the Juxio iPhone app). You use these elements to create Juxes.
The application is based on design rules that determine dimensions, color order, etc. These rules allow you to create visually appealing Juxes without having to know anything about design.
3D story-building technology http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/newport/ 3D story-building technology
No prior knowledge of 3D visualization, animation, or rendering is needed to learn Project Newport quickly.
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators http://bit.ly/dAkpgg Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators .. free download ebook
This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling.
Make Me a Story : Podcast interview with Lisa C. Miller http://onceuponateacher.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-me-story.html Make Me a Story : Podcast with Lisa C. Miller "I had the pleasure to speak with Lisa Miller about her new book, so I took that opportunity to record a podcast (I've been wanting to try one for a while!)
We had a great conversation about meeting the needs of diverse learners while doing digital storytelling, class management and why you should give digital storytelling a try."
MapSkip http://www.mapskip.com MapSkip makes the world a canvas for our stories and photo.
It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show.
And many of our stories are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives - where we live, eat, work and have fun.
Join the MapSkip community in exploring the world through shared stories, pictures, videos and sound recordings about all the places in our lives.
Kizoa http://www.kizoa.com/ Kizoa
Create beautiful slideshows, with music and many effects, insert them into your blog or website.
| Creating slideshows | Photo editing|Photo sharing | Photo hosting | Photo sorting |
Storybird http://storybird.com/ Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and print.
Tell your stories without a middleman. Create teaching tools for students. Experiment and goof around.
Wixie (subscription service) http://www.wixie.com/wixie Wixie is an online authoring tool students can use to construct knowledge and communicate ideas.
Today’s learners need a tool that is accessible whenever and wherever they are ready to learn! Students can use Wixie’s paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to develop online storybooks and Flash animations, building essential 21st century skills.
ZooBurst : Augmented Reality 3D Pop-Up Books http://zooburst.com/ ZooBurst : Augmented Reality 3D Pop-Up Books
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books.
Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.
ZooBurst books are completely web-based and can be experienced using nothing more than your browser outfitted with the Adobe Flash plug-in. Books can be inspected from any angle from with a 3D space, and rotating around a book is as easy as dragging and dropping your mouse.
In addition, the author of a book can choose to make items "clickable," allowing you to learn more about individual characters within a story.
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom (Microsoft) http://bit.ly/b60qst Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Create movies and slide shows from photos and videos—right in your classroom. You can use either Windows Live Movie Maker or Photo Story.
Stage'D http://stagedproject.com/ Stage'D is the future of the creative storytelling experience! Stage'd breathes life into your characters, allows you to become a designer, writer, and director with the touch of a button!
You're the Director. Place your actors anywhere on stage, on their marks. Select from a library of expressive actions for them to perform. Your actors can be anyone, our costume racks have everything from Zombies to Little Red Riding Hood.
Write dialogue for your actors, you are not only the Director, you are also the Writer. Establish the atmosphere that your characters live and breathe in, by choosing the sets.
When you are done creating your scene send the link to all your friends and invite them to the show!
Dvolver http://dvolver.com/live/home.html Dvolver creates creativity tools.
Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page.
Screencast tutorial at http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/volver/
This could be used as a digital storytelling tool ... Choose a scene => Dialogue => Characters => Music => Titles => Watch => Share
Google video creation tool http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories Google video creation tool
Make your own Search Story video in minutes
All you need to do is type in your Google searches, pick some music and — presto! — you've got your very own Search Story to share with your friends or showcase on our YouTube channel.
Could be a fun digital storing telling tool ... there is not much control but it is fun and immediate.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.
On this website you can see examples of digital stories in many curriculum areas and subjects.
You will also find some rubrics and alignments to standards for the evaluation of digital stories
Tabblo http://www.tabblo.com/studio Tabblo ... "In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository and is known for its online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed."
Tabblo is a community of people passionate about rich content-creation tools for turning their photos and words into shareable online stories.
Come in and browse Tabblos that will amaze, amuse and delight you. Or, make one of your own.
Free eBook : Digital Storytelling in the Classroom http://bit.ly/cnYszq Free eBook : Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
The Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide is a free twenty-eight page ebook produced by Microsoft.
The guide outlines the basics of digital storytelling, offers ideas for digital storytelling projects for all grade levels, and provides examples of digital storytelling projects.
Microsoft's Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide also offers instruction for using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story in the classroom. http://bit.ly/a7N82Q
iPhone App : Storykit (free) http://www.appstorehq.com/storykit-iphone-69267/app iPhone App : Storykit
Create an electronic storybook. Make use of the little gaps in life - on the sofa after dinner, in the back seat of the car, or on a train - to do something creative together.
To create your story:
* Write some text.
* Illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album.
* Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects.
Story Something http://www.storysomething.com/ Put Your Child Into The Middle of A Story With Story Something
Story Something is an online destination for personalized and customized children’s stories.
Add the details about your children and family -- what do your kids call Mom? Dad? Grandma?
Tell us what kinds of stories your kids like.
Have new personalized stories based on your child's age and interests delivered to you automagically.