Digital+Storytelling

Digital Storytelling is simply telling a story in a digital format. It combines your written story with **//music, video, images, text// //and audio narration//** to create a digital story. You can take any combination of those items or all of them to create an amazing product. Students could //create// a **personal narrative, a short story, a summary, instructions, a persuasive commercial, a historical movie, a biography, or many other creations**. The best product that I have found that allows you to easily create with all types of media is iMovie.

[|Educational Uses and Examples]

**Project Timeline:** **Day 1-2 Research** **Day 2-3 Storyboard** **Day 3-4 Produce your movie** - finding photos, videos, music and putting them together with your narration in iMovie or Web 2.0 application.

Media Resources

 [|Animoto]allows you intertwine music, video, images, but not narration. You will need a password.  [|Blabberize]combines your audio to an image, giving life to a picture. [|Fluxtime] is a simple animation creator. [|Kerpoof] allows you to choose a storyline to create a book. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|LuLu.com] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Photopeach] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 70%;">allows you to create a slideshow of your pics, text, and their music libary. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Storybird] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 70%;">allows you to create a storybook with actual illustrators' artwork. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;"><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: #000000; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> [|Storyjumper] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 70%;">is a place to create stories combining text, graphics as well as your photos. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">[|Xtranormal] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 70%;">is place to make characters come to life, giving them speech and movement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Web 2.0 Digital Storytelling Applications **