Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring

Digital storytelling is applicable to learners of all ages, in all content areas. In this session we will view different examples of digital storytelling across the curriculum, and explore free tools which are available to get started creating and publishing digital stories on your classroom website. Digital stories can take many forms. In the context of this session, digital stories which include digital images/photographs and audio narration will be explored, using the website VoiceThread. Options for creating digital stories in software programs like PhotoStory3 and iMovie will also be addressed.

Objectives:

The participant will:

explore and understand different uses for digital storytelling (with still images/photos and audio narration) in the classroom
learn about the website VoiceThread (which offers free acounts for educators as well as a commercial ed.voicethread.com version with individual student accounts) and how it can be used for collaborative digital storytelling projects
learn about other types of audio and video equipment helpful for digital storytelling
learn how other classroom teachers have and are using digital storytelling
learn where to access tutorials and additional resources helpful for classroom digital storytelling with VoiceThread and other tools

This session was shared on June 9, 2011, at the Fort Bend ISD Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. Presentation Slides are available via a Google Presentation.

Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring ‎(June 2011)‎

This session was shared on June 3, 2009, at the Oklahoma City Public Schools Tech Day. A Ustream archive of the presentation is available.

This session was shared on March 9, 2010 at the UCO Heartland eLearning Conference. Presentation Slides are available via a Google Presentation.

Digital Storytelling on a...Heartland eLearning 2010)

Examples

Lillie and John
Mother's Day Podcast 2009 (Sony UX-70 Recorder, free Gcast channel) - Inspired by Carol Anne McGuire
Go Green! Go Electric! (on YouTube, 1st place in the 2009 Earth Day FilmOnTheFly Cell Phone Video Contest)
Picture Book Reading (Recorded and shared with Ustream by 3rd grade teacher Jose Rodriguez, Los Angeles, CA)
Great Book Stories
The Dirty Thirties (cell phone recorded interview of a 90 year old Oklahoma panhandle resident)
Radio WillowWeb (Omaha, Nebraska)
Drew's First Book Review V-Cast (recorded with Ustream in Wellston, Oklahoma)

Digital Storytelling on a Shoestring

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