Digital+Storytelling

===Digital storytelling builds language, reading, comprehension, and creativity. It quickly engages students and gives them a meaningful modality to creative and publish written, audio, and visual compositions.===

Engaging Learners through Digital Storytelling: 40+ Resources & Tips
A great place to start with digital storytelling - 40+ Resources and Tips

A Hero’s Journey for the 21st Century --- Storytelling for the 21st Century
@http://www.edutopia.org/blog/heros-journey-21st-century-betty-ray

Film-making techniques
http://mswitten.wikispaces.com/Film-making+Techniques

[|Meograph Opens Four Dimensional Storytelling to Everyone]
Meograph provides tools for creating map-based and timeline-based narrated stories. When you watch a Meograph story (click hereto watch one about women's rights in the USA) you will notice that it is very similar to a watching a narrated Google Earth tour. That is because it is based on the Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plug-in. As the story plays you can stop it to explore additional content in the forms of videos, texts, and images. Meograph offers a nice way to create narrated map-based and timeline-based stories.

@Comics in the Classroom
There is no shortage of tools for creating comics available to students. Regardless of which comic creation tool you choose to have students use, the ideas for using comics in your classroom are the same. Here are ten ways that your students can use comics in your classroom.

[|LittleBirdTales] – [|www.littlebirdtales.com] - is a site where you can upload your drawings and record your voice for each picture to create your story.

[|Vocaroo] – vocaroo.com - lets you record our voice and send it to other via email or you can get the embed code and put it on your website.

[|CrazyTalk] - [] -let you make your pictures talk. You can add emotions and you can use text-to-speech form.

[|StoryBird] - storybird.com - is a collaborative storytelling tool. Two or more people create their stories by writing the text and adding pictures. You can share it with others.

You can create your own comic on [|Mashon] – [|www.mashon.com/spore/creator] - by adding text, pictures, videos and audio.

[|ComicBrush] – [|www.comicbrush.com] - lets you create your own comics by using your drawing, photos and ready to use artwork. You can publish it and share with others.

[|Vuvox] – [|www.vuvox.com] - is a site where you can mix, create and blend your videos, photos and music into rich personal expressions.

[|Heekya] – [|www.heekya.net] - is a social storytelling platform that lets you create, share and discover your stories.

[|Scratch] – scratch.mit.edu - allows you to create your own interactive stories, animations and share your creations on web.

[|Tabblo] – app.tabblo,com/studio - lets you make your pictures talk.

[|SketchSwap] – [|www.sketchswap.com] - lets you draw a picture and when you finish, you can see somebody else’s drawing.

[|Plurk] – [|www.plurk.com] - is a site where you can showcase the events of your life on a timeline.

[|Zinepal] – [|www.zinepal.com/create] - lets you create printable PDFs and e-books from any online content.

[|WittyComics] – [|www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php] - allows you to create comic strips. [|StripCreator] – [|www.stripcreator.com/make.php] - is a similar site.

[|SuperHerosSquad] - [] - lets you to create a comic book using heroes.

You can create time lines using [|TimeRime] – [|www.timerime.com] - and [|MyTimeLines] – [|www.mytimeiines.net/create-a-timeline].

[|Privnote] – [|www.privnote.com] - lets you to create notes that will self-destruct themselves after being read.

You can turn your Flickr photos into visually stunning presentations with [|Picswievr] – [|www.picswievr.com].

[|CropMom] - [] - lets you create your online scrapbooks.

You can make and send greeting cards with your own voice using [|VoxCards] –voxcards.myvox.com.

[|Skywrite] – [|www.skywrite.me] - allows you to write your message on sky.

[|PhotoSnack] – [|www.photosnack.com] - is a site where you can create professional photo slide shows.

You can write your own story, add an existing or illustrate one with [|Colla-O-Write] - [].

[|Linoit] – en.linoit.com - lets you leave sticky notes to existing web pages.

You can create your own stop motion animation on [|ClayAnimator] – [|www.clayanimator.com] - or you can try [|Fluxtime]. – [|www.fluxtime.com/animae.php].