Digital+Storytelling

** [|Storybird] ** - Collaborative storytelling! Have students create stories they can share with friends and families. Use Storybird to spark ideas, illustrate vocabulary words, for creative writing, or just for fun! Have your whole class write a story to share with another class. The possibilities are endless.... 

[|VoiceThread] - A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

Zoo Burst Create your own cool 3D pop-up books! Paste in images and pair with your own text to tell a story.

[|Animoto] - A very cool Web 2.0 tool that analyzes your images, "feels your music” and customizes a video for you. It’s another way of making a slideshow/video except more with more special effects…and it’s all done for you. Add this to your digital storytelling kit.



Below are a few links to some good sites for copyright free music and images.

Need music for a project? Try these sites: soundzabound royaltyfreemusic Freeplay Music Free Music for Children FindSounds Sounddogs.com

For copyright friendly images try: Pics4Learning AP Images FreeFoto.com

For digital content pertaining to American History, try the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

The New York Public Library also has a photostream with some great photos!