WHY Digital Storytelling?

Digital stories push students to become creators of content, rather than just consumers. Weaving together images, music, text, and voice, digital stories can be created in all content areas and at all grade levels while incorporating the 21st century skills of creating, communicating, and collaborating.

Great digital stories:

• Are personal
• Begin with the story/script
• Are concise
• Use readily-available source materials
• Include universal story elements
• Involve collaboration at a variety of levels

8 Steps to Digital Storytelling

Resources

Start with an Idea

• Enchanted Learning-Paragraph Graphic Organizer
• ReadWriteThink-Webbing Tool

Research/Explore/Learn

• ReadWriteThink-NoteTaker
• EdTechTeacher – Mind Mapping
• Bubbl.us
• BibMe

Write/Script

• ReadWriteThink – Essay Map
• Visuwords
• Wordnik

Storyboard/Plan

• ReadWriteThink-StoryMap
• StoryKeepers – Storyboarding

Gather and Create Images, Audio and Video

• EdTechTeacher – Citing the Web
• EdTechTeacher – Understanding Copyright & Fair Use
• EdTechTeacher – Public Domain Image
• EdTechTeacher – Understanding Creative Commons
• Wikimedia Commons
• Commonsense Media
• Fair Use
• Audacity
• Garageband

Put It All Together

• Animoto
• Little Bird Tales
• iMovie
• YouTubeEditor

Share

• Digitales Scoring Guides
• Rubistar

Reflection and Feedback

• Commonsense Media on Digital Citizenship: Blogs, comment threads,etc
• Edmodo
• Google Form
• GoogleForm to Copy