StorytellingTools

**What is digital storytelling?**
//"Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games)//. ([|Wikipedia])
 * 50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo fabulous list of tools and examples!) A must see!
 * [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Larry Ferlazzo's Best Digital Storytelling Resources]
 * [|The Digital Narrative: Telling Your Story]
 * [|Digital Directors Guild]
 * Alec Couros Digital Storytelling Resources
 * [|Digital Storytelling Resources] (EdTechTeacherNing)
 * NECC LibrarySmackdown Resources
 * [|Jeri Hurd's Film Studies Page]
 * [|Mashable's 150 Online Video Tools]
 * [|Digital Storytelling Association]
 * [|Marco Torres' FlickSchool]
 * Digital Quill Digital storytelling resources for educators
 * [|DigiTales]
 * [|TechHead Stories]
 * [|Guide to Film Language]
 * [|Tapping into Media] (Michelle Jeske, Library Journal)
 * [|Digital Storytelling Cookbook]
 * [|Memory's Voices: A Guide to Digital Storytelling].
 * [|The Elements of Digital Storytelling].
 * [|Digital Storytelling] Resources (Helen Barrett)
 * [|Web 2.0 Storytelling]
 * [|Stories for Change]

**Tools**

 * [|VoiceThread]
 * VoiceThread for Education Wiki
 * [|VoiceThread Digital Library]
 * German Art Project
 * [|Hamlet Remixed]
 * [|What a piece of work is man] (Josh)


 * [|Get Thee to a Nunnery] (Nick)


 * [|Exemplary Digital Stories from Kansas, Oklahoma](Wes Fryer)
 * [|Emily's Silent Movie]
 * Spanish 5 Myths and Legends
 * Spanish 4 Experiencias
 * AP Spanish Scary Stories
 * [|Global Studies VoiceThreads] (private)
 * Ms. Fusarelli's 20s and 30s Museum
 * [|Grandparents' Day]
 * [|Color Poems]
 * [|Lindero Loves Books]
 * [|Digitally Speaking]
 * [|Animoto] (create music videos)
 * [|It's about equity]
 * [|Springfield Montage]
 * [|Animoto for Education]
 * [|Animoto Case Studies]
 * [|Animoto Video Poems] (Simply Teaching)
 * [|How to Use Animoto]

**Glogster**
[|Glogster for Education]



**Other very cool tools:**

 * [|My StoryMaker] Flash-based interactive story development platform([|The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)]
 * [|RockYou.com] (cool slide shows)
 * [|PrimaryAccess] (U. Virginia's tool for integrating primary source documents into comic, slideshow, and movie-making)
 * [|PhotoShow]
 * [|Creaza]
 * [|Masher - create free online video, photo and music mashups]
 * [|Doink] (draw, animate, collaborate)
 * [|Capzles] (photo slide shows with music and sound)
 * [|Frames]
 * [|Samanimation] (From Tufts, a stop-action video creation tool for download)
 * [|xtimeline] (collaborative timelining tool)
 * [|ScrapBlog] (online scrapbook production)
 * [|MixBook] (create a photobook online)
 * [|MeMoov]
 * [|OurStory]
 * [|Slide.com]
 * [|Sophie Project]
 * [|Storybird]
 * [|280Slides] (create and share presentations)
 * [|PhotoPeach]
 * [|FlickrPoet]
 * [|OneTrueMedia]
 * [|authorSTREAM] (share slideshows with media)
 * [|Moonk] (converts your slides to Flash)
 * [|Domo Animate] (by GoAnimate for younger children)
 * [|Photostory] (free Microsoft download for PCs)
 * [|Tikatok] (Kids write, illustrate, and publish their own books)
 * [|ShowBeyond]
 * [|Stupeflix]
 * [|vuvox]
 * [|Shutterfly Storytelling] and [|Shutterfly]
 * [|Prezi (cool slide presentation strategy)>]
 * [|PeKay] (create digital storybooks for younger children)
 * [|Myth and Legend Creator]
 * [|Historic Tale Construction Kit]
 * [|BigUniverse] (create ebooks)
 * [|JingProject] (for screen casting)
 * [|Plick] (store slides and add audio too)
 * [|SmileBox] (slideshows, scrapbooks, etc.)
 * [|Mogulus] (broadcast live on your desktop)
 * [|Storybird] (collaborative storytelling inspired by art)
 * [|Telavision]
 * [|Gizmoz Widgets] (animate images and make answering machine messages)
 * [|Kerpoof] make pictures, cards, movies
 * [|Sketchcast] (record your writing or drawing)
 * [|SlideBoom] (add media to PowerPoint and share)
 * [|Yodio] (add voice to images from computer or phone)
 * [|National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker] (make a custom nation flick with animal clips and pics)
 * Prezi (zooming presentation tool)
 * [|xtranormal.com](flexible animation tool--text-to-speech, multi-lingual, camera angles)

Handy production tools

 * [|CuePrompter] Free online teleprompter
 * [|Online Stopwatch]
 * [|DVD Flick] (Convert video to DVD)
 * [|MovieClipBiz] Teleprompter
 * [|FreeTeleprompter.com]
 * [|Jaycut.com] (web-based film editor)

Library PSAs

 * [|James Bond parody]
 * [|Lewis urges students to return books]

[|Find more videos like this on //springfieldvideo//]

Cartoon makers and animators

 * Cartoon Generators (much more stuff)
 * [|GoAnimate] (create truly animated cartoon stories, includes sound and special effects)
 * [|HMS Library Orientation]
 * GoAnimate.com**: HMS Library by SaintJenn

Like it? Create your own at [|**GoAnimate.com**]. It's free and fun! Examples:
 * [|Power Library]
 * [|Speech Balloon Tutorial]
 * [|Lost Library Books]
 * [|Bitstrips: Comic Maker]
 * [|Gizmoz Widgets] (animate images and make answering machine messages)
 * [|Creaza]
 * [|Piki Kids]
 * [|Kerpoof]
 * [|Pixton for Schools]
 * [|Blabberize] make any image talk
 * [|ToonDoo] (cartoon generator)
 * [|Makebeliefscomix.com]
 * [|Comiqs]
 * [|Pikikids]
 * [|Bubblr] (make comics from pics posted on Flickr)
 * [|GoAnimate]
 * [|ScriptBuddy]
 * [|ComicLife] (download free trial)

Background
Examples:
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Elements of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Apple Video Journalism]
 * [|Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories]
 * [|David Jakes][| on Digital Storytelling]
 * [|iCan Film Festival]
 * [|Jeri Hurd's Film Studies Page]
 * [|Reading Olympics]
 * [|GreatBookStories] (digital storytelling about books)
 * [|BBC Telling Lives]
 * [|StoryKeepers' Gallery]
 * [|Booktalks Online]
 * [|Nancy Keane's Podcasts]
 * [|iCan Film Festival]
 * [|Parents]

ebooks for Children

 * [|The Baldwin Online Children's International Literature Project] -- Classic children's literature (search button on left navigation bar)
 * [|International Children's Digital Library] -- Search for books
 * [|Storyline] (books read by Screen Actors Guild Members)
 * [|StoryPlace] preschool library
 * [|BigUniverse (Read create and share children's books)>]
 * [|Free Children's Stories]