Digital+Storytelling+Examples

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**Animoto**
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2013 MAAP Winter Conference 2013 Tech Fair Promo Video All the broken pieces Civil Rights Presentation Hillsboro Elementary The hunger games [|Le Petit Prince] Kindergarten Pumpkin Seed Project What is functional notation?

And here is a project description and rubric to create an animoto video based on The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

Animoto has an education account.

**Blabberize**
media type="custom" key="9030798" [|Blabberizing about planets] - the student researched the planet and then narrated from first person Using blabberize to introduce a research project

Blubbr
Use YouTube videos to create quizzes. No account required to play the quiz. media type="custom" key="22426012" Explore the blubbrs tagged as education in the directory.

**Glogster **
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Glogster has an EDU service Browse the Glogs

This [|handout] will walk you through some of the key features of Glogster

How can Glogster be used in the classroom? Here are some examples of how teachers are using Glogster in their classes:

[|All About Me Project (Spanish)] Note that students can include their own voices! Costa Rica A different way to do a country report The Grapes of Wrath Green Tea Benefits Native American Art & Line

Read more: Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom [|Historical Timelines with Glogster EDU]

Go Animate
The Merchant of Venice:

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Prezi
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Great Jazz Bassists and Their Influence Through the Ages: media type="custom" key="9036114"

The Arab Israeli Conflict media type="custom" key="9036124"

Social Media Discussion Board Presentation media type="custom" key="9036140"

Playing to Learn Prezi

Explore more prezis

Storybird
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ToonDoo
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**Voicethread**
A voicethread could be as simple as one image: media type="custom" key="9035942"

It can be used to give voice to images, or merge poetry and photography: media type="custom" key="9030818"

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Browse the voicethreads. Voicethread has an edu account

Digital storytelling with the ability to have text, audio, video, or doodle commentary on each slide. You must have a VoiceThread account in order to create or comment.

You can set preferences to allow others to comment as well. [|VoiceThread] is an interesting, easy to use web-based environment for digital storytelling and there is an [|education portal].

[|Langwitches]describes how she used it with her students and how to get started.

Other Examples
 * Elementary Pumpkin Seed Project
 * Spanish example - [|La familia] and [|a story about a horse].
 * Chinese - [|student example in Chinese,] a [|student sample about the zodiac animals], this [|example] has a teacher record a speech sample and the students repeat and record and here students can hear [|colors].
 * French - a simple use for [|French vocabulary on professions]
 * Even Kindergarten students can use VoiceThread
 * Read more about how educators are using VoiceThread - there are many examples here!

and [|this tutorial] is well done.

Like VoiceThread? Here is a [|VoiceThread Ning] you could consider joining!

[|Think VoiceThreads] is a wiki created by educators on the PBwiki platform - great ideas there too!

VoiceThread in Education is a presentation with many examples and ideas.

**Voki**
media type="custom" key="9030822" Examples: High School book talk vokis Middle School Math examples Vokis in science using the text to speech Words of encouragement to students via Voki Wonderful world of Voki prezi with embedded student examples

Here is a page with instructions on how to create a voki (without registering for an account) and submitting that informatoin via a form to the teacher for subsequent embedding. This project was for middle school language arts, where students had the avatar speak their poems. Voki can also be useful for English language learners.

Voki has a Voki for Education area

Xtranormal
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Several examples linked one teacher's experience Several examples of Aristotle's poetics

Watch movies at Xtranormal's website or YouTube channel to get an idea of the product. Can be made in the web-based environment or in STATE (download required)

EDU portal available.