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Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools
Go beyond poster presentations and PowerPoint to create meaningful student-generated multimedia-rich projects to demonstrate learning plus how to assess them!

Today will be a hands-on experience with many different tools - you will need to pick and choose where to spend your creating time!

===Why incorporate digital storytelling and digital presentations?===
 * Provide a variety of media for students to demonstrate what they know and understandCan make accommodations for different learners and learning styles
 * Build technology skills
 * Develop communication skills
 * Demonstrate the ability to synthesize across information and media

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Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools
Digital Storytelling is conveying a story from within a digital environment. A presentation, on the other hand, may simply share information.

Jason Ohler has fantastic classroom-related digital storytelling resources.

Thought questions on Jason Ohler's website: 1. How is storytelling related to literacy? 2. How is art related to storytelling? 3. What are DAOW, media literacy, and media fluency? 4. What are some different kinds of stories? 5. Look at the examples - what do you notice?

7 elements of a story (Tutorial) Adapted from StoryCenter.org: 1. Point of View - what is your point? What is the goal? 2. Dramatic Question - the action, tension, central desire... 3. Emotional Content or paradigm - inspirational, love, loneliness, friendship... 4. Gift of your voice - your audio recording (practice and relax, be conversational) 5. Power of soundtrack - music, sound effects, your own lyrical narration (watch copyright) 6. Economy - the sequence of events, images, text - (keep it simple) 7. Pacing - the rhythm, planned and telling pauses, starts and stops Perhaps you prefer a visual representation of the above information?
 * So what is a story? (and really, many of the elements below can apply to a presentation too)**

Effective digital storytelling and presentations
1. Write the story / gather information, synthesize, write 2. Storyboard the image ideas and organize the content (Printable Paper has storyboards) 3. Create the story in a digital environment (college media, organize, write script, create) 4. Share with others
 * Process (very simplified)**

[|animoto.com] This tool analyzes an uploaded set of images, video and text to creates a music video. Very easy to create elegant picture shows. Blubbr allows you to use video, interspersing questions in a multiple choice quiz format after watching snippets. Domo animate create simple animations GoAnimate - create animations based on provided character sets, with music kerpoof - make drawings, movies, stories || Xtranormal Write a script, select characters, define their actions, identify camera angles to create a movie. Text to speech is computer-generated. || Little Bird Tales Use your own artwork and voice to make your storybook MapSkip Myths and Legends Create stories with culturally-rich backgrounds and characters [|Scrapblog] takes scrapbooking online. StorybirdCreate a book with art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Storyboard Generator allows you to storyboard. Create books at [|Tikatok] [|zooburst] Create a 3D popup book. || PreziThink of this as a linear presentation authored and shown within a 3D sphere of action. So there is depth and transitions to any direction available. || ComicMaster Creaza Cartoonist Make Beliefs Comixcreate comics Murku PikikidsUse your own photos to create a comic book style page [|Pixton]allows you to create your own comics, has a [|portal for schools]and is partnered with multiple interactive whiteboard vendors. Toondoocreate comics ||  || GlogsterCreate multimedia poster projects that incorporate text, photos, video, graphics. There is a page on this wiki dedicated to glogster with helpful details. ||  || Narrable allows you to add voice narration to a series of photos. [|PhotoPeach]: Create a lively and vivid slideshow by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo SlideStory allows you to add your voice to photos in a slideshow format. VoicethreadUse images to create an electronic slide show - what is unique is the ability for others to provide comments and feedback via text, audio, video. ||  || Download: Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 ||   ||
 * Selected Digital Environments Overview and Examples**
 * **Easy (single frame/element)** || **Medium** || **Complex** ||
 * Blabberize A single photo to which you give voice narration - and identify a moving mouth which adds animation to your blabber || **Animations and Video**
 * fotobabble Add audio to a photo || **"Books", Scrapbooks, Sequential Stories**
 * PicLits add text to an image || **Comic Generators**
 * Voki A single talking avatar which can use your voice or text to speech || **Multimedia Posters**
 * yodio Create a narration to accompany a photo || **Multimedia Slideshows**
 * visit the media page for a variety of image-editing tools ||  ||   ||
 * || Create **timelines** at [|Dipity] ||  ||
 * Audioboo - audio only ||  ||   ||
 * || Download: Microsoft Photo Story 3
 * DoppleMe - create a custom avatar for use in other projects ||  ||   ||
 * EyeJot - video mail ||  ||   ||

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
 * More Storytelling environments:**

Find music to use at Jamendo and RoyaltyFreeMusic.com

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Additional digital storytelling resources: Edutopia - How to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom Web 2.0 Storytelling overviewby Bryan Alexander will push your thinking about what is defined as a story and where it can be published.

Lindsey Olivares - Senior Thesis - Ringling College of Art and Design - //Anchored//: media type="youtube" key="lPyjGkZqwUc" height="385" width="640"