Digital+Storytelling

Digital storytelling appeals to students as this is the technology they are using outside of the class. This Digital Native Generation is a generation of content creators so if we meld technology with curriculum, studens will deliver creative projects!

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Comic Life
Comic Life is a creative software program created by [|plasq.com] that you can use it in many ways with your students. Check out the [|Comic Life Tutorial] created by Surrey teacher Gareth Poon http://sd36imlexamples.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/ComicLife%20Tutorial.pdf [|Tech Ed: How to use Comic Life in the Classroom] Tech Ed Help Teacher Kevin Amboe's site with SD36 teachers' examples of how they use technology in the classroom

English, French, Socials and Science teachers are using Comic Life here at our school and this is one page of life story that an ESL student did for her English class in September:

Google Earth
Kevin Amboe, the elementary Technology helping teacher in SD36 shows how you can use Google Earth and literature together in a powerful way.[|Google Lit Trips] shows you how to turn literature into an engaging road trip. Project on novel [|//Mice and Men//] from Jerome Burg US educator (creator of Google Lit Trips: )

Make Beliefs Comix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ MakebeliefsComix is perhaps a site that would be best for the younger grades and it is limited to only 3 frame cartoons. I tried to print my cartoon but it would not work..perhaps it is a mac thing. However, the site has good writer prompts for story ideas and students can click on the character face and change its emotion. With a Mac, you can capture the image you want (Apple/shift/4), create a png file to your desktop and transfer it into ComicLife.

Voice Thread
http://voicethread.com/share/61467/ [|VoiceThread] is an amazing online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. Source: VoiceThread 4 Educators Wiki VoiceThread is free for teachers but if they want to add on their students to a secure K-12 network then they have to pay either 10 dollars to be on the network or $60 dollars to have a whole class on the network. More info at [|Ed.VoiceThread].

Browse through some [|examples of educational VoiceThreads] and see how students are using it to create stories, build understanding, and post their artwork. This site is like doing a gallery walk of students' projects but students can use a variety of ways to comment on another student's work and then they can have a dialogue about it. Click on the image above and see a VoiceThread made by a teacher and see how she uses art to get students to practice prepositional phrases. She uses the virtual marker to circle objects in the painting and make language visual for students. ESL can view this Voicethread several times to get the concept before they compose their posting in writing or in spoken form. View this VoiceThread of using [|web 2.0] in education.

http://www.glogster.com/
 * Make interactive posters and mix in images, music and video.Students can share their posters Move beyond the traditional poster project!**

http://edu.glogster.com/gloggers/
 * You can register up to 200 students and have a closed learning environment.**

http://www.imagechef.com/
 * Customize photos and clipart and add them to projects**

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Carmen Agra Deedy, the Cuban-American writer and storyteller, tells the story about her childhood living with her embarrassing Cuban mother.
Caution: At the beginning of the story she uses a swear word. Teachers can present powerful storytellers to students to inspire them to tell their own life story.

Digital Storytelling Examples from SD36 and PDF tutorials from Gareth Poon, a SD #36 elementary teacher librarian.
http://sd36imlexamples.wikispaces.com/Digital+Story+Telling