This easy to use digital storytelling website allows students to create a storyboard, or cartoon style set of cells.
The template provides backgrounds, characters and text/speech bubbles.
Here is an example of a Storyboard That piece, completed in about 2 mins!!
StoryboardThat – Party in the park
There are also teacher guides and lesson plans, including for these texts:
I am looking at the way students are engaging with stories and storytelling in the online environment.
I will list sites, games and digital media that I have come across. If you are familiar with any of these, please leave a comment this medium, and other online story related content you are involved with.
Some sites I have heard about:
Telltale games – The walking dead
I would love to hear:
Thanks!
Mrs. Ferguson
A whole new world of digital story telling awaits us…
Try some of these!
Search Thinglink and Cowbird for an example of digital tools on this blog.
Story Sports™ takes the concept of a writing workshop and turns it into a competitive sport.
It’s a little like theatre sports, except that the emphasis is on writing skills. Students compete in quick-fire games that test their creativity, imagination, and story-writing skills to win prizes.
The concept was developed after Brian noticed that students who would not normally express any interest in writing workshops, would participate enthusiastically when the same workshop was presented as a competitive sport.
Rookie is an online magazine for girls. It invites you to add your own written material.
It’s founder and editor is a 16 year old girl, Tavi Gevinson. She began blogging at 11, commenting on a wide range of topics including fashion and world affairs.
She felt “there wasn’t a magazine for teenage girls that respected its readers intelligence”…and so Rookie was established.
Check it out here:
