Web 2.0 tools

StoryboardThat

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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:

Holes

To kill a Mockingbird

Of mice and men

Romeo and Juliet

Cowbird – a digital storytelling community

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The Cowbird etiquette asks of it’s community:

Be decent, Be humble, Be yourself, Be legal.

This is a digital storytelling community that invites you to share, add, dedicate and love the stories that you and many others are writing and telling.

Authors are invited to write, add audio, photos and other files to  stories.  Add places, dates and tags to make stories dynamic and current.

You can also ‘sprout’, comment or ‘love’ a story.

 

 

 

An example of a quick story written by me on a Sunday afternoon:

Digital storytelling

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A whole new world of digital story telling awaits us…

Try some of these!

Digital storytelling tools.

Search Thinglink and Cowbird for an example of digital tools on this blog.

storysports

 

 

 

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.