Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling @ The University of Houston

We will be exploring VoiceThread and Animoto as 2 tools that you and/or your students can use to create a digital story. A digital story allows students to explore and research a topic, portray someones life, present an important event in history in the form of a STORY.

A digital story may include any or some of the following:

Text
Images
Audio
Motion
Video
Music

7 Elements of Digital Storytelling Resource

How do you or your students begin?

Sample Digital Story Rubric

Alignment to Standards

Storyboard Template
Examples of Digital Stories:

Animoto: Technology Engineering at DSMS



VoiceThread: View this link and comment MLK Voices Digital Story.

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Language Arts-To Kill a Mockingbird

Social Studies-The Gettysburg Address

Math and Architecture

Reflections-The Computer and I

What is your story?

What story can your students create and share?

Your PLN: Personal Learning Network=Spirograph

Article: The PLN Spirograph

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February 6, 2010 Google, Pictures & Twitter

This week we will revisit uploading and downloading Word, Powerpoint and Excel Documents on the web using Google Docs.

We will also explore how to share photos of classroom projects, plays or field trips on our web page. See links at the left side bar for Slide, Flickr and Picasa.

What is all the Twit about Twitter? We will investigate how Twitter can be used by you as a teacher to collaborate and social network with fellow educators and organizations. We will also discuss how this social networking tool can be used in your classroom.

As always, whatever we discover will be posted to your class wiki or blog.