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Storytelling Examples

Page history last edited by Linda Zehr 11 years ago

 

ANIMOTO

(Tech Tuesday link for Animoto - from our "Top 10 Tools" workshop!)

We've done a lot of Animoto sessions, but there are so many uses...!

 

 

Use your own photos.

This was a high school project that accompanied a "how-to" essay:

Use Creative Commons licensed images.

I was very bad on this one, though; I didn't add attributions on the end. (That's a big no-no!):

Use art or images you've created.

This was a high school project, using a web site that allows you to create "flaming font," then saving the image of each title. Plus, the last slide is a Wordle image!

 

 

GLOGSTER | GLOGSTER EDU

(Tech Tuesday workshop link for Glogster)

Glogster really is an excellent tool for student storytelling projects (I created the one below as part of an instructional module on Elasticity of Demand); the only issue that has come up since our first workshop on Glogster is that the EDU version is no longer free. You can always use the basic (non-EDU) Glogster, but there is a lot posted on the public page that you may not be interested in seeing (angst-filled teenage girls are a large demographic...).

 

I have found that if you keep an eye out, you can get special offers on some of these tools -- right now, for example, Glogster EDU is running a $20/year special (for as many years as you want, up to a "perpetual" license -- good forever -- for $160). That's pretty good, given that it includes up to 200 student accounts for projects.

 

 


PREZI

(Tech Tuesday workshop link for Prezi)

As with any tool, Prezi can be a force for good in the quest for improved student learning . . . Maria Andersen is an excellent example of the good use of Prezi - here is one of her most popular Prezis: "Playing to Learn."

 

OR Prezi can be a force for evil . . . here is a good idea gone slightly awry (in our opinion, anyway): "A History of the World in 6 Glasses Timeline."

 

Here is a Prezi that I created -- the story of how I started using Digital Storytelling to teach economics:

 


SCREENR

(Tech Tuesday link for Screenr - from our "Top 10 Tools" workshop!)

While not strictly what one would consider a digital storytelling tool, it can certainly become a one, especially for novice storytellers, if used in conjunction with an image/set of images. Screenr would allow you to narrate as you navigate your image(s). In this example, I am actually narrating as I navigate a website, but you can use Screenr to narrate anything that you can see on your computer screen:


STORYBIRD

(Storybird Quick Glance Guide | YouTube video tutorial)

Create a digital storybook using illustrations from the Storybird library.

 


TIMETOAST

(Tech Tuesday workshop link for Timetoast)

There are a lot of timeline tools out there, but TimeToast was one of the first (and the first one we gave a workshop on), and is still a good tool.


VIDEOSCRIBE

(Sparkol VideoScribe tutorials - Basics)

Videoscribe lets you create an animated story -- think of the UPS "Whiteboard" commercials! As Sparkol says, "Often called Whiteboard animation or Fast Drawing, VideoScribe replicates a stop-motion capture style of drawing that's so popular on commercials... at a fraction of the cost & time."

 

 While the price tag on the desktop version is fairly hefty, the iPad app is currently $4.99 -- I used the iPad app to create this video. I get a decent graphics library to choose from for the illustrations, and also a good audio library of songs for background music:
This one I created on the desktop version (you can get a free 1-week trial). For the previous video, I selected an audio track from the VideoScribe library; for this one, I recorded myself doing the voiceover, then aligned the art with the narrative:

 

 


WIDEO

(What is Wideo? | Wideo YouTube tutorial videos | "How to" and Tips from the Wideo Blog page)

This is a fairly new tool, so the media library may not be as robust as some other tools (for example, there aren't many audio tracks to choose from at the moment). Here's what Free Technology for Teachers has to say:

 

"Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor then setting the sequence of animations. Each element can be re-used as many times as you like and the timing of the animation of each image can individually adjusted. Wideo's stock elements include text, cartoons, and drawings. You can also upload your own images to use in your videos."

 


MOVIEMAKER

(Tech Tuesday workshop link for Windows MovieMaker)


XTRANORMAL

("Using xtranormal" Slideshare presentation from Marisa Constantinides | "Create Animated videos using Xtranormal" handout from
Miami University Regionals E-Learning & Educational Technology)

 

"Xtranormal provides a cast of characters and computerized voices and sounds that you can combine to make your own animated film. New users get 300 xp (Xtranormal points) for free--about enough to make a 30-second movie. Once those are used up, you need to buy more." (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose State University).

 

 

 


INFOGRAPHICS

("Infogr.am - Getting Started" handout from University of Southern California, Annenberg) 

 

Visual.ly (a major source of many popular infographics) defines an infographic as "data visualizations that present complex information quickly and clearly. Think of maps, signs, and charts used by statisticians or computer scientists: Wherever you have deep data presented in visual shorthand, you've got an infographic."

 

  • This video may be a little long, but it provides an EXCELLENT tutorial of two infographic creation tools, easel.ly and infogr.am:

 

Creating infographics | screencast tutorial from School Library Journal on Vimeo.

 

  • Here is an infogr.am sample that I was able to create, using data of my own:

 

 

  • Or, instead of an entire Infographic, you can use infogr.am to create just a single chart:

 

 

 


 

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