'Warmups and Wordle - and - 'More Warmups'
If you've not experimented with digital media stories before, try a warmup exercise with your students first!
Easy to use, a great resource for building digital stories.
Don't think of it simply as an online diary - blogging has become so much more.
Encourage students to build their story in their own way.
Allows students to build stories quickly - with a host of online applications freely available and easy to use.
A photo story application with a difference.
Regular diary entries are a great way to tell a story, and improve your writing.
Endlessly open to reinvention, email is vastly underutilised as a story tool!
Story building through forums is a revealing way to work with narrative.
Very simple, requires only an email address and a creative mind.
Google Docs and Zoho are Word applications you can use in a browser.
You'll have a class of experts in 10 mins.
Recording stories is a wonderful way of introducing oral storytelling to a class.
Interactive slideshows online.
You are almost certain to have numerous peer coaches in your class that can assist with SMS story building!
Use simple sketches with overlaid audio to create a story.
Build wonderful storybooks with amazing illistrations.
Interactive timelines are great for story building, no really!
Aa uniquely interactive space
Make a speaking avatar - and have it relay a story.
Write the script, and get your animated characters to act it out.
Teaching Method
There are numerous ways to introduce digital storytelling into a classroom.
Of course, writing and telling stories using digital media brings up a host of questions that relate to narrative and structure, how you approach a lesson and maneuver around technical problems. So we created a teacher handout (.doc file, 116kb) that covers many of these considerations.
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