We created a Digital Storytelling Resource Kit to help you get started using this exciting process to help students build important communication skills and make connections to the content they are learning in your classroom.
The Digital Storytelling Resource Kit includes:
• articles on digital storytelling in the classroom,
• digital storytelling lessons plans from across the curriculum,
• exciting student samples you can use to set expectations and get students on board!
Use the Digital Storytelling Resource Kit to start implementing this exciting process in your classroom.
Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
posted about the Global Teddy Bears project on August 29th, Global Project- Teddy Bears Around the World in its 4th Year, today she is telling how we can all participate, Why and How to Participate in Teddy Bears Around The World Project?
Please check out all the information as well as the blog for the project
http://www.langwitches.org/blog/travel/teddybearsaroundtheworld/
Even though most think of this as a elementary project, I really think it could work at any level. It just might require thinking a little outsidf
Here’s an intriguing project that lets you create stories by linking together Twitter posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and more. It’s currently in beta format.
This makes my head explode as I think about how a product like this impacts how students look at authenticity of sources, among other things …CLICK HERE
Storify demo from Burt Herman on Vimeo.
Curate the real-time Web with stor.i.fy
This article suggests 10 ways that educators can use visual media in classroom lessons. Using a digital camera, students can take photos and video as part of original public-service announcements, create multimedia book reports on Glogster or organize a fictional crime-scene investigation.
Read the full story, CLICK HERE, Tech & Learning
Just stumbled into a good site about Using the iPad for Digital Storytelling. Isn’t that how it always works, you are looking for one thing and find something else. The site has some great resources and could be quite useful.
“Digital Storytelling can transform your students’ writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills. The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers.
