Julie Greller's blog A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet features some great content for teachers. Posts are sorted by subject and grade level, and there's also a link to some free ebooks. In this post, she offers a list of links to resources for digital storytelling.
Information
Center for Digital Storytelling
Creative Educator- 4 articles on digital storytelling
Digital Directors Guild- assists educators with their digital storytelling projects
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom- from Microsoft Education
Digital Storytelling in Language Arts
Digital Storytelling in the Science and Math Classroom
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators- 120 page pamphlet (download) written by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)
The Elements in Digital Storytelling
The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Integrating Digital Storytelling in Your Class Resources
Making Stopmotion Movies- information on how to create stopmotion and claymation movies
Tech4Learning Blog- lots of wonderful posts regarding ways to tell stories, including claymation
100+ Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves part I
100+ Digital Storytelling Tools...part II
Aniboom- animation studio
Animoto- create video slide shows
Big Universe- for younger children Blurb- prices start at $10.95 (small book) discounts on quantity orders
BookemonBoomWriter- students write a book together; class gets one free copy (free shipping)
Chogger- create comics
ClassikTV- create a movie by adding subtitles to old movie scenes
Creaza- suite of creative tools, including cartoonist, movie editor, audio editor and mindmaps
Digital Storytelling with the iPad
DigiTales- create 3-5 minute stories from these types: living memories, beyond words, itza wrap
Do Ink- create Flash-style animations using a "simple and friendly vector editor
Domo Animate- free animation website offers characters with dialogue, backdrops and special effects
Glogster- drag and drop text, images, audio, video drawings and more; premium edition has no ads
Google Search Stories- uses YouTube, so if your school blocks it you're out of luck
A Hotlist on Digital Storytelling
Juxio- interactive posters for the classroom
Kerpoof- make movies, cards, drawings,pictures, tell stories; for grades K-8; site also has lesson plans and teacher tools.
Lightning Bug -assists students in writing a story from finding an idea to finishing the story
Little Bird Tales- for very young children
Microsoft's Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
My eBook- create novels, comics, magazines, brochures
My Story Maker- for younger kids; interactive digital story creator
Myths and Legends- online digital storytelling site
Our Story- create a collaborative timeline
PicLits- students are given a picture with a list of keywords to inspire them to write a story about that picture
Picture Book Maker- create an online children's book
Pinball- helps students get started with ideas which are bounced around
Projeqt- visual storytelling
Shiddoni- create an imaginary world with animals
Simplebooklet- create online newsletters, presentations (education version)
Smilebox- mix photos, videos and music into a multimedia presentation
Stage'd- create animated comics
Storybird- "short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read and print
Storyboard Template-choice of different templates
Student Publishing- "Publish individual student stories or have them each contribute to a classbook."; resources for librarians, teachers and parents; many FREE projects.
ThumbScribes- online collaboration of poems, short stories, fiction, novellas
Tikatok- for younger children
Voice Thread- group conversations around images, documents, videos; Voice Thread in the Classroom.
Widbook- create, collaborate and share books
Xtranormal-create online movies using their characters who speak what you write for them; $$
ZooBurst-create a 3D pop-up book
