Digital storytelling is a modern form of storytelling that uses digital tools and multimedia elements to craft and convey narratives. It blends traditional storytelling with digital technologies, allowing stories to be told through various digital formats, including videos, podcasts, blogs, social media, interactive websites, and multimedia presentations.
Here are popular online resources to teach about digital storytelling (click here for updates to list):
- Adobe Creative Cloud Express–digital stories that blend images and audio into a video
- Adobe Voice–Show your story; free
- Bluster–word matching game develops vocabulary and word understanding for school-aged children (app)
- Book Creator
- Book Writer--write books on an iPad; view in iBooks (fee) (app)
- Comic Book!(app)
- Create a story
- Draw a Stickman–draw the main character of your story; the site turns it into a choose-your-own-adventure story, asking you to add detail. (app)
- Newspapers, posters, comics—learn to create
- Pixton–use their storytelling layout (picture at top, text at bottom)
- Puppet Pals – Create simple animated stories with puppets and even yourself!
- Shutterfly Photostory–self-published student books (app)
- StoryBird—-storytelling with art–beautiful
- Storyboard That–use their storytelling layout (picture at top, text at bottom)
- StoryJumper–build a book
- Sutori–use a variety of multimedia; fee/free accounts
- VoiceThread (app)
- Write About This–writing prompts for students (app)
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
That is a great list of digital story telling tools. I’ve need to pick up on a couple of these.
Thanks, Thomas. They cover the gamut. I like giving students choices.