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DIGITAL STORYTELLING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

TOOLS TO CREATE DIGITAL STORIES

LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD

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DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning.

If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it. And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know!

BOOKS ON THE TOPIC

• Frazel: Digital storytelling guide for educators
• Ohler: Digital storytelling in the classroom
• Miller: Teaching writing through digital storytelling
• Porter: Digitales- The art of telling digital stories

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DIGITAL STORYTELLING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Presentation resources

Digital storytelling and the standards

1. Hodgson: Digital storytelling and the CCSS
2. Fawley: Digital storytelling and the CCSS
3. KCTE: Promoting literacy through technology
4. Trent: Digital storytelling
5. NAF: Digital storytelling
6. DST, social studies, & the CCSS
7. Common Core tech standards by grade
8. The TPACK Framework
9. Schrock: Digital storytelling and the CCSS

Assessment and Research

1. University of Houston sample rubric
2. Kamehameha Schools (HI) rubric
3. Scott County Schools (KY) rubric
4. Digital storytelling contest judging rubric
5. Ohler: Assessment traits
6. Hung: PBL & digital storytelling research
7. Barrett: Digital storytelling research
8. Maddin: Using TPCK with digital storytelling
9. Digital storytelling rubrics : UMBC
10. Digital storytelling rubric (UIUC Libraries)
11. Digital storytelling rubric (UC-Denver)
12. ​Digital storytelling rubric (DSTCO)
13. Schrock rubric for digital storytelling
14. Schrock critical evaluation survey: Digital stories

Great resources from smart people

1. Jakes: Digital storytelling resources
2. Porter: iPad storytelling apps
3. Porter: Steps to create a digital story
4. Diehl: Digital storytelling wiki
5. Couros: Digital storytelling
6. Morra: Step-by-step digital storytelling
7. Goodloe: Digital storytelling overview
8. Frazel: Digital storytelling
9. Dorman: Digital storytelling
10. Ohler: Art and digital storytelling
11. Wegmann: Digital storytelling
12. Grice: Digital storytelling with the iPad
13. For the love of a story: PD with digital stories
14. Recording of Discovery Education Webinar (2013)

Frazel: ISTE DST Interview (2010)

Tools to support digital storytelling

1. 60 sites for digital storytelling tools & info
2. Microsoft: Digital storytelling guide
3. Yodio: Digital storytelling with your phone
4. Digital storytelling tools for the iPad
5. Digital storytelling tools
6. 17 free digital storytelling apps for the iPad
7. Morra: Step-by-step digital storytelling
8. Dorman: Igniting student creativity
9. Levine: 50 Web 2.0 tools to tell a story
10. Meograph online tool
11. Digital storytelling apps and sites
12. Pixar's 22 rules for telling a story
13. Buck Institute's PBL forms for teachers
14. Buck Institute's PBL forms for students
15. Using the iPad for literacy learning
16. 30 Hands Mobile for storyboarding
17. Digital storytelling sites and apps
18. Digital storytelling with iPads
19. Adobe: Introduction to storyboarding

Classroom ideas and practices

1. Educational uses of digital storytelling (UH)
2. Best digital storytelling examples/resources
3. Digital storytelling with the iPad: Book trailers
4. Shelly Terrell's digital storytelling wiki
5. EGUSD digital storytelling
6. Trask: overview of digital storytelling
7. Porter: Digital storytelling across the curriculum
8. Davidson/Porter: The art of digital storytelling
9. Digital storytelling tutorial
10. Engaging readers and writers with storytelling
11. Integrating digital storytelling into the classroom
12. How to create the perfect PSA
13. Storytelling: A tool for teaching/learning
14. Writer's workshop poetry lesson with the iPad
15. Tucker: Digital storytelling
16. Ortega: Benefits of digital storytelling
17. Tech4Learning: Digital storytelling ideas
18. Mantz: Digital storytelling ideas
19. Brennan: Digital storytelling and video resources
20. Fryer: Cell phone digital storytelling w/ Narrable
21. Exploring the use of the iPad for literacy learning
22. Digital storytelling in language arts
23. DST in the math and science classroom
24. Get started with digital storytelling
25. The art of digital storytelling
26. Take 6: Elements of good digital storytelling
27. Digital storytelling across the curriculum
28. Schrock's digital storytelling Padlet
29. Morra: 8 steps to great digital storytelling
30. Tech4Learning's DST across the curriculum resources
31. Classroom projects for photos and narration
32. How to use Scratch for digital storytelling
33. Frazel: High school DST point of view project  (lesson)
34. Ideas for digital stories in the classroom
35. LOC teacher handout for analyzing a primary source
36. Eight classic digital storytelling techniques for presentations
37. ​How digital storytelling improves learning
38. DST :Extending the potential for struggling writers
39. Using digital storytelling in the classroom
40. 15 visual video projects to do with your students
41. Telling stories with photos
42. How to use 6-word stories as writing prompts

Digital storytelling books

1. Frazel: Digital storytelling guide for educators
2. Frazel: Kindle version (Excerpt)
3. Ohler: Digital storytelling in the classroom
4. Ohler: Kindle version
5. Porter: DigiTales-The art of telling digital stories
6. Porter: Kindle version
7. Teehan: Digital storytelling in the classroom
8. Pixar's 22 rules for storytelling

Digital storytelling samples

1. Scott County (KY) elementary samples
2. Maricopa Community College samples
3. Tech4Learning student samples
4. Telling a digital story using interviews
5. DigitalStories@UMBC
6. The Digital Story Telling Contest Online (DSTCO)

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DIGITAL STORYTELLING TOOLS

Tools for planning

• Amazon Storybuilder (Web 2.0)
• Bubbl.us (Web 2.0)
• Canva Storyboard Creator (Web 2.0)
• Celtx Shots (iPad)
• Graphio Lite (iOS)
• iBrainstorm (iOS)
• iBrainstorm Companion (iOS)
• Inkflow (iOS)
• Inspiration Maps (iOS)
• iMovie Trailer PDF storyboards
• iWork for iPad (iOS)
• Keynote (iOS)
• Kidspiration Maps Lite (iOS)
• Lucidchart for Education (Web.2.0)
• Mindjet Maps (iOS, Android)
• Mindmeister (iOS, Android)​
• Padlet (Web 2.0 | iOS | Chrome)
• Pages (iOS)
• Poppet Lite (iOS)
• Printable storyboard templates
• Skitch (iOS, Android)
• SpiderScribe (Web 2.0)
• Story Dice (iOS) (Android)
  
• Storyboard Generator (Web 2.0)
• Storyboarder (Android)

Tools for Producing

DRAWING TOOLS

• Autodesk Sketchbook (iOS | Android | Web 2.0 | Win | Mac)
• Drawing Pad (iOS) $
• Doodle Buddy (iOS)​
• Sketchpad (Web 2.0)
• Inkflow (iOS)
• Sumo Paint (Web 2.0)

IMAGE EDITING TOOLS

• Fotolr HD (iOS)
• PhotoPad by Zagg (iOS)
• BeFunky Photo Editor (iOS)
• Pixlr (Web 2.0)
• Pizap (Web 2.0)
• Aviary Photo Editor (iOS | Android)
• Picturizr (iOS, Android)
• Polarr (iOS, Android, Chrome, Web 2.0, BlackBerry)

AUDIO EDITING TOOLS

• Anchor (Web 2.0 | iOS | Android)
• Audacity software (Win, Mac, Linux)
• Audio Recorder (Android)
• iRig Recorder Free (iOS)
• Pocket WavePad HD (iOS | Android)
• Soundation Studio (Web 2.0)
• Vocaroo (Web 2.0)​

Tools for creating/hosting

• ACBya (Web 2.0)
• Adobe Spark Video (iOS | Web 2.0)
• Adobe Rush (iOS | Android)
• Anchor.fm podcast creator (iOS, Android, Web 2.0)
• Animoby (iOS, Android)
• Astrovid Video Editor (Android)
• audioBoom (Web 2.0, iOS, Android)
• Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard (iOS)
• bContext IWB (iOS)
• Buncee (Web 2.0 | iOS | Chrome)
• Canva (Web 2.0) (iOS)
• Clipular (Web 2.0)
• Clips (iOS)
• Collaaj (iOS)
• Digital Films (Web 2.0)
• easel.ly (Web 2.0) $
• Educreations IWB (iOS) (samples)
• Explain Everything (iOS) (Android) $
• Fakebook (Web 2.0)
• Flowboard (iOS)
• Fotobabble (iOS)
• Google Docs Story Builder (Web 2.0)
• Haiku Deck
• iMovie for the iPad (iOS)
• iStop Motion (iOS) $
• i Tell a Story (iOS) $
• iPadio (Web 2.0)
• iVisual Info Touch Lite (iOS)
• KnowRecorder (iOS) (Android)
• Lark (iOS)
• Lego Movie Maker (iOS)

• Lensoo Create (Android) (iOS)
• Little Bird Tales $ (iOS) (Web 2.0)
• myCreate (iOS) $
• Magisto (iOS, Android, Web 2.0)
• Meograph (Web 2.0)
• Moovly (Web 2.0)
• Our Story (iOS, Android)
• PicLits (Web 2.0)
• Piktochart (Web 2.0) $
• Pixntell (iOS)
• Playback (iOS)
• Plotagon (iOS)
• Powtoon (Web 2.0)
• PuppetPals (iOS)
• Replay (iOS)
• Screencast-o-matic (Chromebook)
• Screencast-o-matic (Web 2.0)
• Screencastify for Chrome/Chromebooks
• Scribble Press (iOS)
• Shadow Puppet EDU (iOS)
• Sharalike (iOS, Web 2.0)
• ShowMe app (samples)
• SlideStory (Web 2.0)
• SockPuppets (iOS)
• Sonic Pics (iOS)
• SpeakingPhoto (Web 2.0, iOS, Android)
• Steller (iOS)
• StoryCorps (iOS, Android)
• Storify (in the classroom) (Web 2.0)
• Storybird (Web 2.0)
• StoryJumper (Web 2.0)
• Storyrobe (iOS) $
• Sway (iOS | Win)
• TeleStory (iOS)
• Tellagami (iOS, Android)
• Toontastic (iOS)
• Toontastic, Jr. (iOS)
• Tumblr (iOS) (Android)
• UTGreat (iOS) (Android)
• Videolicious (iOS)
• Visme (Web 2.0)
• WeVideo (Web 2.0, Android)
• Wideo (Web 2.0)
• ZooBurst (Web 2.0, iOS for viewing)

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TELLING THE STORY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Recorded video from a presentation

Introduction and Research

1. The Hoffman Agency: The Return to Storytelling vs. Corporate Speak (used with permission) 
2. Leon Sandcastle video
3. BC Lions vending machine video
4. Derek Jeter video
5. The Song video
6. Lifehacker: The science of storytelling
7. One Spot: The science of storytelling infographic
8. Significant Objects project
9. Gladwell: The Tipping Point
10. WebVideoCrew: Video storytelling tips
11. Alexander: The New Digital Storytelling
12. Simmons: The Story Factor
13. Graduate class digital story list
14. Print from a YouTube video
15. The Story Behind the Science
16. Scientific storytelling image and article
17. Digital storytelling in social studies
18. Isabelle, Aaron D. Teaching science using stories: The storyline approach. Science Scope, 10/2007, v. 31 n.2 pp.16-25.
19. The Story Behind the Science
20. Univ. of Houston: Educational Uses of DST
21. Popcorn and Memory Retention article
22. Gum and Memory Retention article
23. PR Newswire: Storytelling and Press Releases
24. Denning, Stephen. Telling tales. Harvard Business Review. May 2004, Vol. 82:5, pp. 122-129.
25. TED Talk Takeaways
26. Visual storytelling is timeless and mighty
27. ​10 visual storytelling rules every marketer should know
28. Yorke and Brennan: Integrating stories into your teaching

Examples and Ideas

1. The Avery Bunch
2. Elapsed Time 1a
3. Elapsed Time 1b
   
4. Elapsed Time 2
5. The Avery Bunch
6. Teacher-created PSA
7. Vibrations video
8. The Periodic Table Song
9. Engineering 101
10. Study.com: Dante's Inferno
11. Mission: Gum
12. Brick Flicks: Lego video
    
13. On an Underground Railroad
    
14. NCTE: Character blogging
15. Real-time Titanic Project
16. #tweetingpompeii
    
17. Flickr: Five frame stories
18. Twister Tales
19. Print from a YouTube video
20. Photosynthesis Meograph
21. Toontastic: Bubonic Plague
22. Schrock: iPad Transformation
23. Educreations Art Story
24. Brick Flicks Lego Movies
25. Tell a Story in Five Frames: Worm Attack
    
26. Google Story
    
27. Welcome to Iowa
28. Welcome to Arkansas
29. Welcome to South Dakota
30. iMovie Trailer PDF storyboards

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2012 Discovery Education Day of Discovery: Dean Shareski (pt. 1)

2012 Discovery Education Day of Discovery: Dean Shareski (pt.2)

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Sample digital story introduction to a unit of study.

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Created: 12/01/2012
Updated: 11/02/2022
Kathy Schrock
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