Digital+Storytelling+1

Storytelling is an ancient art form of teaching and we should adapt and integrate this technique to support 21st century learning skills.

In this session we will focus on available tools and how to choose the right one for a project. The criteria for picking these tools were simple. The tools had to be free for educators to use.

Where possible tools are cross platform, but if you are a PC or Mac user we will show the equivalents for platform specific software. The tools discussed in this workshop are by all means not the only ones available. Every day new sites, programs, and new ideas are popping up on the web.

All of them seem to bring something new and exciting to the table for enhancing and simplifying our digital storytelling opportunities and capabilities.

There is also a Digital Storytelling Session 2 which looks at other tools than those shown in this session, you don not need to attend session 1 to attend session 2.

Links from session:

[|Voices from the Cape] - ABC Message Stick episode about the power of using digital story telling to engage students and tell stories

[|www.makebeliefscomix.com] [|www.toondoo.com] [|www.wordle.net/create] [|www.maps.google.com] [|www.mixbook.com] [|www.slide.com] [|www.animoto.com] [|www.voicethread.com] [|www.goanimate.com]

for more digital story telling links, add me 'mackas' to your [|delicious] account