DIGITAL STORYTELLING - Advancing STRAND
Presenter: Sean Sweeney, Instructional Technology Specialist
This workshop is designed to advance participants thinking and comfort around the pedagogy and rationale for using digital storytelling apps in the classroom, as well as hands-on practice with exemplary tools. Participants will practice creating products with select tools and leave with a sense of key features and intermediate strategies in digital storytelling apps that support learning. In other words, the workshop will focus on fun, engaging tools that you can use to present content to students or ask them to "show what they know.”
agenda
The session will employ app demonstration along with examples and key ideas in integrating tools for curriculum goals. Hands-on work and Q/A will be provided throughout as we explore:
- Book Creation: Book Creator and Story Creator-employing feature analysis to select the best app for your project.
- Comics: Comics Head and Strip Designer-making curriculum visual and engaging.
- Video and Animation: Explanimation: Explain Everything, iMovie and Adobe Voice- using apps as part of a process
- App-Smashing: Combining Pic Collage with Tellagami, looking beyond this to other creative app combinations and problem solving
- Using Dropbox or Drive to collect and manage products.
- Copyright and Creative Commons issues, obtaining images for projects.
- Supporting Weblist
Apps to Download
Book Creator
This version of the app is free but, the $4.99 version is recommended. “The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on” (Book Creator, 2014). |
iBooks
"iBooks, is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages" (iBooks, 2014). |
Story Creator
"With Story Creator you can easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments" (Story Creator, 2014). |
Comics Head Lite & $3.99
"We all love to tell stories, share our experiences, comment on issues that affect us and tell our friends about places we visited. Comics Head enables you to do all of it in a visually compelling format - comics and photo journals. You needn't be an artist!" (Comics Head, 2014) |
Strip Designer - $2.99
"Impress your friends with your own personal comic strips, created on your iPad, iPhone or iPod using photos from your photo album or iPhone camera" (Strip Designer, 2014). |
Pic Collage
"Millions of people use Pic Collage to create quick photo memories with friends and family, or make poster-worthy collages of their favorite bands and brands. Add cool stickers, fun fonts, web images and Youtube videos!" (Pic Collage, 2014). |
iMovie - Free with new devices - $4.99
"iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips, with a beautifully streamlined interface and Multi-Touch gestures that let you enjoy your videos like never before. Browse your video library, quickly share favorite moments, and create beautiful HD movies and Hollywood-style trailers. And with iCloud, you can enjoy them in iMovie Theater on all your devices" (iMovie, 2014). |
Adobe Voice
"Adobe Voice helps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming — just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact" (Adobe Voice, 2014). |
Explain Everything - $2.99
"Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy, paste, clone, and lock any object added to the stage" (Explain Everything, 2014). |
Tallagami
"Animate your life! Download today! Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami. A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. It can be a fun way to tell a story. It can be a thank you message or a vacation postcard. It can be a birthday greeting, party invite or cool way to share photos. The possibilities are endless!" (Tellagami, 2014) |
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Google Drive
"Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Get going with up to 15GB of storage. Free" (Google Drive, 2014). |