Excellent resource for examples of digital storytelling in various subject areas. It includes Web 2.0 suggestions for creating digital stories and lots of other resources.
This site is awesome! The New York Public Library has digitized some of their holdings and put them up. They're arranged thematically and can provide great primary sources for many different classes and disciplines.
For this creative projects you have you may want to direct students to this site. It has a suite of free software that can enhance presentations and even pave the way toward digital storytelling (if that's where you're looking to go).
Karen Blumberg's Notes from TSETC. She covers sessions on building a PLN, using web 2.0 tools, researching on the web, teaching with games, using an iPad, using social media, going global, and using digital storytelling.
With Showbeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites
Bill Ferriter knew his sixth-grade language arts and social studies students spent time online outside of class, surfing the Web and instant messaging. So when he discovered he could engage his kids online in a collaborative, multimedia slide show called a VoiceThread, he decided to see if he could use it to, as he puts it, "steal some of their online minutes."