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Great resource for storytelling and can be used at all grade levels. 

This article tells about a new model of storytelling, with active involvement of readers. The creator of this new art is Laura Fleming (@larfleming on Twitter), a library media specialist in a K-6 school in New Jersey, who is passionate about the intersection of storytelling and technology. She blogs at EdTech Insight. (Week 1, Link 1 for EdTech541)

A wonderful source for teachers on how-to, uses of, and just about anything you want to know about digital storytelling. It is especially useful for writing and social studies.

This is a blog that highlights innovative ideas. This page emphasizes digital storytelling projects they had students create to promote how amazing the books were that they read. They present their digital analysis of the book in VoiceThread so that other students can make comments and discuss the themes, characters, plots, or whatever they want to share about the book.

TESOL blog has a paragraph on digital story telling and has a helpful hint with a link to Language Experience Approach where it is recommended to write stories about the student's personal or shared experiences. It is recommended in the blog to use this personal approach to writing with digital storytelling.

An article on a digital storytelling strategy for technology integration based on the TPACK framework.

This is an article written by a novelist and game writer. She argues that games, or digital literature, are effective storytelling devices and gives a lot of good example of games that are bridging the gap between narrative and game mediums.

This is a great tool for students to work individually to research, report & respond to a particular topic. Projects can also be done collaboratively. You can integrate photos, videos, audio and more to share a story about ANYTHING!!

great online resources for creating eBooks

Children through Adult ELL story lesson advantages and advice.

Incredibly user friendly program to make digital stories.

I appreciate the example that John Brown lays out in his paper "Growing Up Digital". He speaks about the Xerox company sending in anthropologists to study how tech reps fix broken machines. They learned it is all about the communication and storytelling, never do reps use the manual. After developing an online presence for tech reps (CoP) to communicate, Xerox saves $100 million a year while the learning curve of the reps has grown by 300%. This is a great case study to get a better understanding of a CoP analyzed and at work today.

This site lets teachers, for free, set up unlimited student accounts and walks them through the creative writing process. Of course, teachers can also use the site to create digital books for their class.

An interesting web tool that lets you create an audio- narrated digital story

digital storytelling, language arts, web 2.0