This app goes with the FREE service provided by littlebirdtales.com. Students can create stories with their own artwork and audio recordings either from an app or on the web. The completed tales can be downloaded as either a PDF or mp4 with audio.
This is a great app for elementary aged students. They can practice telling a story by using the visual prompts. It records their narration into the app to play back later.
Now that ScribblePress isn't free, this is a great alternative for elementary digital storytelling. Little Story Maker lets students incorporate images from the photo roll as well as record their own audio with their stories - all for FREE.
Another great digital storytelling app, there is a free version as well as an enhanced service. With the free app, you can create and share stories with images and audio straight from your mobile device
This app, intended as a way for parents to create narrated bedtime stories for their children, could be a great digital storytelling tool for a broader audience. Students can create a movie that incorporates clay-mation figures and their own narration. It's Free and has potential.
This list comes from Teacher Reboot Camp. The suggested apps provide multiple ways for students to interact with various aspects of stories: plot, characters, setting, etc.
Though intended for the iPhone, this app could work on an iPad. It allows you to quickly and easily create a story by taking pictures. If you have a 3G enabled device, it also will geotag the camera roll. Could be great for field trips.
Though not free ($1.99), this is almost like an entry level screencasting app where students draw and then tell the story about their drawing. Completed projects can be shared.
This is an interesting app that seems to be a cross between Fotobabble and Animoto. The idea is that you can record ambient sound while taking pictures in order to create a short video. Could be an interesting way to document field trips or create a digital story.
Free "for a limited time", this app quickly lets you add speech bubbles and other shapes to photos. This could be a great tool for quickly creating help files, digital stories, or simple comics.
Though this version of the app doesn't have as many features, it's free! With an iPhone or iPad, students can create time lapse recordings so as to improve observational skills, document a laboratory, or create a digital story.
In addition to being able to use the Fotopedia Reporter from the web, there's now an app. Choose from thousands of public domain images to create and share digital stories.
We use VoiceThread in a lot of our EdTechTeacher workshops as it is completely web based and now includes an iPad app. As a tool, it can create digital stories, be used for foreign language exercises, or support the creation of collaborative study aids. This library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects.
Scribble Press (FREE) is a book creation platform that allows students to both write and illustrate their own stories. Final products can be downloaded to iBooks or ordered as a hard copy.