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There's no "right" way to author your about me page. Some read like resumes, and others read like fun stories. Designers have the skills to add a little (or a big) artistic flair to their blogs' autobiographies, but you don't need to be a designer to be creative. Most pages at a minimum include the author's name, purpose for creating a website, and links to the author's other online content. It's all about presentation.

Digital Storytelling Resources for Educators This is a collection of resources to help educators create powerful digital stories. Explore the examples to better understand the ways people are taking the ancient art of storytelling to new and exciting levels with powerful digital tools.

In this workshop you will: * Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. * And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use. * Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

Teens who are refugees from war tell their stories

What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation

FluxTime Studio is free - you can create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards to friends and family. Paid account adds Save and organise your work. FluxTime clipart and animation can be reused as components, you can build collections of clipart in your own style to quickly animate and tell a story. Share clipart and animation with other animators, use the graphical mail system to collaborate. E-mail animation clips as e-cards to people who have no FluxTime Studio account. Show animation clips in the FluxTime Animation Gallery where they can be seen by a global audience, and embed them in your own website or blog. School membership includes a teacher account and administration panel to manage student accounts.

A tool for generating story ideas

post includes a good list and evaluation of cartoon generator sites

Cartoons provide the visual representation of a good sentence, a juxtaposition, a pun, a witty interpretation. A cartoon is a good use of Multiple Intelligences. Using a cartoon format so that the scholars can extrapolate the meaning of a poem, a short story, a play, a novel is just one more way we can help our scholars express themselves. A cartoon can augment the essay or other method we ask our scholars use to demonstrate their learning.

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share

create a free account to create flash story books using collections of images from contributing artists. Books can be marked public or private, and linked to, but not embedded, in other web pages.

from NCS-Tech Picture Book Maker is a super-simple, super-flexible, super-easy tool for creating … picture books! The interface is intuitive, it loads fast, and there are many, many different story elements that can be brought into each book. It would probably help for a teacher (and students!) to go through the tool in advance to see what elements they want to include, to make sure they have what they need. From there, simple storyboarding in advance should be all that's needed to develop a high quality, PRINTABLE, finished book!

"Leeman's July 9, 2014, Edublogger post pointed to a number of valuable sources of free images. Yet I'm wondering whether this resource wouldn't survive and possibly even grow if it were to provide seed content for a broad collective endeavour. Some parallels that spring to mind are Levine's 50+ web ways to tell a story wiki (http://50ways.wikispaces.com/50Contribute), and Tom Barrett's interesting ways crowd-sourcing endeavours with Google (http://edte.ch/blog/?page_id=424)." Another example is the iPhone Apps for the World Languages Teacher collection started by Isabelle Jones.

Following the news article, there are "Tips from Bob Steele, a retired UBC professor of art education, for parents or caregivers on using art as a tool for developing a child's literacy" (Drawing for learning, deck).

thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for the tip

interesting site shared by Larry Ferlazzo

50 ways to tell a story using web tools

Convert text to images. Fantastic

I agree! You can try it with short poems, with lists of words -basically any kind of text but the site says it seems to work better with shorter texts. At the time I tried it there was no saving option; on the other hand, each photo is linked to its original source so it leads to a very nice tour and could possibly be turned into something else, like a game

Key Digital Storytelling Web Sites

A Whole New Way to Appreciate Great Literature! Plot and illustrate the book on a google map