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animate a story

easy animation!

Kerpoof is another site that is suitable to use with young and very young learners. It's a creative way to tell stories, create animated movies and greeting cards.

"http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_1.html "

Digital Storytelling: My Top 10 Lessons Learned

The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) is an international non-profit training, project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Our focus is on building partnerships with community, educational, and business institutions to develop large-scale initiatives in health, social services, education, historic and cultural preservation, community development, human rights, and environmental justice arenas, using methods and principles adapted from our original Digital Storytelling Workshop.

We're building Storybird in the open, collaborating with artists and enthusiasts to produce fun, simple tools to make short, visual stories. Here are a couple of ways to create a Storybird. We'll be adding more soon.

Perhaps my favourite classroom tool of the past year is My StoryMaker from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh. It's great fun and has never failed to entertain me or my students - always the sign of a good activity. Most importantly, it really gets students thinking about language and focuses them on producing creative, quality work.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

The whole kit and caboodle on digital story telling! wow

Another linear presentation tool, has some neat tricks to it. Good with older students.

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.

"Join us on 10.10.10 for an unprecedented event. Every Nation, 24 hours, and You. On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10), across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the largest participatory media event in history. Founded in 2008, ONE DAY ON EARTH is creating an online community, shared archive, and film. Together, we will showcase the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occur in one day. We invite you to join our international community of thousands of filmmakers, hundreds of schools, and dozens of non-profits, and contribute to this unique global mosaic. Through the One Day on Earth platform, we will establish a community that not only watches, but participates."

Looks good.

Make an online story with your kids! Great for grade 1-4 or even older!

Just what it says, if you are taking lots of pics in the class.....have a look on here! And share any success stories you have!

lots of audio books for free

Literacy and story writing opportunities using the web.

The elements we describe in the pages that follow give you a great deal to consider in constructing your story. We emphasize our storytelling process in a group setting because we believe that most of us do not just read a book and do the work. If you are reading this disassociated from some group process, we strongly suggest you go find at least one collaborator or fellow storyteller. Storytelling is meant to be a collaborative art. It is much more realistic this way, and much more fun.