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Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights. Tell your story now digitally. - Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association

Tools and resources for digital storytelling

Create a box full of text, video, audio, photos to explain what you know. Digital storytelling.

This is just the coolest cartoon creator site: Great for digital storytelling or icebreakers.....

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

The future of presentations?

Now that more and more classrooms are publishing student work for digital storytelling, podcasting, or through wikis and blogs it is becoming increasingly critical students follow the copyright and fair use guidelines. To help you and your students, I've created another freebie post - free images and sounds for student projects. Yes, there are multiple websites out there for public domain images and sounds, but I tried to pull those that are safe for student searching. You will find glorious photo landscapes, character illustrations of fairy tale characters, tornado sound effects, and more.

50 ways to tell a digital story

A simple comic strip builder with support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Latin. Finished strips can either be printed or sent via email to the teacher. Great for specific language or literacy activities.

Educational Software | Teaching with Comics | Appears to offer a great deal of flexibility in creating characters. 30 day free trial but then paid accounts allowing for 40 students.