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 Consider Digital Storytelling as the 21st Century version of the age-old art of storytelling with a twist: digital tools now make it possible for anyone to create a story and share it with the world.

Digital Storytelling Kit from Tech4Learning. This may require a free registration. This can be downloaded as a pdf file and has articles discussing digital storytelling, examples, and lesson plans.

"To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science"

infographic on storytelling built in the format of the periodic table

This wiki provides resources,links to tutorials, and tools for digital storytelling. It also provides instructions for uploading student and teacher digital stories to the SBISD Wiki

"The iPad (or iPod touch or iPhone) with its apps opens many new opportunities for learning. At the same time, it offers a slightly different wrapper for older learning opportunities. Both can be worthwhile, but it would be a shame if teachers missed the former for the latter. And, if past experience and research is any indication, educators are much more likely to co-opt the new technology to accomplish the status quo. This activity is designed to help teachers think through both opportunities and to categorize those apps that lend themselves to either or both. Teachers will start by exploring a variety of apps, some that lend themselves to learning content such as math facts or spelling words and others that can be used in open ended content creation such as storytelling or photography. Then, teachers will examine a set of lessons that use these apps. Finally, teachers will use a "taxonomy" such as Bloom's Taxonomy, SAMR, LoTi, ETaP, Prensky, etc. and attempt to classify/categorize where the apps fall. Most likely teachers will need to contextualize the app to a particular use/activity. Ideally, teachers will realize that in most cases it is not the app itself, but the use that detrmines where it falls and that the apps belong in multiple places. "

Assorted storybook creation tools and apps

Themeefy is a cool new way to discover, curate, compile and publish knowledge from the web to create your personal Theme magazine.

A charming short video about the power of books, well worth watching. Nominated for an Academy Award.

This site contains myths, folklore, fairy tales, legends, and sagas from a wide variety of countries. Sites are annotated with notes about specific topics covered.

All videos found at this site were created by SBISD students participating in the Target Tech in Texas grant. Browse the SBISD Student Stories Wiki for examples of student voice through video.

A suite of tools including an audio and movie maker/editor, a cartoon maker, mindmapping and many others