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Shared writing across 10 classrooms who build stories together on a collaborative wiki.

Provides creative lesson plans, teacher accounts, classroom ideas to use with Kerpoof's multimedia software. Kids can create original artwork, animated movies, stories, cards and more.

Collaborative storyelling--Make stories in minutes. Free Class accounts to manage students without emails, create assignments, and build beautiful libraries.

Make paperback storybooks and professionally typed, hardback classbooks. Make free books from every student's story. Make a free book for the classroom where every student is an author and illustrator of a page in a classbook.

Excellent quality. Good vairety. Library card number needed to access.

I LOVE listening to audio books. No chore or drive is quite so painful while listening to a good story. Books Should Be Free is a website that provides free downloads of books in the public domain. It's easy to browse by genre and there are even sections for children and teens.

Interview with an author about why to do digital storytelling in schools.

This website allows for writing projects where multiple authors can write a book or short story together. I think this would be a wonderful team project to work on in groups of 3-4 (maybe more).

I think you want webook.com, not weebook.com.

This website allows you to create stories with your photos and words. I think this website would be a great tool for students to use when documenting their work on a project (possible science fair project). Additionally, Tabblo would be a great tool for teachers to use to document all of their students' work. It could be used to show all projects in a classroom to parents, or it could used to show a child's progression throughout the year.

This website allows for younger students to be able to create their own digital stories. It is simple and easy to use. Just upload your video and images and then add the audio. Another bonus is that this website is free.

bubble.us is a mental mapping website. This could be used for unit planning for teachers, or a tool for reading comprehension for students. They could show how one event in a story was connect to another. This site is free and done not require a subscription. You can start right away, but you do have the option to create an account.

Evernote is a free, downloadable, organizer tool. On the site there are stories and tips for how this tool can be used. One video talk about how students are not just reading from a book and taking notes on paper, but they are looking up more information on the web and typing notes on the computer. This organizer allows students, or others using this tool, to organize and compile their thoughts and resources. Whether they are pulling in a teachers PowerPoint, adding website that were helpful for understanding the topic, their own notes, scanned or uploaded, the students have a place where they can put everything together.

This site is all data sets that are easily searched as well as easy to export data sets from. These data offer a rich learning opportunity for interesting mathematical thinking within the real world context.

Using this technology, students can experience literature by building the geographical journey that takes place in a story. They can work with this platform that integrates Google Earth in a way that can enhance literature learning engagement.

Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments, hosts collaborative projects in which students investigate their local environments and share that information with other students from around the country. Pdf image and word stories highlight student accomplishment. In the gallery there's even one entry from a first grade class in Japan.