Digital Stories with voice

Children from all across the world love stories, they enjoy listening to them and telling them. Now with 1:1 devices in classrooms  increasing technology access in the hands of students, why not integrate content, curriculum and great story-telling? Here are several apps and sites that allow you to best integrate this into your story-telling projects. 

Digital storytelling/Desktop Publishing & Animation

Digital storytelling, animation and Desktop Publishing incorporate a variety of digital media tools, while allowing students to tell a story or report on something they learned about. When students take in content and make it their own through telling a story, they obtain a deeper level of cognition. Students tell stories through video, audio, animation and or create publications for news and social media. Many of the digital images they create in the lessons above can be used in these lessons, as they can be shared media.

Lessons:

• All Kinds of Digital StoryTelling Lessons and ideas
• Use Pivot for “2D” Cell Animation
• Adobe Flash CS4 “Basics”
• DigiTales - Learn the Art of StoryTelling
• Character Scrapbook
• Book Talks or Trailers (Tons of other lessons too)
• Elements of Good Story Telling
• Entice Your Reader
• Students create a “tableau vivant” Photo Story 3 presentation of a short story here
• Kathy Schrock’s Guild to Everything

CCSS aligned lessons - linked Edex

• Animation Project
• Eat Your Veggies!
• Journalism Magazine Project
• Career Choices

Adobe Voice - Turn your story into an animated video with this app downloadable in the iTunes Store. Just import images or slides, add your voice and tell your story. 

VoiceThread App - Communicate, collaborate and connect with your peers, co-workers etc.

Thinglink - 

ThingLink for Teachers allows you to use interactive images as a new visual learning platform. You can create interactive lesson plans, calendars, and study books. Teachers can sign up students with a quick list import, arrange images into channels or projects, and use our mobile app for adding notes to images on field trips. The creative possibilities are endless! 

Story Board 

Easy to create picturesque stories in Storyboard-that.
Simple & Fun Interface: The storyboard uses dragging and dropping and is especially easy to customize; from coloring in your own character, to adding text, we have everything you need to get the story straight!

Detailed Image Library: Creating a beautiful story can be done with the use of our library of over 325 characters, 225 scenes, and over 45,000 images in search. If that still isn’t enough we offer another powerful tool; the ability to upload your own images!

Focus is on The Story: Your storyboard can be used as a graphic organizer to create a concise story. Prioritizing your story into a few cells uses critical thinking skills, an essential skill; creating logical story flow.

Tools: Storyboard That, Pixie, Wixie, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Voice, Storify, Voicethread, StoryMe, Adobe Edge Animate and Pivot Animator