Croak.it! So amazing I can't imagine life without it! Yay! I love you, Croak.it! You’re amazing! I heard about Croak.it a few months ago on #1stchat (a weekly conversation about 1st grade on Twitter every Sunday at 7:00 CST). Croak.it is a free website that allows the user to record 30 second audio clips. So what does this mean for education? In my class, I’ve loaded each iPad with the Croak.it app. Once they stop the recording they’re directed to the sharing screen… …and then email the link to me or copy it to embed in another location. Because each Croak.it recording has a personalized web address, it eliminates a lot of the “middleman” work I use to have to do as the teacher finding a home for students’ audio recordings. This has dramatically enhanced our use of QR codes in the classroom. This is tremendously helpful for differentiating instruction. We’re also using them to create book talks. I print out the QR code and students attach the code to the book they’re recommending. Scan the QR below to listen to a student book review:
Story Wheel Spin the wheel and land on an image. Now it's your turn to make up part of a story with that image. You'll have 30 seconds to record your voice as you add to the story. Your voice is played back with the images you spun. Each page of the story lists the speaker and shows the animated image that was spun. Photo Story The final free download version (3.0) includes the ability to randomly generate background music which is composed on the fly from a combination of themes and also includes basic photo editing and touchup features.[2] The last version of Photo Story (3.1) was included with the discontinued Microsoft Digital Image 2006. It restored the ability to burn a Video CD using the Sonic Burning engine. To burn CDs or DVDs from files generated by version 3.0, users may purchase Sonic MyDVD DVD burning software or the Sonic DVD for Photo Story 3 for Windows [3] plug in (which burns one DVD per Story). Third party tools, such as Media Coder, often do a very poor (low quality) job of converting Photo Story wmv files - Windows Movie Maker does a far better job of converting into an intermediate .avi format (although this will be some 30 times larger than the original wmv) which many DVD Authoring packages will accept as input. History[edit] Limitations[edit] Photo Story in pop culture[edit]
Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces Digital Storytelling - Handout Elevexempel: Robinson Sthlm Robinson är avslutat. Vill ni ta efter idén så går det såklart jättebra. Maila gärna sandra.wissting@gmail.com och berätta hur det går för dig och dina elever. Om Robinson Stockholms skärgård: Tävlingen äger rum långt ute i havsbandet, på de mycket små och karga öarna Innertärnan och Yttertärnan som hör till Svenska Högarna. 26 deltagare är uppdelade på två lag med 13 deltagare i varje. Livet i ytterskärgården är tufft. Klicka här>>Programledaren Robins sajt med uppdrag och Robinsonutmaningar Robinson är nu avslutat! Elevernas utvärderingar >> Följ deltagarnas äventyr på deras egna sidor: Bild från Skärgårdsstiftelsen
The 5 Levels of Digital Storytelling By kylemawer It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest blog post by James Taylor, who has been adapting gaming elements (such as leveling up) and applying them to digital storytelling. Thanks, James for a very interesting blog post and loads of great web links and resources which you’ll find near the end – Some of them we’re familiar with here at Digital play but we can’t wait to dip into all the others. Over to you James . . . When we think of introducing web-based tools into our classrooms, as teachers we often obsess over the technical side of things. We are not wrong to consider these things, whether we teach kids or adults. In this article, I will demonstrate how you can increase the levels of complexity both technically and linguistically in web-based storytelling by using tools that ask more of your students at each stage. Level One – Mad Libs Level One web-links
Strip Designer Be creative wherever you go. With Strip Designer you can create your own personal comic strip right on your iPhone or iPad. Add photos from your photo album or draw your own sketches. Apply simple image filters to increase the impact of photos, and add speech balloons Add advanced textual elements and stickers to get that genuine comic book feel. When you are done, save the resulting image to the iPhone's photo album, email it to friends and family or share it with Flickr, Facebook, or twitter. While you edit your comic you can freely zoom and pan to manipulate even small details. Templates Strip Designer includes more than 100 different layout templates that you can use to insert your photos in. You begin by picking a layout for each page, but the layout is easy to change after you have added text and photos. Photos Inserting photos is straight-forward. Once a photo has been inserted you can manipulate its appearance Filters Balloons Text Balloons are easy to add. Zooming and panning Preview