Digital Storytelling 4 Everyone

I just wanted to share a quick/simple course I created for Digital Storytelling, based on the inspiration from Shelly Terrell, Naomi Harm, and the Merton School District. This is designed specifically for all sorts of grade levels and can be used as a nice way to introduce this concept.

Please, feel free to use anyway you can and if you'd like to contact me about something more in-depth or detailed let me know.

Click here to engage in this wonderful 21st Century tool!!

Tessellation Creator is a wonderful new site that I found out about from Karen Ogen's excellent blog. I've always been a fan of tessellations ever since I taught how to make them using Appleworks 5.0 back in the day. However, I always wanted to be able to do this online and w/ Tessellation Creator now I can.



Give TC a try by clicking here.

Topmarks

Topmarks is a educational search engine and one of the better ones around, that I found out about from the amazing blog by Jonathan Wylie's, Education Technology Blog!! Not only can you search for excellent resources, but there are great links for whiteboard sites and educational games as well.

I highly recommend giving Topmarks a try by clicking here!!

Fuzzwich

Fuzzwich is a crazy fun site for digital storytelling that I just stumbled across thanks to two special educators, Ozge Karaoglu and Shelly Terrell. This is a site where a person selects their backgrounds, characters (where you can add your own face), and actions and then develops a story. I like to think of it as a simplified version of Alice Storytelling.

I highly recommend checking out Fuzzwich by clicking here!!

Sepia Town

Sepia Town is a search engine that looks for old pictures while implementing Google Maps. Not only can you search for images but you can upload them too. It kind of reminded me of a more polished version of HistoGrafica.

I highly recommend checking out Sepia Town by clicking here.



Thanks to Zarco English for the tip!!!

5 Card Flickr Draw

5 Card Flickr Draw is an interesting site that can be used for digital storytelling. The way this works is Flickr gives a person 5 pictures to choose from. Once the picture is chosen another 5 are shown until there are 5 pictures lined up. After that a person can share this story or start over.

I think this is a nice site for brainstorming and can really get those creative juices flowing to create a story that matches the pictures.

Give 5 Card Flickr Draw a try by clicking here.



I'd like to thank Kathleen McGeady and her excellent blog for the tip!!!

Sheppard Software

Usually I don't do reviews of gaming sites unless they are very good and Sheppard Software did is just that. This is a great site to use for educational games on any number of subjects. Also, it is nice for a wide variety of ages especially the youngsters at PreK-K.



Give Sheppard Software a try by clicking here.