Scriveners' Trappings

Use Storyboard before the writing process...

Storybird is also wonderful for creating student writing portfolios and documenting/ assessing student writing samples.

Free and easy tool for creating multimedia stories and presentations, and sharing them with anyone. Upload your photos, add audio, video or text and publish the story.

You can sign up with your Facebook account or your email.

Educators have an option to pay a membership fee ($4.99 /mo. or $50 /yr.) to create 50 student accounts which are protected from the public. Before you decide on this step, there is a 30-day free trial.

This looks like an awesome student storytelling platform.

Very interesting and a very simple tool for those who just want to tell stories, alone or with a group, by quickly adding pictures, video, and voiceover to narrate through the presentation. Looks like a pretty new site and it has both free and paid accounts.

Has great possibilities: would need to check out the educator costs

"What's the story?"  A good thinking starter for how "story" works in the world.

Could this 65 slide deck have saved me plowing through Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thosand Faces? Not really, but its fun and flies by providing ADD insight into the basis of all stories. 

Do I need to add more?

Και "storyjumper" επίσης.

A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers.

Here some of the pluses of digital storytelling in education :

- It develops creativity and critical thinking Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds 

- It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message. 

- It helps students explore  the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others.

- It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning 

- It develops students communicative skills It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience. 

- It fosters students sense of individuality It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identityStudents creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications

This guy does a great job of using Facebook to share powerful stories.  He is worth liking so that you can get some good stories in your newsfeed.  I don't read them all, but I like the ones that I have read over the past few months.

Ken