4. Why story telling? Because stories define us as humans. why digital? because it's appealing, engaging and a lot of fun. Who doesn’t have a story to tell?? Digital media made it possible to combine picture, text, voice and illustrations to our stories. Storytelling is not new, it is an ancient practice that is a lot more fun now with the digital tools to which we have access.
5. Storykit Free app that allows our students to be creative and write their own stories. It allows students to draw, add their own illustrations or pictures + voice!
6. Free app that allows our students to give their illustrations life. By downloading their drawings to the app, they can make their characters mouth move and add their voices! Say what? Lite Blabberize has similar features as “Say What? Lite” but it is not an app. With blabberize you can add more than one mouth movement.
8. Voicethread Digital Storytelling 2009 Story Tools Angela’s Voicethread Estela’s Voicethread http://2teachis2touchlives4ever.posterous.com/voicethread-task-of-week-8
9. Other resources Voki = Students create their own characters and either add their voices to it or type and the program will say their text out loud with their choice of voice. Fotobabble = Upload our students illustration or pictures and they can add their voices. Comix = Create your own characters and write their thoughts in talking or thinking balloons.