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Digital Storytelling with Mobile Devices. Survival Tips for Digital Storytelling. “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.

Survival Tips for Digital Storytelling

Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind Throughout history, people have learned through stories. If you enjoyed this post, you may want to subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates or subscribe to the Teacher Reboot Camp free eNewsletter to receive resources like these and updates on free professional development events!

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Ebook Creation. Inspiring Writing. Image Sites. Mobile Learning Digital Storytelling Apps. Voicethread Resources. Digital Storytelling with Mobile Devices. Say Cheese! Photography Projects for Learners. Newsworthy! Learning as a Digital Reporter for a Class News Site. Quotes About Storytelling. Digital Journals: Getting Students to Blog, Research, and Curate. Creating Audio Tasks and Projects with Learners. 1, 2, 3 Action! Using Videography in the Classroom. Let's Create a Digital Book with Learners. Video Storytelling. Digital Storytelling. Engaging Learners through Digital Storytelling: 40+ Resources & Tips. DigitalStorytelling4Kids [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Sandbox. Sharing Stories: Powerful Lessons in Digital Storytelling GAETC. Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (eBook) StoryKeepers - home.

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Good News vs. Bad News. “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Good News vs. Bad News

This season has been ripe with Kurt Vonnegut releases, from the highly anticipated collection of his letters to his first and last works introduced by his daughter, shedding new light on the beloved author both as a complex character and a masterful storyteller. All the recent excitement reminded me of an old favorite, in which Vonnegut maps out the shapes of stories, with equal parts irreverence and perceptive insight, along the “G-I axis” of Good Fortune and Ill Fortune and the “B-E axis” of Beginning and Entropy. The Future Of Storytelling Is About To Get Wild. Guest author Kim Gaskins is the director of content development and lead writer for Latitude, an international research consultancy.

The Future Of Storytelling Is About To Get Wild

Many of us go about our lives constantly surrounded by screens, immersed in various "stories": movies, TV shows, books, plot-driven video games, news articles, advertising, and more. Whether we realize it or not, we're creating new behaviors, routines, mindsets, and expectations around what we watch, read or play—which in turn presents new challenges and opportunities for creators and marketers. In other words, while the fundamentals of good storytelling remain the same, technology is changing how stories can be told. Www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/storyboard_template.pdf. Book Creator Free.

Digital Storytelling Kit - Thank you! Ping Pong Story - Where Storytelling Meets Magic. English Language Learners and the Power of Personal Stories. We’ve asked Larry Ferlazzo, a prolific blogger and Twitter user who has written a recent book called “English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work,” to do a guest post for us today. More than five million children in the United States enter school each year speaking a language other than English.

That amount is expected to grow to 25% by the year 2025. 9 Web 2.0 Sites to Publish Student Work. Written by Mark Brumley Publish and Share Student Work Publishing educational technology enhanced content online, in eye-catching formats, is easier than ever.

9 Web 2.0 Sites to Publish Student Work

And, students love to publish their projects online and share with their family and friends. Use these easy-to-use web 2.0 sites to publish, share and celebrate student work. Lazoo: Squiggles! Interactive Animated Coloring Book. Video Dictionary: Vidtionary. Essential Web Resources - Creating Online Story Books. The Art Of Storytelling » Tell A Story. Get inspired by featured artwork from the Delaware Art Museum and write a story through the interactive Tell a Story activity. Look through the images below for a brief introduction on how this activity works, or click on the link below to begin telling your story. Launch the Tell a Story Activity 1) Choose an inspirational work of art First, select a work of art as the inspiration for your story. 2) Tell your story Next, you'll write a story to accompany the artwork.

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Visual storytelling: 14 tools for journalists. Credit: Image by TapiF on Flickr. Some rights reserved Over the past year here at Journalism.co.uk we have reported on a number of new tools and platforms which have been launched or updated, which offer journalists different ways of telling stories visually. Our news:rewired events have also highlighted a number of those tools, most recently in a dedicated session on visual storytelling at news:rewired - digital stories, which was held last Thursday (6 December). Here is a list of just 14 tools that journalists might find useful. Main / AUPGuides browse. DigitalStorytelling. “I know only one thing about the technologies that awaits us in the future:We will find ways to tell stories with them.”

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Jason Ohlar Presentation brought to you by American TESOL! 17 Stop Motion Video Examples & Resources. Create a PicLit. Make Kids' Books Online For Free! Open Thinking Wiki. CBBC - Blue Peter. The Museum of Me. Evaluating Projects. "A story should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles.

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" Bernajean Porter If you don’t have a good or powerful story, script, and storyboard, then there will never be enough decorating that technology can do to cover it up. On the other hand, demonstrating exemplar craftsmanship with mixing the technical elements in artful ways to unfold your story creates compelling, insightful, original and memorable pieces of communication. The richness of a good story can be diluted when technical elements are not artfully developed, over used, distracting, or just plain annoying.

Quality craftsmanship intentionally uses each technical element (images, sound, transitions, music, special effects, titles, pacing, and design) to provide an integral contribution to telling the story in a way that the removal of that element would lesson the emotional impact and understanding. Scoring Guides. Making Stopmotion Movies. Character Development. Elements of the Story. Sock Puppets. Storybird - Artful storytelling. Create Video Slideshows - Style Selector. Five Card Flickr.

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Story Starters. By Jamie Keddie » Lying on the pavement. Why are you lying on the pavement?

by Jamie Keddie » Lying on the pavement

Are you drunk? In this activity, students explore issues that are raised in the video before acting out the street scene with a script. Language level: Elementary – Intermediate (A1 – B1)Learner type: Young learners; Teens; AdultsTime: 60 – 90 minutesMain activity: Drama; Role playTopic: Psychology and behaviourLanguage: Negative auxiliaries; Modal auxiliaries; Perfect tenses; Adjectives; The verb Let; The adverb JustMaterials: Music video and worksheetsLying on the pavement [downloaded 3251 times] Lesson plan outline Before your students enter the classroom, draw the outline of a person on the floor. As students enter the classroom, note any reactions to the figure on the floor but try not to get involved in any discussion at this stageAsk everyone to sit around the figure.Ask students to offer explanations for the presence of the figure.

Tell students that they are going to act out the scene in their groups. Follow ups. Lightning Bug. 7 billion Others. Google Search Stories.