The Big Question

Today we will have a look at a range of story telling tools that will allow your students to develop and showcase their understandings in a range of powerful ways. We will be exploring the following tools and I have placed them roughly in ease of use order.

Storybird – Tour

Storybird promotes imagination, literacy, and self-confidence. Its a simple writing and publishing tool that is quick, effective and powerful. Look here for the first attempt by a 5 year old. Drag and drop illustrations, text boxes and a quality product created quickly.

A very nice tool. Currently you are able to publish it to storybird, accept comments but not embed elsewhere. Students can collaborate on books.

Tikatok

Tikatok is an online creative community whose mission is to turn kids into published authors. Students can use their own illustrations and publish their book, even order real paperback and hardcover books.

Dvolver – Movie Maker

Create a text based, comic style movie with simple animation. Its very simple, quick and effective. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

A powerful cartoon/animation creation tool. Choose your characters, background and exercise full control over voices, languages, gestures and framing. Students can create powerful movies, role plays, presentations and debates, quickly and free

Today we will have a look at a range of story telling tools that will allow your students to develop and showcase their understandings in a range of powerful ways.We will be exploring the following tools and I have placed them roughly in ease of use order.

Storybird – Tour

A Tour of Storybird, a great reading and writing tool. Simple, quick and effective. Look here for the first attempt by a 5 year old. Drag and drop illustrations, text boxes and a quality product created quickly.

A very nice tool. Currently you are able to publish it to storybird, accept comments but not embed elsewhere. Students can collaborate.

Dvolver – Movie Maker

Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.

Whrrl – What’s your story?

Simple iphone friendly story telling, location, images and text, quite good for a procedural text or excursion report. Students can collaborate on projects. Really good with mobile technology.

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

Easy Movie/cartoon making – Make 3d movies for free. Includes a range of languages, easy to use interface and a selection of backgrounds. Great for languages

GoAnimate

A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.

My StoryMaker : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects – and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, save it online or print it out in the Library. I really liked the way the story was made and the structure it provided for the students while writing. However the publishing and sharing options are very limited and I would suggest the child capturing the entire creation process with a screen capture tool.

Myths and Legends from E2BN

Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. Make your own animated myths and legends. Really interesting voices and speech capabilities. I can see a range of uses within HSIE

How do CONTEMPORARY MODES OF LITERACY differ from TRADITIONAL MODES OF LITERACY?????

What implications does this have for our students and the teachers in our schools?

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