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 * Digital Rich Classroom** Ideas for enriching your teaching and engaging students.

//Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.// http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
 * Digital Storytelling**

Don't think of digital storytelling as being only for Language Arts. This is a useful resource for all content areas.

Examples: Multiplying Fractions - Go to the 3rd avatar (icon) to hear the student explain the process of dividing fractions. The comment following this is the teacher critiquing the student work.
 * Math**
 * [|http://voicethread.com/?#q+math.b8752.i68307]**

Medieval Unit [|http://voicethread.com/?#q+social+studies.b258473.i1440577]
 * Social Studies** (Student work)

8th Grade Historical Fictions []
 * Language Arts** (Student work)

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 * Tools for Digital Storytelling**
 * **Voicethread** []
 * From the website...A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holdsimages, documents, and video and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways.
 * Subscription required - be sure to apply for an educator account - free
 * Bit more on the "management" side for this one, but well worth it
 * Teacher would login to his/her account, students would work on that computer
 * **Storybird** []
 * From the website: Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
 * Free for educators to use
 * Teacher accounts available, able to sign up and have your own class
 * Classes are private (student names shielded, conversations hidden and you decide when and where to share stories)
 * Able to embed stories on webpages
 * Teacher FAQ http://storybird.com/faq/teachers/#tq1
 * **StoryJumper** []
 * Just like Storybird, free for educators
 * Students can upload their own art work (not able to do this is Storybird)
 * The "How To" is just about the best I have ever seen, walks you through step by step. Also provides the same info for students.
 * Subscription required - free
 * Like Storybird, teachers can set-up classrooms providing privacy control
 * To learn more visit: http://www.storyjumper.com/main/classroom
 * **Voki**http://voki.com/
 * Create customized avatars with their own "voice"
 * Students can enter in info to be spoken by typing or recording their voice
 * Able to post on websites
 * Subscription required - free
 * Voki lesson plans provided
 * Up to 60 seconds for audio message length
 * Student accounts - from their website. " This site is a general audience site which is neither designed nor intended to collect personal information from children who are under the age of 13. In order to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information to this site. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.
 * Don't have to subscribe to create a Voki - will be able to a link to voki or the embed code
 * Example: http://candycanes2010.wikispaces.com/
 * **Audacity**(loaded on all computers)
 * Audio recording application
 * Idea from Larissa (Park). Have students record themselves reading and then play back to listen for fluency.
 * **Windows Movie Maker** (loaded on all teacher and student computers)
 * **Cartooning**
 * **Make Belief**s Comix []
 * 21 Ways to Use Makebeliefscomix.com in the Classroom []
 * Able to write in Spanish
 * No subscription required
 * Can email and print
 * Might be a bit more to manage for younger grades since students don't have email accounts, would have to print in order to save
 * **Music and sound bites**
 * **Free Play Music**[| http://freeplaymusic.com/]
 * **Sound Bible** []
 * Sound bits, effects and clips...free
 * **Photos/Graphics Manipulation**
 * **Be Funky** []
 * Able to manipulate pictures without signing up for an account
 * **Big Huge Labs** []
 * Subscription required - free
 * Can work on this website without having to log-in
 * **Photofunia**[| http://photofunia.com/](//cautionary note - for teacher use only - some of the examples on the page are not appropriate for younger students)//
 * Can work on this website without having to log-in


 * **Video resources**(free)
 * **Animoto** (limited to 30 second videos)[| http://animoto.com]
 * Example - you might recognize this from a few years ago...http://animoto.com/play/Zjxmd8er8VfxRElCSevx6A


 * Resources for Ideas and Ways to Use Digital Storytelling in Your Teaching**
 * All Content Areas (Ideas) []
 * Digital Storytelling Resources []
 * Math (Ideas)[| http://homepage.mac.com/emlord/tie/artifacts/mathCameras/ideas.html]