i-Docs : interactive documentaries http://i-docs.org/ i-Docs : interactive documentaries
This is a space for people that want to know more about interactive documentaries (that we have called “i-docs”).
You will find academic and blog references, an archive of existing i-docs and a forum open to discussions about all the possible forms of i-docs you can think of.
A team of experts have decided to join forces to open the discussion on what is interesting and/or new in this emergent field, and on the ethical, aesthetic, political and financial consequences of the i-doc genre. Examples of interactive documentaries
#digitalstorytelling
The Zimmer Twins at School http://zimmertwinsatschool.com/ The Zimmer Twins is a site devoted to kids and creative storytelling. Since 2005, the Zimmer Twins has invited children to create and share their own animated stories.
The Zimmer Twins at School
Zimmer Twins at School bundles the fun moviemaker children love with new class management tools teachers will adore.
On the Zimmer Twin site, students can create really impressive cartoon animations ... (seriously this is saturday morning cartoon quality).
You create accounts and manage passwords, so there is no need to rely on tech support or check email during class. All class content is private.
Each class includes a dedicated blog. Share lesson plans, spark discussion, and learn about your students.
Today the site boasts an amazing group of Zimmer Fans — creative kids who continue to surprise and delight their peer audience with innovative movies. Using the Zimmer Twin's easy-to-use movie making tools members create their own serials, commercials, music videos and even reality shows. Since 2005 over one million Zimmer Twins movies have been created by kids from around the world.
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/ Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list - When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres.
Bunkr [browser-based : all devices] https://www.bunkr.me/ Bunkr
Bunkr is going beyond presentation
Use the "Collect It" bookmarklet to quickly and easily save Internet content: images, websites, videos, articles, notes, quotes,...
Your online Bunkr allows you to store and get back all the content you need to enrich your presentations.
Bunkr allows you to create amazing presentations. Simply select content from your online library to create your presentation.
Lightweight, quick, easy to share, and you don’t need to install any software.
StoryBoardThat http://www.storyboardthat.com/ StoryBoardThat
We offer Storyboard That in a number of different versions. All versions include our powerful Storyboard Creator. The additional features of our educational and corporate editions focus on collaboration and privacy in a multi user environment.
Wideo : online animation platform http://wideo.co/ Wideo is an online animation platform that allows you to create, edit, and share videos for free. The platform allows you to choose (or upload) the images, fonts, animations, and videos you want to use in order to create your own online video and then share.
Video Story Problems 101 http://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2352 Video Story Problems 101
Traditional story problems are dull, disconnected, and often don’t offer much opportunity for students to work with material and challenges from the real world that may connect with them in an affective or meaningful way. Video story problems are an attempt to capture curiosity and examples of math and science from the real world, and bring them into the classroom, where students can provide narrative structure around their learning.
Google's Story Builder : Digital Storytelling Tool : web-based http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/ Google's Story Builder : Digital Storytelling Tool : web-based
ThinkLink http://www.thinglink.com/learn ThinkLink
ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images.
Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!
Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.
Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover.
VideoScribe (from Sparkol) http://bit.ly/videoscribeauthoring VideoScribe (from Sparkol)
Create animations simply on PC, Mac and iPad
A completely unique tool for desktop and iPad for creating engaging animated content to tell your story.
Often known as Whiteboard animation or Fast Drawing,
This video is an example of what can be produced ... one in a playlist so maybe check out the others
There is no spoken audio track in this example .. but there could be. .. one in a playlist
Digital Storytelling Resource Kit http://web.tech4learning.com/dig-story-kit Digital Storytelling Resource Kit
Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. This kit is designed to help you start using this exciting process in your classroom.
Stories UnBound http://www.storiesunbound.com/ Stories UnBound ... online and location based. recommended for students writing ... max 400 words
'Stories Unbound' is the world's first social-media platform for writing and reading stories, brought to you in conjunction with those nice peeps at Melbourne Writers Festival.
Our free app lets you read, write and geotag stories.
You can write stories about whatever you like, whenever youlike and wherever you like and then get them instantly published to our unique, 'Stories Unbound' Map, facebook and twitter.
Powtoon : create an animated presentation http://www.powtoon.com/ How to create an animated presentation in 5 easy step
You’ve probably seen one of these really cool animated presentation clips on YouTube and thought to yourself: Wow I want one of those….but you soon found out that it’s too expensive to have one made, and doing one yourself is just impossible because there is no tool out there that lets you do it….right?
PowToon is a brand new presentation software that is so simple and intuitive, it allows anyone who ever used PowerPoint or KeyNote to easily evolve their presentations to AWESOMENESS!
PowToon contains themes of animated characters, props and cool transitions which you can just drag and drop into a slide to create eye catching and fun presentations that can be presented in person, or turned into animated videos at the click of a button. Tutorial HERE
Storyboard Generator. http://generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard Storyboard Generator.
You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs.
Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends.
Remember to register with Generator first if you would like to save your storyboard.
Story Wheel http://storywheel.cc/ Story Wheel
Choose your images ... order them ... record an audio narrative ... it is that easy.
Digital Storytelling Resource Kit http://web.tech4learning.com/digital-storytelling-resource-kit Digital Storytelling Resource Kit
Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. This kit is designed to help you start using this exciting process in your classroom.
Binumi http://binumi.com/ “Binumi is an online video playground that enables students to create and tell a visual story by accessing our extraordinary royalty-free video and multimedia library,” says Anthony Copping, CEO of Binumi.com.
Conceived and put together by documentary filmmakers and creative professionals who travel the world capturing moments, can help your school and your students. Binumi’s content consists of over 1,000,000 professionally shot video clips from more than 50 countries, and has over 100,000 multimedia files including music tracks, sound effects, photography and graphics.
Binumi is an innovative ‘Edutainment’ teaching tool that encourages students to express their creativity as they learn. It is the biggest online resource of rights-free content ever made available, enabling students and teachers to produce, distribute, and even sell their Binumi creations.
Story Creator 2 http://tools.e2bn.org/tool_7.html Story Creator 2
Story Creator 2 will help you to use pictures to create a graphic version of a story. The 'Story Creator' comes with lots of backgrounds, characters and props and you can even add your own pictures.
Stroome : mashup video + images + audio http://splash.stroome.com/ Stroome : mashup video + images + audio
Stroome is the world’s most comprehensive collaborative online video editing community. A place where anyone with a camera and a point of view can polish, publish and promote their content to a potential audience of millions.
There’s nothing to download. It all happens in your browser. And the best part? It’s free. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Brainshark http://www.brainshark.com/ Brainshark : Upload ppt and digital media and add narration
With Brainshark’s cloud-based solution, you can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched online and mobile video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand...and tracked so you can measure the effectiveness of your communications.
See screencast Tutorial
Storify http://storify.com Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers. Download the App for Apple
Little Bird Tales http://www.littlebirdtales.com/ Little Bird Tales was created to help nurture children's creativity and imagination while simultaneously creating one of a kind childhood treasures that can easily be shared. We are dedicated to providing a safe web environment for children, free of advertising, merchandising and links to other sites.
Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family.
Digital Storytelling Apps for iDevices http://bit.ly/mlTxqT Digital Storytelling Apps for iDevices
These apps will help get you started with digital storytelling.
Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/04/03/storyboarding-pre-writing-activity/ Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity
The more we podcast and have our students create video clips or other digital storytelling projects, the more we need to teach storyboarding as part of the process.
Being able to pre-visualize how your story will unfold is becoming a vital skill to have for storytellers.
Tripline http://tripline.net/ Tripline
At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you to tell a story by putting places on a map. That's a very human activity that has been happening for thousands of years.
Stories Come Alive http://storiescomealive.wikispaces.com/ Stories Come Alive
elcome to the Stories Come Alive Wiki. Here you will find many ideas for "digital story telling". Put away your paper and pencils and put technology at your fingertips. Your students will become more motivated and more excited about learning when you show them a variety of ways to present their topics or findings. The possibilities are endless.
The 'What If?' Question Genie http://www.brucevanpatter.com/what_if_questions.php The 'What If?' Question Genie
Kids,do you want ideas for writing a What If story? I, your genie, am here to serve you. Use the What If question you see above to start your own strange tale.
The Story Starter, Jr http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm The Story Starter, Jr
Write down your story starter line to start your story or...
click the button again for a different story starter.
ZooBurst http://www.zooburst.com/ ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
The Zimmer Twins http://www.zimmertwins.com/ The Zimmer Twins is a site devoted to kids and creative storytelling. Since 2005, the Zimmer Twins has invited children to create and share their own animated stories.
Today the site boasts an amazing group of Zimmer Fans — creative kids who continue to surprise and delight their peer audience with innovative movies. Using the Zimmer Twin's easy-to-use movie making tools members create their own serials, commercials, music videos and even reality shows. Since 2005 over one million Zimmer Twins movies have been created by kids from around the world.
Storyrobe (iPod, iPhone,iPad App) http://www.storyrobe.com/ Storyrobe is an exciting new digital storytelling application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Storyrobe lets you tell create digital stories using images and video from your camera or photo library.
You can use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos. Use Storyrobe to tell, share, and add to others stories creating a Storyrobe.
Download it from the app store.
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators http://bit.ly/dAkpgg Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators .. free download ebook
This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling.
Make Me a Story : Podcast interview with Lisa C. Miller http://onceuponateacher.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-me-story.html Make Me a Story : Podcast with Lisa C. Miller "I had the pleasure to speak with Lisa Miller about her new book, so I took that opportunity to record a podcast (I've been wanting to try one for a while!)
We had a great conversation about meeting the needs of diverse learners while doing digital storytelling, class management and why you should give digital storytelling a try."
MapSkip http://www.mapskip.com MapSkip makes the world a canvas for our stories and photo.
It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show.
And many of our stories are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives - where we live, eat, work and have fun.
Join the MapSkip community in exploring the world through shared stories, pictures, videos and sound recordings about all the places in our lives.
Kizoa http://www.kizoa.com/ Kizoa
Create beautiful slideshows, with music and many effects, insert them into your blog or website.
| Creating slideshows | Photo editing|Photo sharing | Photo hosting | Photo sorting |
Storybird http://storybird.com/ Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and print.
Tell your stories without a middleman. Create teaching tools for students. Experiment and goof around.
ZooBurst : Augmented Reality 3D Pop-Up Books http://zooburst.com/ ZooBurst : Augmented Reality 3D Pop-Up Books
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books.
Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.
ZooBurst books are completely web-based and can be experienced using nothing more than your browser outfitted with the Adobe Flash plug-in. Books can be inspected from any angle from with a 3D space, and rotating around a book is as easy as dragging and dropping your mouse.
In addition, the author of a book can choose to make items "clickable," allowing you to learn more about individual characters within a story.
Dvolver http://dvolver.com/live/home.html 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.
Screencast tutorial at http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/volver/
This could be used as a digital storytelling tool ... Choose a scene => Dialogue => Characters => Music => Titles => Watch => Share