Technology Across the Curriculum

What is digital storytelling?

• Multimedia
• Telling stories
• Personal narrative or exploration can be at the heart of the digital story

• Video possibilities: The Flip Camcorder — cheap, easy to use
• Wesley Fryer gives a nice overview of the emergence of web-based sites for storytelling. Read his post here.

Activity

Use MakeBeliefs Comics to create your own comic, based on your curriculum. (Send the link of your comic to Kevin at dogtrax(at)gmail(dot)com and he will post them here at the blog)

Activity

Sign up for VoiceThread and create a short piece, using audio and images (you can use this Flickr Creative Commons search engine for photos to be used in online projects).

Then, join us on this WMWP Technology Conference Voicethread:

• See Mary’s class website — she has an example of a Science VoiceThread on Rube Goldberg machines
• Here is one example of a Math VoiceThread
• You can also visit a Voicethread 4 Education wiki set up to showcase how VoiceThread is used in classrooms around the world.
• And here are some Revolutionary War Timelines created in VoiceThread.
• And here is a VoiceThread that tells of one woman’s journey out of Kenya:

One more thing:

• 50 Tools of the Web to Tell Your Story