Digital+Storytelling+Examples

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**Animoto**
media type="custom" key="8444958" Hillsboro Elementary The hunger games [|Le Petit Prince]

Animoto has an education account.

**Blabberize**
media type="custom" key="8444758" [|Blabberizing about planets] - the student researched the planet and then narrated from first person Using blabberize to introduce a research project

**Glogster **
media type="custom" key="8444988" Glogster has an EDU service Browse the Glogs

This [|handout] will walk you through some of the key features of Glogster:

How?: Here are some examples of how language teachers are using Glogster in their classes:

[|All About Me Project (Spanish)] Note that students can include their own voices! [|Music In Spanish & Italian] Teachers could use it to create extra credit activities, "culture capsules," or collections of materials that students can use for practice outside of class. [|Linguistics Poster (University Level)]Glogster can be useful for helping university students prepare research for poster sessions at conferences [|Ludwig Van Beethoven Project (German)] Students can use it to demonstrate their learning in the target language-the next few links are all "famous person projects" in different languages [|Les freres lumieres (French)] [|Nicolas Guillen (Spanish)] [|Practice Your German] Could be a great project for FL week! [|Very Clever Use of Food] Wouldn't these make GREAT writing prompts?! [|What I Like About Me] 1 and [|What I Like About Me 2]

Go Animate
The Merchant of Venice:

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Prezi
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Playing to Learn Prezi

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Storybird
media type="custom" key="8445220" Browse the online storybird books Free class account for teachers

**Voicethread**
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Browse the voicethreads. Voicethread has an edu account

Digital storytelling with the ability to have text, audio, video, or doodle commentary on each slide. You must have a VoiceThread account in order to create or comment.

You can set preferences to allow others to comment as well. [|VoiceThread] is an interesting, easy to use web-based environment for digital storytelling and there is an [|education portal].

[|Langwitches]describes how she used it with her students and how to get started.
 * Spanish example - [|La familia] and [|a story about a horse].
 * Chinese - [|student example in Chinese,] a [|student sample about the zodiac animals], this [|example] has a teacher record a speech sample and the students repeat and record and here students can hear [|colors].
 * French - a simple use for [|French vocabulary on professions]
 * Even Kindergarten students can use VoiceThread
 * Read more about how educators are using VoiceThread - there are many examples here!

[|This quick start guide can get you started] and [|this tutorial] is well done.

Like VoiceThread? Here is a [|VoiceThread Ning] you could consider joining!

[|Think VoiceThreads] is a wiki created by educators on the PBwiki platform - great ideas there too!

VoiceThread in Education is a presentation with many examples and ideas.

**Voki**
media type="custom" key="8444628" Examples: High School book talk vokis Vokis in science -students created vokis to review material (this page has the instructions, look at the menu on the left for the links to the vokis) [|German example] A teacher of Japanese created this [|voki]

Here is a page with instructions on how to create a voki (without registering for an account) and submitting that informatoin via a form to the teacher for subsequent embedding. This project was for middle school language arts, where students had the avatar speak their poems. Voki can also be useful for English language learners.

Voki has a Voki for Education area

Xtranormal
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EDU portal available.