Digital Storytelling

You can create a digital narrative using slideshow tools, comic tools, audio tools, video tools, mixer tools, and many more. Cogdogro's wikispace discusses them all! This site presents a list of 50 + digital storytools, each with a brief description and examples. Check it out and pick the one(s) you like for your class. Most of these tools are very easy to use and a lot of fun.

Another tool that I really like is PhotoStory3

Suggested activities

1. Create your own stories for the reading or speaking class.
2. Have your students create, write, and tell their own stories. They can do only pictures; pictures and text; pictures and audio; pictures, text, and audio; video recording; comics; and similar combinations.
3. Pair students up and ask them to create the beginning of a story. Then give the story to another group to finish it. Was the end the way the first pair thought it would be like?
4. Create a digital story and show to the class all the frames of the story but the last one. It should be a story that allows for multiple endings. Ask students to finish the story by providing the last frame in the form of a picture or drawing, or by just writing what they think the last frame would be like (great for the writing class!) . Then have them present their ideas to the class and explain their choice. Also, don't forget to show and explain your last frame, too.
5. Ask students to create a two/three-frame visual story/comic. Then ask them to narrate it to another student without showing it to him/her. The other student should recreate the story/comic as he/she pictured it during the narration. Then have the students compare their stories. Don't forget to ask students to pay attention to detail!
6. Ask students to write down the story other students created digitally. Excellent activity to discuss different narration styles.
7. Ask students to add text to their own digital stories or to one created by another student.
   

Also, for great ideas and descriptions of K-12 projects on digital storytelling, go to JasonOhler.com