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Documents

 * This document is a step by step guide on how to create digital stories using iMovie.
 * This is a document from Microsoft that explains the benefits, as well as providing a teaching guide, for digital storytelling:[[image:https://ssl.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png link="https://edn113-2012-groupproject.wikispaces.com/file/view/digitalstorytellingebook.pdf"]] [|digitalstorytellingebook.pdf]

Websites

 * PicLits PicLits is a great website designed to assist students with creative writing. This site could be used to help students practice their writing skills and help develop their stories.
 * Tikatok lets students create a story and then publish their story in a book.
 * Kerpoof is a website that helps children to create a digital story. Students can choose from different storylines, characters and scenes.
 * Domo AnimateThis website allows you students to create a plot and script using animations.
 * My Storymaker My storymaker is a website that helps students to create characters and stories. Students can then print out their stories and use this as a base for their digital story.
 * This website has information about digital storytelling including research done on digital storytelling and instructions on how to create a digital story.
 * This link will take you to iLearn Technology. It is an edublog about intergrating technology into the classroom and this blog is called 31 of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites.
 * Sharing Culture with Digital Storytelling is an excellent website that includes a lesson plan spread over 8 lessons.
 * This e-portfolioincludes links to eight website about digital storytelling put together by Dr. Helen Barrett.
 * J. Eugene Smith Library has put together numerous resources on digital storytelling which can be accessed by clicking here.
 * This website has a collection of resources designed to help teachers guide students in creating digital stories.

Social networking sites
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Diigo is a free social networking site. A class group can be created and through Diigo students are able to share resources, bookmark pages and communicate with each other. We have also included a short video about Diigo groups, taken from YouTube, below:

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Software
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Photostory. Photostory is a free downloadable software, from Microsoft, which enables students to create a photo presentation and save it as a video file. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> imovie is an easy to use app available from apple which assists people in makng their own movies.

Interactive Whiteboard
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This link will take you to Smart Exchange. This is a free to access website full of resources for teachers. There are resources about storytelling available, including some that help with creating characters, planning the story and setting the scene of the story.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Learning Federation is an educational website full of resources related to many topics across the curriculum. This link will take you to a resource which helps students to explore the point of view in a narritive.

Movie or podcast
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Below are examples of digital stories taken from YouTube.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Note that in each example given in these videos the digital stories have been created using different methods. You may choose to use an idea from one of these videos when creating your digital story. You could also come up with a brand new idea on how to create a digital story. You are only limited by your imagination!

References:
Create a digital storytelling artifact using iMovie2. from [] AVOS. (2011). Delicious, from [] Company, A. b. a. N. (2012). Tikatok, from [] Cook, H. M. (2012). Using technology in the classroom to capture oral traditions, from [] Corporation, C. (N.D). The le@rning federation, from [] Corporation, M. (Producer). (2010). Winportal. Retrieved from [] Disney, W. (N.D). Kerpoof, from [|http://www.kerpoof.com/#/about] Friedlander, T. (2007-08). Pic Lits Inspired picture writing, from [] Lounge lizard Worldwide, I. (N.D) Domo Animate, from [] Microsoft. (2012). Microsoft in Education, from [] Ormiston, M. (N.D) Digital Storytelling Resources for Educators, from [] Pittsburg, C. L. o. (2012). My storymaker, from [] Stores, T. (2008). Dream in color, from [] technologies, S. (2011). Smart exchange, from [] Tenkely, K. (2010). iLearn technology, from [] Vogel, J. (2007). Digital storytelling, from [|http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~jevogel2/lis506/research.html]