1. Digital Storytelling
Participants will become familiar with digital storytelling tools in order to integrate digital storytelling into a lesson. 

2. tinyurl.com/DLUStory
Resources

3. Quick Write: What are all the ways that students encounter storytelling on a daily basis?

4. BENEFITS Storytelling requires: Creativity and inventive thinking
Multiple intelligences / learning styles
Visual literacy
Technical literacy
Effective communication
Evaluating effective communication
Teaming and Collaboration
Project management mentality
Enduring understanding
BENEFITS

5. Personal Narratives: help us reflect on where we've been, what we've learned, and illustrate our journeys of discovery.
Historical Documentaries:  require research and the ability to synthesize a large amount of information into the most important and educationally useful information.
Content Area Stories: created specifically to deliver instructional content on various topics such as history, culture, math, science, or language arts.
TYPES

6. PROCESS Write the narrative Plan the project1
Write the narrative 2
Plan the project 3
Gather and prepare resources 4
Put it all together
PROCESS

7. Scholastic Story Starters PicLits* STORY STARTERS
Emoji Prompts
Scholastic Story Starters
PicLits*
Write the Narrative
STORY STARTERS
* Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

8. Explain the tool.
How could this tool be used to “write the narrative”?

9. Plan the Project
STORYBOARD
BCPS Video Production Guide: Storyboarding

10. COPYRIGHT FRIENDLY Gather and Prepare Resources
In addition to online sources, students can use the camera in their device to take their own photos and videos, or recorder for audio recordings. And many tools have built-in clip art.

11. Account-Free, Web-based STORY MAKERS
ABCya! Story Maker*
My Storymaker
RWT Comic Creator
ABCya! Animate*
Make Beliefs Comix*
Storyboard That
Flip Anim
Pull it All Together
Account-Free, Web-based STORY MAKERS
For some of these tools the students would have to complete their project in one sitting and if a save/print option isn’t available without an account, they would have to use a screenshot tool to save their work.
* Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

12. Other STORY MAKERS Story Jumper Storybird* Wixie* Kids Story Builder*
Movie Moments*
Sway
VoiceThread*
Movie Maker*
Pull it All Together
Other STORY MAKERS
For Story Jumper and Storybird, teachers may create accounts for their students using student initials or anonymized usernames.
* Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

13. STORY TELLING CHALLENGE

14. Thank you! Feel free to contact me any time.
DLU Reflections are due ____