1. Digital Storytelling CHAPTER II

2. How to Tell a Great Story  1. Find the Story  2. Map Your Story  3. Capture Your Audience’s Attention  4. Tell Your Story from Your Unique Point of View  5. Use Fresh and Vivid Language  6. Integrate emotion (both yours and the audience

3. The Great Digital Story  7. Use your own voice in the script and in the audio  8. Choose your images and sounds carefully  9. Be as brief as you can be.  10. Make certain your story has a great rhythm

4. Music  I Tunes - easy access to your soundzabound downloads  Soundzabound  http://www.soundzabound.com/ http://www.soundzabound.com/  Login name: 4271 mpcs Password: aea10  You cannot use purchased I Tunes songs in a video. You need to obtain permission to do so.  http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-resources.html

5. Some Online Resources  VoiceThread  http://voicethread.com/ http://voicethread.com/  Features many ideas for use in a variety of subject areas.  Educational Features.

6. Go Animate & Storybird  An online video composing site. It is simple and fast to use and learn.  http://goanimate.com/ http://goanimate.com/  A variety of art enhances and inspires really storytelling by students.  http://storybird.com/ http://storybird.com/

7. Photo editing  http://pixlr.com/ http://pixlr.com/  Permits a variety of edits including special effects.  Many people recommend Mixbook as a way of creating a book. A 4 x6 book is $6.99 for 20 pages.  http://www.mixbook.com/ http://www.mixbook.com/