Wordle
Wordle: Junita 55 Wordle is word generating tool that develops “word clouds” from text that you provide. You can create your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. The wordle you create is yours and can be added to your blog or websites or you can print them out and save them to the Wordle gallery to share http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle

 Wordle is word generating tool that develops “word clouds” from text that you provide. You can create your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and colour schemes. The wordle you create is yours and can be added to your blog or websites or you can print them out and save them to the Wordle gallery to share

http://www.wordle.net/ 

 

 

Wordle
Piclits a Drop and Drag Story Board

PICLITS

Piclits is a creative writing site that provides pictures and a word so students can create a  sentences about the picture.    Students can  drag words from the word bank to create their sentence or compose a sentence their own sentences . A  great way to get students to think creatively and critically about writing. 

http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx

Photo story 3

Over the last few years I have been enjoying making Digital storys an this software is one of my favorites, they can be added to youtube and embeded into your websites a nifty way to tell a story using your personal photos. Great for the classroom as a student activity or for family and friends to view storys of your adventures.

You can create slideshows using your digital photos that you download from your computer. It is easy to crop, rotate pictures and add special effects personalize them with voice narration, titles and captions. The small file sizes make it easy to save them to your computer or send off as emails.

You wil need to ensure you have the correct software that can be downloaded from the Photo Story 3 site.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography

/PHotoStory/default.mspx

Zinepal

Zinepal creates eBooks in the PDF, ePub, Kindle and Mobipocket formats. It's one of the easiest ways to make eBooks and printable PDFs from existing web content in order to reach additional audiences and offer readers more choices

http://www.zinepal.com/

 

Empressr: Rich media presentation tool http://www.empressr.com/

Empressr is a visual storytelling and presentation Internet application.It allows you to create, manage and share by enabling you to combine streaming video, animation, audio, still images and text. You can easily embed your visual story in your blog or your favorite social network page. 

Empressr and what is happening to books
Storytelling

Pichacker

With Pichacker it’s easier than ever to create elegant profile pictures. Choose from our library of photo effects and goodies to turn your ordinary photos into extraordinary art

http://pichacker.com/

Sketch Hero

 'Sketch Heroes' a new website for all who love sketching, drawing and just adoring art. On the website you can learn to draw anything you ever wanted, for instant

http://www.sketchheroes.com/

Slideshare

SlideShare is an online community for sharing presentations and documents.

http://www.slideshare.net/

You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice  presentations, You can share them on your blog or website, or URL. The transcripts of your files will be indexed by Internet search engines. SlideShare is a place to find presentations and documents on almost any topic.

Tim Sheppards Story telling Resource

Probably the biggest collection of storytelling resources on the web, annotated and categorized for easy reference.

http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/tellinglinks.html#Digital%20Storytelling

Tikatok 

Tikatok Works by Creating a book on Tikatok.com is a simple and fun way for you and your child to express imagination and creativity

http://www.tikatok.com/how-it-works

ZIPCAST

Slideshare has released ‘Zipcast’ a no-download video+slides technology that allows anyone to give a ‘keynote’ speech to an online audience in real time.

This new tool allows you to run live video meetings alongside your SlideShare presentations. The video quality is basic but it’s easy to use. Zipcast is integrated with social media buttons, offers a live-stream chat feature and allows up to 5000 participants.

http://blog.slideshare.net/2011/02/16/announcing-zipcast-changing-the-way-the-world-conducts-web-meetings/


 

Zipcast
Animoto

Animoto is so easy to use and is great for anyone to manovere . It develops short movies, 30 seconds for the free version. You can add your favorite photos to create something uniquely yours.  Try it out great for story telling.

http://help.animoto.com/home

Animoto

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Story telling

Wikipedia says: Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and in order to instill moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view.

In classroom practice we often use storytelling as a way to engage our students and to improve literacy.There are many ways to tell a story and many ideas and tools available.

Check out some on offer....

                             

http://foldingstory.com/

Folding Story is a writing game where each writer is constrained to write one line of a story (120 words or less) and pass it on to another writer to add to it.

http://ficly.com/

Call it micro-fiction in a collaborative way. Start your own story or jump into someone else’s with a word limit of 1,024 characters only

http://www.fabulate.co.uk/

Fabulate is a collaborative book project, where each writer may submit a story with a maximum length of 500 words.

http://www.wikistory.com/wiki/WikiStory_Home 

The concept of using a Wiki for collaborative storytelling is worth the browse. A member can begin or edit a story, poem, plot, or character description.

http://www.1000000monkeys.com/

Here, each story has three possible paths. You can choose one out of the three or craft your own ‘snippet’.

http://storymash.com/

StoryMash might appeal to amateur writers who want some of the spoils for their writing. The site shares half of the advertizing revenue stories get with their writers

http://www.novlet.com/

Novlet allows you to start a collaborative writing effort in any language. Each story here is divided into passages.

Prezi

Slidestaxx

http://www.slidestaxx.com/

slidestaxx enables you to gather social media from various sources and produce a beautiful slideshow you can post on your blog, website or directly on slidestaxx. It's fast, easy and free! Add pictures, videos, websites and more into your slideshow and then embed the slidestaxx into your own website or blog. Check out some of the ways you can use slidestaxx below and sign up to get started on your own slidestaxx project.

 

Prezi : For fantastic PPT presentations http://prezi.com/ 

http://tamingthebeast.wikispaces.com/file/view/prezi+tutorial.pdf

Getting started with Prezzi is easy you will make great presentations that will appeal.

I have seen a number of prezi presentations they look fantastic.

http://prezi.com/learn/getting-started/ 

 

Storybird/AuthorSTREAM/Photo Show

Storybird is a fun collaborative storytelling app it makes it easy to create and tell stories digitally.  Students and teachers can create stories together by combining imaginative artwork and text.  The imaginative artwork will have your students creating stories in no time.

http://storybird.com/

AuthorSTREAM

http://www.authorstream.com/ 

You can use authorSTREAM to upload PowerPoint files and discover what slide sharing is all about and share your PowerPoint presentations on the Web as a unique link (URL) to send via e-mail, or embed them in your blogs or website

Photo Show

Engaging, one-of-a-kind Photo Show story in just minutes create and share their special moments in a fun, secure setting 

http://www.photoshow.com/home/start

Story Telling
How to PowerPoint

 

PowerPoint is one of the simplest programs to learn. It is a program used worldwide for presentations. You can create stunning presentations that look like they were designed by a professional.

PowerPoint presentations can be made into photo albums, complete with music or narrations, to distribute on CDs or DVDs.

Checkout this presentation http://www.actden.com/pp/

 

PPT
Embedding video into PPT
Custom Header Text

Prezentit:Cool Online presentations  http://prezentit.com/

 

Creaza : A suite of presentation applications http://www.creaza.com/

I have just been introduced to sliderocket looks like a great presentation tool

http://www.sliderocket.com/

SlideRocket is a Web-enabled way to create, manage, deliver, and share presentations.

 

 

 

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