Resources

**RESOURCE WEBSITES FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING**

 * 50 Ways to Tell a Story
 * [|BBC Digital Storytelling]
 * [|David Jakes Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum]
 * [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling]
 * Igniting Student Creativity Through Digital Storytelling
 * [|Jason Ohler]
 * [|Marco Torres] (Broken link. Keeping name for my reference.)
 * Story Center
 * [|Microsoft's Multmedia Storytelling Teacher's Guide]
 * [|Smalltownkansastech]
 * [|Teach Digital: Wesley Fryer]
 * Tellmeadigitalstory
 * [|Using Technology to Tell Stories]
 * Next Network Gold Lessons

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
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 * [|Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers Chart] (PDF) from Technology & Learning Magazine
 * The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use (Article) from Education World

**PICTURE AND IMAGE RESOURCES**

 * [|Creative Commons Flickr Search] - Search for Creative Commons Images on Flickr
 * [|ImageCodr] The search for images licensed under Creative Commons on Flickr.
 * [|Links to Image Sources from Digitales]
 * [|Links to Royalty Free Resources]
 * [|Microsoft Clip Art]
 * [|NYPL Digital Gallery] Free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library
 * [|Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia] Students or teachers may download and print out the pictures provided in this section of this website for their personal use in project or classroom work.
 * [|Pic Findr] Search the web for images.
 * [|Pics4Learning] A copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.
 * [|WP Clipart] Public domain clip art images optimized for use with Word Processors, specializing in use for education with fewer ads and easy search.
 * Primary Access - PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

**ONLINE PHOTO EDITORS**

 * [|Aviary]
 * [|Citrify]
 * [|Dr. Pic]
 * [|FotoFlexer]
 * [|Picnik]
 * [|Resize Photos]
 * [|Splashup]

MUSIC RESOURCES

 * [|Free Sounds] Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound
 * [|Ibiblio.org] A conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
 * [|Internet Archives]is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
 * [|JamStudio] Create music beats - free online music mixing & songwriting tool
 * [|Musopen] An online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.
 * [|Reverbnation] Click to download new music, completely free.
 * [|Soundzabounds]

**SOUND EFFECTS**

 * [|Audio Speak] AutoSpeak Library of Sounds features the sounds of race cars, dragsters, motorcycles and other auto-related sounds.
 * [|Find Sounds] Search engine for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.
 * [| Nature Sounds] Free mp3s downloads of nature sounds.
 * [|Sound Snap] Find and share free sound effects and loops.
 * [|Special Operations] Military sounds.

SOUND RECORDING SOFTWARE

 * [|Download Audacity]
 * [|LAME MP3 encoder] - Allows Audacity to export MP3 files

Other Storytelling Resources (Collaborative Writing) Revision Checklist for Google Docs
 * Google Docs (Google Drive)

Lesson Plan ideas

 * Give the students the task of writing in a particular format. For example: a dialog between two characters in a book they're reading, a dialog in a second language they're learning; a poetic form like haiku or diamanté, a standard five part essay or a news account using the elements of who, what, where, when and why with the most important information at the top.
 * Have students write a letter, a simulated diary entry of a famous person, a Wikipedia entry for their neighborhood or for some object you bring into the classroom.
 * Provide a partially complete document and let the learners fill in the missing parts.
 * Collaborative lyrical analysis
 * Grammar Journal Assignment description
 * Staff-to-staff Collaboration: Sharing lesson plans, PD Notes, Referral Forms
 * Student-to-staff: Sharing writing and poetry, lessons and quizzes
 * Student-to-student: Peer editing, and collaborative writing projects


 * FoldingStory - a group storytelling game
 * Create a Story with QR Codes
 * Ficly - Collaborative Storytelling. Start your own story or jump into someone else’s. Word limit of 1,024 characters.
 * WikiStory - Using a wiki for collaborative storytelling. A member can begin or edit a story, poem, plot or character description.