Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar! I still remember the storybooks I created when I was younger. They were made by stapling or gluing construction paper over notebook paper and illustrating the pages with crayons and marker. Students still enjoy creating physical storybooks, but now their stories can be preserved digitally forever […]
Tag: digital storytelling
Savvy #ISTE17 Interviews: Digital Posters & Storytelling with Buncee
Baby Savvy was excited to interview Buncee Man and tour the newest features at Buncee. Buncee is a web tool and mobile app teachers and their learners can use to create digital slide presentations, digital stories, digital books, posters, greetings, digital scrapbooks, interactive images and more. Buncee is easy to use for young language learners to adults. Some […]
Let's Write! 20+ Ideas & Resources
“Young people are reading and writing more than I ever did at their age, but they are doing it using their computers and mobile phones … The mobile is central, and will become even more so as time goes by.” – David Crystal David Crystal, a world renowned linguist, has researched text speak and digital […]
Video Projects to Engage Learners: 20+ Tools & Tips
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! ”Humans are incredibly visual and powerful, moving images help us find meaning… [and] video helps capture and contextualize the world around us.” – Dan Patterson Some of the most popular apps and social networks (Periscope, Meerkat, Vine, Instagram, Youtube, etc.) make it easy for anyone to quickly […]
Creating Digital Books: 15+ Ideas & Resources
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys […]
Teach with Comics! 15+ Tips & Tools
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. ~ Nicholas Cage Comics can be powerful learning tools. The mix of art, dialogue, character expressions, and frames engages learners and is brain-friendly. Comics break down a story’s plot […]
Sharing Stories: Powerful Lessons in Digital Storytelling
From the Cool Sites Series “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind This week I am in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, presenting at the GAETC conference. It is one of […]
Motivated to Write: 30+ Resources
From the Cool Sites Series “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” ~ Vladimir Nabakov This week I am in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, presenting at the GAETC conference. It is one of the most organized and interesting […]
20+ Storybook Creation Tools and Apps
Part of the Cool Sites series! “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind We learn through the process of storytelling. Stories give learners a […]
20+ Apps to Support the Digital Storytelling Process
Throughout history, people have learned through stories. The metaphors and hidden messages help us to understand difficult concepts and themes. Additionally, stories help us visualize material and help us tie knowledge with our experiences. Educators now have 100s of fantastic free online tools to help their students create and learn through digital storytelling. Many of […]