Vimeo -Upload your videos here for free in high quality and to embed in a blog or wiki.
Dvolver - Create a video writing your text and choosing your characters and scene. Go!animate Put words into your figure's mouth.
Roxio - Turn your photos into a video. Smilebox - Create videos from your pictures and videos adding design and music. Sketchcast - Record a sketch with or without your voice. Fotobabble- Create videos with audio and your voice. Free mobile app for IOS. Skqueak- Create videos with audio and your voice. Draw on your pictures. Free mobile app for IOS. BiteSlide- digital slidebooks with images, videos, and text. Collaborate & edit.
Prezi for on your computer or your portable device- this is an alternative to ppt and is very appealing and flexible
Doodlecast - you can draw and write or add pictures and record the screen as well as your voice.
PhotoPeach App- Upload images, enter text, and add music to create a dynamic slideshow. Available on the iPad.
Capzles App- Upload images, audio, video, text, and documents to create a multimedia timeline of events. Available on i-devices.
Toontastic- This app is designed to walk students through the storytelling process of choosing a scene, climax, setting, conflict, and characters. Students even choose music to match the characters’ emotions and create a digital storytelling video that is shared on their global digital storytelling online channel where the students win badges for their creations. Available on the iPad and iPod.
Story Wheel- an educational game in which players record a story by spinning the wheel to get a picture, and then narrate a portion of the story. Students can listen to their story with beautifully animated pictures.
StoryRobe- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos. You have the option to upload to Youtube or send it through e-mail. If it’s in their e-mail, then the parents can easily e-mail their child’s production to their friends! You don’t need an Internet connection to create the stories, but you do to send them! Available on the iPad and iPod.
Splice- Best video editing app for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad that is free. Add audio, transitions, images, and more.
Fotobabble- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos.
Puppet Pals- Choose the western characters, personalize the characters by adding your voice, select the scene and props, and record a video. Send this by email or upload to Youtube. Available on the iPad and iPod.
StoryKit- Create an electronic storybook by drawing on the screen, uploading images, recording sound effects and voice, laying out the elements of the story (text boxes, images, paint, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize, reordering pages, and uploading to the StoryKit web server. Email a link to the story. The application includes four public domain children’s books to rewrite and rearrange into a new story. Available on the iPad and iPod.
Table of Contents
Here is a compilation of the best lists I've found:
Comics
Make Beliefs Comix
ToonDoo
Pixton
Books
http://www.bookemon.com/http://storybird.com/about/
http://littlebirdtales.com/home
http://www.utellstory.com
Video tools
Vimeo -Upload your videos here for free in high quality and to embed in a blog or wiki.Dvolver - Create a video writing your text and choosing your characters and scene.
Go!animate Put words into your figure's mouth.
Roxio - Turn your photos into a video.
Smilebox - Create videos from your pictures and videos adding design and music.
Sketchcast - Record a sketch with or without your voice.
Fotobabble- Create videos with audio and your voice. Free mobile app for IOS.
Skqueak- Create videos with audio and your voice. Draw on your pictures. Free mobile app for IOS.
BiteSlide- digital slidebooks with images, videos, and text. Collaborate & edit.
Film-making tools for smartphones:
(taken from edutopia.org)Andromedia Video Editor (Android: Free)
iMovie (iOS: $4.99)
Magisto Video Editor & Maker (Android: Free)
iMotion HD (iOS: Free, Upgrade Available)
Resources for your stories:
SafeshareTv - Share Youtube videos without ads and crop them.Musicshake - Create copyright free music for your video.
Compfight - Search Flickr photos for your videos.
MorgueFile - Find free pictures for your videos.
Free Music Archive - Jamendo - RoyaltyFreeMusic - Find free music.
SoundBible - FreeSound - Find sound effects.
Storytelling apps (for tablets and smartphones)
Prezi for on your computer or your portable device- this is an alternative to ppt and is very appealing and flexibleDoodlecast - you can draw and write or add pictures and record the screen as well as your voice.
PhotoPeach App- Upload images, enter text, and add music to create a dynamic slideshow. Available on the iPad.
Capzles App- Upload images, audio, video, text, and documents to create a multimedia timeline of events. Available on i-devices.
Toontastic- This app is designed to walk students through the storytelling process of choosing a scene, climax, setting, conflict, and characters. Students even choose music to match the characters’ emotions and create a digital storytelling video that is shared on their global digital storytelling online channel where the students win badges for their creations. Available on the iPad and iPod.
Story Wheel- an educational game in which players record a story by spinning the wheel to get a picture, and then narrate a portion of the story. Students can listen to their story with beautifully animated pictures.
StoryRobe- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos. You have the option to upload to Youtube or send it through e-mail. If it’s in their e-mail, then the parents can easily e-mail their child’s production to their friends! You don’t need an Internet connection to create the stories, but you do to send them! Available on the iPad and iPod.
Splice- Best video editing app for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad that is free. Add audio, transitions, images, and more.
Fotobabble- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos.
Puppet Pals- Choose the western characters, personalize the characters by adding your voice, select the scene and props, and record a video. Send this by email or upload to Youtube. Available on the iPad and iPod.
StoryKit- Create an electronic storybook by drawing on the screen, uploading images, recording sound effects and voice, laying out the elements of the story (text boxes, images, paint, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize, reordering pages, and uploading to the StoryKit web server. Email a link to the story. The application includes four public domain children’s books to rewrite and rearrange into a new story. Available on the iPad and iPod.
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/222323?present=true
Storyboards
Digital Storytelling Bibliography For Further Reading
Free Ebooks:
Digital Storytelling Tools by Silvia Tolisano
Digital Storytelling: Tips and Resources by Dr. Gail Matthews DeNatale
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom by MicroSoft
Blogs and Websites:
The Art of Telling Digital Stories by Bernajean- One of the best resources with assessment advice and a scoring guide generator to customize
Making Stop Motion Movies by Kevin Hodgson- another fantastic resource where you can download the various storyboarding worksheets to use with students.
Digital Storytelling and the Common Core by Kevin Hodgson
Animating Stories by Marisa Constantinides
Digital Storytelling Category in Ozge Karaoglu's blog
Engaging Learners through Digital Storytelling: 40+ Resources & Tips by Shelly Terrell
Sharing Stories: The Power of Storytelling 2.0 Projects for Student Voice by Shelly Terrell
Stories on the Go: Digital Storytelling on Mobile Devices by Shelly Terrell
Digital Storytelling apps