A story can take many shapes and forms. In this course, we will explore a few of these forms under the umbrella of digital storytelling. We will explore various tools, technologies, and apps for creating stories. If you have never created a digital story or have little experience with digital storytelling, you are not alone. In a previous course I taught 280 teachers from 80 different countries, 62% of them said they had never had their learners create digital stories, even though over 80% had access to technology (Terrell, 2012).

Educators now have 100s of fantastic free online tools to help their students create and learn through digital storytelling. Many of these online tools have free apps available on Apple devices (IOS) and Android devices. Through digital storytelling we motivate our learners to apply, contextualize, visualize, and personalize the knowledge they learn.

We have the opportunity to provide learners with access to various digital tools to craft and publish their stories. Digital tools enable students to tell their stories with images, audio, moving text, dynamic backgrounds, props, characters, and other multimedia. We will explore various applications and web tools that motivate learners to share their stories as comics, storybooks, videos, slideshows, and more. We will learn as our learners do by creating stories with the tools and sharing our stories with our peers.

Throughout the course, we will also explore the most effective ways to help our students learn about digital citizenship and literacy. We will also undergo the stages of a digital storytelling project from brainstorming to assessment.

Use this area to play with different digital storytelling tools and apps.

A list of resources for further exploration.

This is the rubric that will be used to assess your 321 Introduction assignment.

Digital Literacy, Citizenship and Internet Safety

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iKeepSafe C3 Matrix of Digital Citizenship

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This is the rubric that will be used to assess your Exploring Creative Commons assignment.

Sharing Stories Through Comics

This rubric will be used to assess your avatars by your peers in the corresponding forum.

You are invited to contribute to our Digital Storytelling Glossary, which showcases real examples of stories for various categories, created with various multimedia tools. Follow this link to contribute any stories you created during this module to the collection.

Do not forget to tweet your glossary entries. Use the course hashtag, #storytelling_INTEF.

Sharing Stories Through Video Storytelling

Making Videos on the Web: A Guide for Teachers by Richard Byrne

This is the rubric that will be used to assess your Video Editing Scene assignment.

Rubric to assess the Remixing Content for Digital Stories voluntary activity.

You are invited to contribute to our Digital Storytelling Glossary, which showcases real examples of stories for various categories, created with various multimedia tools. Follow this link to contribute any stories you created during this module to the collection.

Do not forget to tweet your glossary entries. Use the course hashtag, #storytelling_INTEF.

Collaborative Digital Storytelling

This is the rubric that will be used to assess your Global Digital Storytelling Presentation assignment.

You are invited to contribute to our Digital Storytelling Glossary, which showcases real examples of stories for various categories, created with various multimedia tools. Follow this link to contribute any stories you created during this module to the collection.

Do not forget to tweet your glossary entries. Use the course hashtag, #storytelling_INTEF.

Digital Storytelling with Mobile Devices

Download and complete this "I can" card template. 

You are invited to contribute to our Digital Storytelling Glossary, which showcases real examples of stories for various categories, created with various multimedia tools. Follow this link to contribute any stories you created during this module to the collection.

Do not forget to tweet your glossary entries. Use the course hashtag, #storytelling_INTEF.

This is one of the rubrics that will be used to assess your e-Portfolio Final Project Presentation.

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