Digital+Stories

Digital Stories
These stories can be created for every subject across the curriculum by students of all ages and ability levels.

Methods for creating Digital Stories
PC & Mac: Use of Power Point with Jing - http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ Tutorials @ @http://www.techsmith.com/learn/jing/

Mac Only: Use of iMovie - View following tutorials @ @http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/ Adding Photos to Your Movie Adding a VoiceOver to Your Movie Adding Background Music to Your Movie

PC Only: Use of Movie Maker - Windows Live Movie Maker Teacher's Guide

Where to Store and Share your Digital Story Online
Create your own Blog to share your stories at https://www.blogger.com/start

Store your stories and link them to the blog, a wiki page, or other website at https://www.dropbox.com Dropbox allows you to backup your files online, file sync, and share easily.

Create an RSS feed so that your digital stories and other podcasts can be downloaded to iTunes at feedburner.google.com

Place-Based Digital Stories
Examples of Place-Based digital story class projects; possible themes; suggested websites Rubric and directions for creating a digital story

Power Point & Jing Examples
 * media type="file" key="Tn State for fun.swf" width="360" height="270" || media type="file" key="womeninhistory.swf" width="360" height="270" ||
 * [[file:TN Digital Story transcriptfunyversion.pdf]] ||  ||

Fall 2010 Social Studies Methods Blogs with Digital Stories

[|DigitalStoryBlog.pdf]