“We are our stories, we compress years of experience, thought and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves” Daniel Pink, a Whole New Wind
Digital storytelling, in short, using technologies to tell stories. It’s a great way to develop visual and media literacy, promote reflection, engage students in their own learning, improve speaking and writing skills, to collaborate, reflect and evaluate.
Here are the first 25 digital storytelling tools that you can use in your classes or just to tell your digital story. I’m sure you are already familiar with some of them and I hope you can find new tools to use.
With Slide
, you can create your slide shows with different skins, animations and transitions. You can also create guestbooks for your sites. It allows embedding.
SlideShare
lets you upload your powerpoint presentations and share it with others. You can add podcast to your ppts as well. You can embed it. It’s also a great site for improving yourself. There are good ppts ready for you to learn and get inspired.
Imageloop
is another site that lets you create slide shows with different animations, skins, transitions. You can add music, create a guestbook and embed it.
I’ve just written about ZimmerTwins
on my previous post. It’s the best way to create your digital cartoon and tell a story with it. I’m sure you and your students can create wonderful cartoons.
Pimpampum
is another site I’m a fan with its applications. The first one is Bookr
, you create online books using Flickr pictures. you can decide on the number of the pages and embed it or send the link to others. The second one is Phrasr
, you write anything you want and it finds images that match with each of your word. You can send the links to others. Great way to wish a birthday!! The last one is Bubblr
, create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story!
Create your beautiful slide shows and share them with the world with 280slides
.
Animoto
lets you create your videos less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest.
Animasher
allows you to make animations and to animate the pictures.
Voki
is a site where you can create your speaking avatar. You can record your voice, or you can use text to speech.
Voicethread
is the most famous digital storytelling tool. You add pictures or your videos and let others comment on it.
BubbleJoy
allows you to place yourself inside an interactive video greeting card that you can send to others.
I’ve mentioned about BombayTV
on my previous blog. It’s a tool for writing subtitles for Bollywood films. You can also record your voice or use text to speech application. There is also BombayTV2
where you can edit different scenes from Bollywood films together and add subtitles to them. ClassikTV
allows to put them different scenes together and add music+effects to it. Also, you can have a look at FuteBolTV
where you can add subtitles to football matches, you can record your voice as well.
With Animata
, you can create animations and backgrounds.
You can easily create a slide show from images anywhere on the web with BigHugeLabs
.
BigUniverse
is an engaging website. You can read book online or you can create your own and publish it.
BubbleSnaps
lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show.
Capzles
is a way to combine your videos,photos, blogs and mp3s into a multimedia storyline.
ComicBrush
lets you mix artwork and create comics from a fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and photos of yours .
Writeboard
is a shareable web based text that shows you every edit and let you go back anytime. It’s a great tool for collaborative storytelling.
With DandeLife
, you can keep record of the events of your past and present. You can add videos and pictures. It’s a great timeline and a online journal!
Here is the second part of 100 digital storytelling tools series.
DigitalFilms
is a website that lets you create your own film for free. You choose your background scene, characters, animated actions, dialogue, introduction and ending credits.
WebSlides
let you convert your feeds and bookmarks and present them as live web pages in an interactive slide show. It’s a great way to create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.
Dipity
is an online timeline that you can add videos and pictures.
Doink
is a great way to create your own stories and share them with others. You can create your own story from scratch or you can use other animated stories to create yours.
Empressr
is a media presentation tool. You can add pictures, videos, audios, music and share it with the world.
Jaycut
lets you edit your movies online.
Mixbook
allows you to create your collaborative photo books and albums.
Fix8
allows you to customize your on-screen virtual appearance in real time using avatar technology. In short, it’s a web cam technology that lets you animate yourself.
With FuzzWich
, choose your settings, characters. If you like, you can even customize your character with your face. You drag the character and decide on its move and create your animated film. You can also have a look at FuzzWichFridge
where you can play with magnetic words upon a fridge.
GoAnimate
is a site where you can create your own animations. You don’t need to have a drawing skill or know about Flash.
With LifeHabs
, you can create a sharable interactive timeline of the significant events in your life.
TimeGlider
lets you create your web-based timeline software to create and share history and project plans.
PhotoAlbum
lets you share and archive photos and videos. You can create your own albums with your photos,videos and add your text.
You can create your timeline with OurStory
, you can add photos,videos and write your text.
MyStoryMaker
allows you to create your own online story.
With SmileBox
, you can create scrapbooks and e-cards with using your pictures,videos, words and music to share it with the world.
You can create easy slide shows on PhotoPeach
and tell your story over photos.
You can decorate you pictures, add bubbles, create clips and photo galleries on PhotoShop.
Tikatok
is an online platform where you can write your story, illustrate it and publish your original story with others.
Slideoo
is the horizontal photo slide show for Flickr and Splashr
is a tool for presenting Flickr photos.
SlideStory
lets you share your photos with your narrated voice.
With Speechable
, you can upload and add speech bubbles to your photos.
You can create comic scripts with Toondo
.
Enjoy exploring those tools!