So Many Tools...
Cool Tools for School posted a great list of resources in their January 2016 article, "Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools":
Image search tools:
- Pixabay – For photo searching. All images are CC-licensed, free to use.
- PhotoPin – Very easy to use and searches a number of sources for CC licensed photos.
- CC search – search for images, video and music from one search page.
- Flickr advanced search – Under the “any license” dropdown, select the Creative Commons setting.
- Copyright Friendly Images – a list of resources from Joyce Valenza
- NYPL Public Domain Collection – Over 180,000 digitized items now in the public domain. Great resource!
- Copyright Friendly Music – a list of resources from Joyce Valenza
Storytelling tools:
The descriptions below came directly from each tool's website, unless otherwise specified. Most of these tools have a free account option (more limited than the paid version, but still useful); if there is not a free version, there is typically at least a free trial version.
The descriptions below came directly from each tool's website, unless otherwise specified. Most of these tools have a free account option (more limited than the paid version, but still useful); if there is not a free version, there is typically at least a free trial version.
Exposure
"You can easily create beautiful photo narratives that look amazing on computers, tablets, and mobile phones. Join Exposure today to get a profile and three free stories." Steller "Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours with photos, videos, and text." Storehouse "Turn a collection of photos and videos into a shareable story." Adobe Slate "Tell your story - just add text to your own photos or select from thousands on the web to make your story come to life." Animoto "Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life." Photopeach "Tell better stories online using photos. With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further." VoiceThread "VoiceThreaders are one of the most diverse communities in the world, and that is by design. Participate using your voice, video or text. Use a screen reader or caption your videos. Use any computer, device, or internet connection. Join in the way that works best for you." HaikuDeck Enter keywords of text on a slide, and the app searches Creative Commons images to fit your need. (Education version $5/month; free 7-day trial) bunkr "Bunkr is the fastest and best way to pull data and content from the web and put a presentation together. When you create your first slide, Bunkr will ask you to add content. Front and center, you will see buttons to pick the kind of content (like on Tumblr). Content can be an image, text, a video, a chart and more." - TechCrunch Present.me "Present.me is the fastest and easiest way to add video or audio to your document or presentation, so that who ever is viewing gets the whole story – as if you were in the room with them! Present.me makes it easy for teachers & students to show and tell online but with the same impact as being in the room together." Prezi "Unlike static slides, Prezi combines motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to engage your audience and help them remember your message." |
Powtoon
"Make education fun by bringing Awesomeness into the classroom. Create animated videos and presentations as easy as PowerPoint to help you inspire, engage and present with a WOW." Moovly "Make videos or presentations using library objects and free templates. Add your own images, sounds and video clips. Make educational videos to teach and learn new subjects, create attractive online lessons and tutorials and let students explore their creative side." Wideo "Wideo is an online animated video creation platform that allows you to create, edit, and share videos for free (or with paid subscriptions for better features)." Dipity "Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps." TimelineJS "TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet." StoryBird "Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories." Storify "Users search through multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into stories. Users can re-order the elements and also add text to help give context to the readers. Media organizations have used Storify in coverage of ongoing news stories such as elections and meetings and events." - Wikipedia Voki "Voki is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character. Voki characters can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals, and even yourself! Give your Voki a voice by recording with a microphone, using our dial-in number, or uploading an audio file." ToonDoo "ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool from Jambav. You can now just drag-drop or click to create comic strips that express your views, opinions, angst or to just have fun, loads of it!" |
There are, of course, more resources...
From CogDogBlog (Alan Levine): 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story