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50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story

Web 2.0 tools, usually free, but can disappear from the digital landscape.

1. Biographies with Blabberize:could use a triangle to describe its formulas; original song in music class; world language instruction; ;has an experimental SuperBlabber with scenes view. Check out the Plagiarism Yoda.
2. ToonDoo: a comic creator that could be used to create graphic novels; use your own media inside the tools ToonDoo.
3. PollEverywhere: a one-question poll for your mobile phone.
4. Go Animate:
5. OurStory: creates a story in a timeline or Xtimeline (xtimeline has embeddable code)
6. Capzles: captures multimedia within a story; see George Carlin. Could be a great resource for lab reports.
7. VoiceThread: collaborative commenting.
8. Jumpcut: originally for iMovie, web-based; you cannot upload your own media into it anymore
9. JayCut: in beta version; has 2 video tracks; cannot do voice overs yet; can upload your own media (audio and video); has 250 MB per movie but unlimited movies.
10. MyPlick: designed to line up a PowerPoint presentation; simplier than SlideShare; both have embeddable code.
11. xtranormal: sets your movie in a world; feels like a form of Second Life.
12. MyPresi: more features than PowerPoint; funky and new; can embed video; cognitive dissonance.
13. Twitter
14. Pixton
15. Camtasia
16. BlueHost
17. SnagIt: lets you take screen shots, capture audio/video and creates a .avi file.

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Steve Dembo
Teach 42
DEN PETE&C PreConference 2009
Digital Storytelling
Web 2.0
Discovery Educator Nertwork
Turbo Tagger