Free Webinar - Five Fun Uses of Comics In the Classroom

Back in January and February I conducted a couple of free webinars about digital storytelling with comics. Storyboard That has offered to sp...

How to Use Little Bird Tales for Digital Storytelling in Elementary School

Little Bird Tales is one of the replacements for Kerpoof (closing on April 15th) that I recommended yesterday in this post . Little Bird Ta...

Webinar Recording - Empowering Elementary Learners With Technology

Earlier today I posted a list of alternatives to Kerpoof  which is shutting down on April 15th. Shortly after I posted that list Beth Hollan...

Storytelling Tips from the Producers of BBC Explainers

BBC Explainers are short explanatory videos produced for the BBC. Through Lee LeFever's recent post I learned about the process used to...

Kerpoof is Closing - Here Are Some Alternatives

Kerpoof is closing on April 15th. This week I've had a few requests to share some alternatives to Kerpoof. The following resources offe...

Augmented Reality + Avatars + Video = Fun Storytelling

This week at NCTIES 2014 I've learned as much I've shared. One of the highlights for me was seeing teachers combine the use of multi...

An iPad App, Android App, and Web App for Drawing Animated Comics

Earlier today in my NCTIES workshop about creating media with mobile apps we talked about having students create comics to tell a story. Tw...

Free Webinar - Digital Storytelling With Comics

Last month I hosted a free webinar on digital storytelling with comics. More than 100 people attended the live session. Next week on Februar...

Webinar Recording - Digital Storytelling With Comics

On Monday I published a short guide to digital storytelling with comics . This evening I gave a free webinar presentation based on that free...

Free Webinar - Digital Storytelling With Comics

In a previous post I featured my new ebook Digital Storytelling Projects With Comics . In that post I included a mention of a free webinar t...

PixiClip - A Great New Tool for Creating and Narrating Drawings

PixiClip is a great new tool tool for creating, narrating, and sharing drawings. PixiClip provides a whiteboard space on which you can draw...

5 Fantastic Apps for Digital Storytelling on iPads

This is a guest post from Samantha Morra of EdTechTeacher.org Computers, and the digital tools on those computers, brought video editing to ...

Create 100 Frame Animations on ABCya Animate

ABCya Animate is a fun new tool from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here). ABCya Animate allows students to create animated GIFs containi...

Create Picture Stories With Phrase.it

Phrase.it is a free image manipulation service that I tried out earlier this year. Phrase.it allows you to add speech bubbles and some basi...

Best of 2013 So Far... Why Visuals Matter In Storytelling

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

Best of 2013 So Far... Three Books & Videos About Creating Better Presentations

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

Making Videos In the Common Craft Style - Rubric Included

A couple of years ago I had students in one of my classes create Common Craft -style videos to tell the story of Lewis and Clark. I was remi...

Vimeo Video School - Storytelling the Stillmotion Way

Stillmotion is a video production company based in Oregon. Last month they produced a series of videos all about how to tell stories throug...

How to Create Multimedia Projects Using Mozilla's Popcorn Maker

Mozilla's Popcorn Maker is a free tool for crafting videos that incorporate images, remixed video clips, links, and social feeds. It ca...

New Tools Added to Wideo - Create Better Animated Videos

Wideo is a video creation tool that has impressed me since the first time that I tried it in February . Last month Wideo added a voiceover ...