Jan 13th, 2010
by pollyalida.
I love words and pictures and storytelling. And I love playing with tools that help us tell our stories. So it’s no surprise that I’m having great fun playing with Flickr Poet from Stories in Flight which I discovered last week from a colleague’s flickr stream. Pop in a poem, song lyrics or just random [...]
Mar 18th, 2009
by pollyalida.
Kris Abery (CT State Library) did a great slide show today for their CT 23 things project. Photos from the CT State Archives, Civil War music from the Digital History project and Microsoft Photostory to put it all together. Then posted to blip.tv and embedded in her blog post. All free tools and services. And [...]
May 6th, 2008
by pollyalida.
Congratulations to the seven children in New York State who submitted videos about their favorite books to the nationwide StoryTubes video contest. All the New York State entries have been posted to the NYS Summer Reading Program web site. To enter the contest, children in grades 1 to 6 made short videos about their favorite [...]
Nov 12th, 2007
by pollyalida.
Hey tech campers! Linda did a terrific video with photos from all the tech camp sessions. She used Animoto to create it. Give it a whirl with your own photos. This would be a fun way for students to create short videos of their art work, a portfolio of projects, videos of events. A good [...]
Nov 1st, 2007
by pollyalida.
At the school library tech camp session last weekend, some of us got talking about using Web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling. I decided to play with a few tools and create a new page about storytelling on my wiki: http://lib20.pbwiki.com/resources-storytelling The tools all take your photos or images and let you add audio and/or [...]