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Words and pictures and storytelling

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 [...]

Archival photos, civil war music, great slide show

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 [...]

Voting time in the StoryTubes video contest

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 books. And [...]

Linda’s Animoto video of Tech Camps

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 visual [...]

Storytelling, Slide Sharing and WebSlides

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 text [...]