April 25, 2012

233 – Digital Storytelling

51 minutes

This week on the WELSTech Podcast we define Digital Storytelling in education and share tools and examples of this creative expression format.

The discussion:

Tell me a story – Gail Potratz, WELSTech’s semi-regular classroom technology correspondent from Emanuel in New London, WI, joins Martin and Sallie and the discussion focus is digital storytelling including its definition and the many resources available to help students create in this popular format.

Sample rubric for evaluating digital stories

Bernajean Porter’s Digitales

Storyboard templates

Digital Storytelling with the iPad

Tools for digital storytelling

Animoto – Sample

Voice Thread

Book Creator

Story Wheel

ReelDirector – Sample

Blurb Mobile

Ministry resources:

(25:20) Should Your Church Have a Blog

Picks of the week:

(27:43) Fotobabble – iOS app

How to enable Diigo bookmarking in Safari on iPad (video) – Diigo instructions

Windows Live SkyDrive

Of interest:

(38:54) FinalWeb training – This summer we’re offering online training on web site creation and maintenance using the FinalWeb system. And, for the first time, we’ll be using Google Hangouts!

FinalWeb for Teachers – July 9 or 16 – bit.ly/fw4t2012

FinalWeb for Dummies – July 10-12 or July 17-19 – bit.ly/fw4d2012

A new channel for WELSTech – Listen now on Stitcher Smart Radio

Community feedback:

(42:05) Internet Evangelism Day is April 29th

Links shared in the WELSTech Diigo group this week include …

AudioJungle

Seven Gmail Add-ons That Make Email Suck Less

Art coloring pages

Top Five Ways to Build a Bad Church Website

Cybraryman Catalogue of Educational WebSites

Coming up on WELSTech:

(47:24) Episode 234 – Just in time for the many graduation and summer vacation photos opportunities, Martin and Sallie countdown the 7 Best Photo Organizing and Editing Tools. (Release date – 05/02/12)

The featured artist:

(49:01) We close the podcast with the instrumental music of In His Service (www.adagioconcepts.com) – Send Me from their CD titled “In His Time”

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