Digital Storytelling Resources from Classroom 2.0 Live (Oct 2014) — from speedofcreativity.org by
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…I facilitated a 60 minute webinar on Classroom 2.0 Live about digital storytelling. This was an “open mic” session, which is similar to facilitated conversations at EdCamps. The webinar is archived on YouTube, and referenced links are included in this LiveBinder.
These are some of the links I saved from the webinar, which were shared by participants. This was an excellent session and I learned about several new resources I’m anxious to try with my own students in digital storytelling projects!
- Murmur Project – Toronto (place-based digital storytelling using cell phones for playback)
- StoryboardThat – Web-based tool for project storyboarding
- BitStrips for Schools – comic -based digital storytelling
- Bay Farm School Digital Tour (using QR codes)
- 6th Grade Roller Coaster Physics Project
- Dot Day at Bay Farm Project
- Make Beliefs Comix
- The Cloud Coaster
- City of San Leandro History Walk (A Boy Scout Eagle Project)
- Digital Storytelling Pearltrees site by Shelly Terrell
- Voki (create speaking avatars)
- Morfo (free iOS app to turn a photo into a talking avatar)
- Tools for Screen Captures, Digital Storytelling, & Video
- Out of Eden Walk
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9 Free Tools For Digital Storytelling — from hongkiat.com by Fahad Khan
Excerpt from How Can English Teachers Benefit from Digital Storytelling Tools — from edtechreview.com by Prasanna Bharti
Digital Storytelling Tools for Students
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Creative storytelling with Storehouse — from blogs.elon.edu by Analise Godfrey (Storehouse was created by former Apple User Experience Evangelist, Mark Kawano)
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Over 40 web tools to create quizzes and polls in class — from educatorstechnology.com
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Theia
Introducing a new and exciting world view, Theia smart glasses naturally integrate augmented reality together with your reality using unique technology and seamless design.
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Platform lets users share documents with real-time audio comments — from springwise.com
Blrt is offering both real-time and anytime sharing of documents, with integrated drawing and voice commenting tools.
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The platforms that businesses most commonly use to communicate with both colleagues and clients — phone, email, face-to-face meetings and video chat — are typically only used one at a time. If it’s just a quick chat, you pick up the phone, if you need to send a document you send an email. But is there a way to make multimedia collaboration more seamless through a single platform? We recently wrote about Talko, which aims to make voice calls more like emails. Now a similar service, Blrt, is offering both real-time and anytime sharing of documents, with integrated drawing and voice commenting tools.
10 great iPad apps for teaching and learning piano — from educatorstechnology.com
Circle of Fifths – music theory reference
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30 Ways Google Glass Works in Classrooms [#Infographic] — from edtechmagazine.com by D. Frank Smith
From allowing student to connect virtually with peers and teachers to helping identify learning difficulties, the wearable tech has clear potential as an aid.
An App to Make Career Counseling More Like a Video Game — from chronicle.com by Rebecca Koenig
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Microsoft Research gives us a glimpse of future gaming with RoomAlive — from InterestingEngineering.com
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LinkedIn Introduces New Tools for Students Choosing Universities — from eduniverse.org by Philippe Taza
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Regardless of whether you agree with their criteria or the general practice of creating rankings, their newest initiative is undoubtedly an impressive leveraging of Big Data, applying complex algorithms to LinkedIn’s vast database of 313 million users to derive interesting conclusions for both students and those marketing higher education.
Lync to Become Skype for Business — from MikeBrandesAV.com
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Microsoft is rebranding it’s unified communication platform Microsoft Lync. Microsoft plans to retool their approach to unified communications, and launch under the name “Skype for Business” in 2015. Microsoft originally acquired Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011.
The Redmond, WA based software giant made significant strides into the Unified Communications space, offering a cost-competitive unified communications platform which included Telephony, Chat, Collaboration and Video Conferencing all from the desktop, laptop or tablet.
The 10 best creative apps for tablets — from Creative Bloq
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Over recent years, many great drawing and painting apps have become available for tablets and smart phones. Here’s our pick of the most comprehensive packages on the market.
This clever app scans and solves maths problems instantly using your phone’s camera — from businessinsider.com.au
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While it seems likely that most will use PhotoMath to sidestep actual learning, PhotoMath includes a “Steps” button that cleverly walks you through the steps from the original equation to the final answer.
Addendum on 11/2014 — some music-related apps from the November 2014 edition of The Journal: