Enhance curriculum, increase student achievement, and learn creative new ways to develop innovative lessons with the use of the iPod. The purpose of this presentation is to provide educators with exciting new skills to enable them to utilize iPods as tools for classroom instruction. Participants will learn how easily the iPod can be integrated into all content curriculum areas to engage students, increase achievement, and foster creative learning

There are numerous ways to introduce digital storytelling into a classroom.

Of course, writing and telling stories using digital media brings up a host of questions that relate to narrative and structure, how you approach a lesson and maneuver around technical problems.

Las calles de Buenos Aires
ya son mi entraña.

My soul is in the streets
of Buenos Aires.

Images of words to be used in digital storytelling

Single Word images

# Another approach is to consider creating digital images of words, then using these to build your story. A good introduction to this idea is to explore 6 or 10 word written stories with students first. This teaches economy of language, and will help them to develp a more complete narrative within the restrictions that Animoto offers.

We have made more amazing poetry videos using the animoto website. First we looked at our third William Carlos William poem of the year. Previously we wrote poems based on "A Locust Tree in Bloom" and "This is Just to Say". This time we had fun with "A Red Wheelbarrow".

Stories told in just six words.

Brevity is a virtue.

This is a collection of short short stories consisting of just six words. It was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous challenge.

To resize your images it is as simple as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!

1. Browse your computer and select your image/photo to resize
2. Select the new size for your picture – use a preset or choose a custom size
3. Optionally, add an effect to your image
4. Select output image/picture quality Lower quality means a smaller file
5. Click "Resize" and wait for the processed images to be displayed