Storytelling has existed since the beginning of time as a form of human interaction. It evolved from cave paintings and oral transmission of how and why our people existed and as an explanation of the world around us to troubadours who traveled the country to inform others of news and happenings of places and people [...]

Storytelling- Images of sitting around the campfire in the summer, the fireplace in your home in the wintertime, the dinner table with your family or saying good night to your children are conjured up in my head. Listening to fairy tales, passing a personal family story on from one generation to the next, creating a [...]

Storytelling used to be the only way to pass one generation’s knowledge on to the next one. Oral transmitted legends, fairy- and folk tales for example allowed elders to explain and help understand the world around them to their descendants. When books were scarce or did not exist and few knew how to read them, [...]

Windows Movie Maker is a program that already comes pre-installed on your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer.
Creating a movie in this program involves three basic steps:

Get started by clicking Start > Programs and then locating the MovieMaker icon

Double-click to launch the program.

You will want to use Windows Movie Maker if you have video [...]

Challenge #14 of the 31-Day Comment Challenge will be a first for me.
I am to turn my blog over to the readers. Ask a question and have YOU , the reader write the post through the comments.
I am in the process of developing a "How to Guide for Digital Storytelling for Educators ". See [...]

If you own a PC, you can download Microsoft’s PhotoStory for free .

To get started creating a story:

Download and install the program on your computer.
Once installed open the program by clicking “Start”, then “Programs”

Find the icon for “PhotoStory 3 for Windows”
Begin a new story by selecting the radio button and pushing the [...]

Two Flip Cameras by PureDigital arrived today at school, thanks to our wonderful Drama teacher, Mrs. B. I had to try it out, since I was interested in the quality and the level of intuitive use it had for in classroom and field trip application.
David Pogue from the New York Times reviewed this little [...]

Digital Storytelling Part I dealt with storytelling as being an ancient art form of teaching and why adapt and integrate this technique to support 21st century learning skills.
Part II will focus on available tools and how to choose the right one for a project.
The criteria for picking these tools were simple. The tools had to [...]

Storytelling has been a great part of our school year, which is already winding down. From…

telling about our and Jose, the travel bear ’s adventurous stories live while in Egypt
outfitting EVERY classroom in our school with their own digital cameras, so teachers and students could create a visual of their daily activities or create [...]

As of today my VoiceThread "What could it mean?" has had almost 1000 views and has drawn 357 voices. These voices are commenting on images from different countries, depicting a unique traditions, typical customs, distinctive perspectives, routines, habits and practices. Together they are painting a story how people from different countries and cultures can interpret [...]