Resources

=Workshop Slides - this workshop was held for OTF Summer Program 2011 and will provide ABEL attendees with some more resources:=

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=Wouldn't your students like to do this?=

Watch this wonderful example of stop frame animation from a group of Grade 8 students (music written, performed and produced by students).

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Here's a Grade 4 submission from first time digital storytellers:

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 * A Special Lady by Christina Rzazewski []
 * Claymation Samples From Tech4Learning
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 * How to Animate a Rolling Ball []
 * The Fox and the Owl []
 * Do I Belong Here? []
 * Grass Born []
 * Hidden []
 * Aunt Patty [|auntpatty_t1.mov]
 * The Horseshow [|horseshow_t1.mov]
 * Trent [|trent_t1.mov]
 * [] - how the Winnipeg School System created digital storytelling projects
 * http://www.dtc.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/studentstories.html- examples from Kentucky schools

Digital Storytelling Experts....Learn from them!

 * 1) Ontario Educator Kent Manning is doing some great work with teachers and students around digital storytelling [|http://digitalstory.ca]
 * 2) [|www.digitales.us] Bernajean Porter's Gorgeous Site to help you get started with Digital Storytelling
 * 3) Check out David Jakes' site for great Digital Storytelling resources []
 * 4) Jason Ohler []
 * 5) [|www.todaysteacher.com/ digitalstorytelling.htm] A great teacher resource, especially with .pdf files that are very useful for work with your students
 * 6) [] - probably the best overall site I've found for teacher resources, especially his first hand experience about how to introduce and conduct DS projects with Grade 7's and 8's
 * 7) An excellent tutorial about the 7 elements of Digital Stories []
 * 8) What Kids Can Do [|http://www.whatkidscando.org/specialcollections/adobeyouthvoices/index.htm]
 * 9) Five Card Flickr Game []
 * 10) Alan Levine (@cogdog) 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story http://50ways.wikispaces.com/

=Helpful Handouts= [|Frames4_digital_stories.pdf] Claymation [|Making_Claymation_in_the_Classroom.pdf] [|Digital_Storytelling_Workshop_Manual.pdf] Alan Engle, Innovative Teaching Concepts [|Tips and Resources.pdf] [|VPS.pdf] Visual Portrait of a story - Jason Ohler [|SevenElements.pdf] Centre for Digital Storytelling [|Take Six copy.pdf] Elements of a Good Story - Bernajean Porter Adobe Youth Voices Essentials - Adobe Youth Voices Essentials is a set of open curricula and resources for educators. Chroma Key with Frames 4 [|recipes_365001.pdf]

=Storyboarding=

[|storyboard.pdf]- Storyboard pdf that you can download [|StudentRubric.pdf] [|plan_multimedia-proj.pdf] [|plantre.pdf] [|plansht.pdf] [|Storybd.pdf] [|Storyboard1 for Comic Life.pdf] [|Storyboard_2.pdf] [|Storybd.pdf] [|storyboard.pdf] [|Story Boarding Template.pdf] [|qapec.pdf] Persuasive Storytelling Framework - Courtesy of Kent Manning

=Using other sound editing software= Sometimes you might want to use Audacity an open-source software that allows students to record and edit their stories before adding the audio to Frames 4 Watch a 15 minute screencast tutorial to learn how to use Audacity from Tony Vincent: @http://azk12.org/downloads/blogimages/Audacity_Screencast.mov media type="youtube" key="X1lPvBY_ri8?rel=0" height="390" width="480"

Here is a great website for help with Audacity [|http://www.people.vcu.edu/~cjbaedke/iWeb_Audacity/Audacity/Welcome.html] How to record [|Audacity - Record HO.pdf] How to edit recordings [|Audacity EdTech - Editing HO.pdf] How to clean up noise in a recording [|Noise Removal HO.pdf] More online tutorials about Audacity [] How to download and install the Lame Encoder []

Need a sound booth for recording? Here's one idea for a DIY version: [] [|recipes_365001.pdf]