One of my ENG 315 students, Bradley Terrill, alerted me to this incredible list of digital storytelling resources. Given the success of the ABC Project with movie making, perhaps it is time to try some other tools for the next project!

Good to see everyone in NYC for NWP/NCTE. Happy Thanksgiving!

I am trying out VoiceThread and created a short piece about our ABC Project.

Edublogs won’t allow me to embed the project as a slideshow directly in a post, which is too bad (I tried the route told to Bonnie from VoiceThread folks), but I know that Edublogs people are wary of opening the doors to too many sites.

You can venture off to my VoiceThread Story and view/listen to what what I created there in just a couple of minutes. Please leave a comment or a voice narrative of your own, and add to my story (such as it is).

Kevin

I haven’t yet tried this site (but I will) called VoiceThread but it seems to be a place where you can create a mashup of audio, visual and use collaboration to do it. There is some potential here for online picture books, I think.

I don’t know if you can export the final document (is that even the right word anymore?) from the VoiceThread site or if you can embed in a place like Edublogs (prob not), however.

Here is what they say:

VoiceThread is a place to foster, capture, and then share the group conversations that surround evocative shared media. A mouthful but all true. People have always talked and shared the ideas inspired by evocative media, we all do it all the time, day in and day out, online and off. But there’s never been a particularly human interface for it on the web. Normal human conversations are overflowing with metadata, like who the speaker is, and all the known details of their history, and we humans are astute readers of and sponges for this information. But in order to reformat conversations for the web, we’ve stuck some dynamite in the middle of them, blown them up, picked up the various pieces, labeled them, and then reassembled them to try to recapture something of the original soul of a human conversation. It’s a bit like trying to recapture the experience of flight by re-assembling 98% of a crashed airplane’s parts, you can get the basic shape right, but the feeling your looking for will be elusive. So instead of trying to capture group conversations by re-assembling as many ‘parts’ as possible, we’re going to take a stab at doing the opposite, strip as much as possible away. We’re hoping that making a paper airplane and tossing it out a window will better capture the wonder of flight, than gazing at an exploded-diagram of an airplanes parts.

Let me know what you think as a possible device for telling stories.

Kevin