1. Ag379uzDIGITAL STORYTELLING=(Step1:Story
Strategy, Step2:Story Development,
Step3:Story Implementation) Authentic
Audience/family
Why:
1. Parental connection to school: Prents see children’s
writings an videos, pics,hear voice
2. Learning Fun & Fresh and maintain motivation
before/during/after projects: Video of kids holding up
their story after complete, Video kids working on science
project
3. Authentic Audience: Publish to parents/friends can
see..Kids write/illustrate and read their story online.
4. Collaborate: Publish student writing so others can help
edit because editing is so time consuming. Science Fair
mentors can see student progress and verbally comment
on VoiceThread
5. Science Fair: Parents can post questions on Wiki? Post
the science fair booklet and requirements on a website,
blog, or wiki?
Parents: Blog, Website, or Wiki? Maybe
Scholastic website and put a link on their to a
video sharing site, or powerpoint/slideshare,
storybird, Piclit,
Scholastic My Class Home Page 11/1/07
Teacher signin: maschmidheiser
Maggie
Parent: User Name: PrinceHall
Password: Room211

2. Need .MOV converter..Download free VIDEO
CONVERTER from camera’s .MOV to Power
Point (AVI, MPEG and WMV) or Wiki (
NEED TO PUBLISH (wiki, class website, blog,
project in class) THEIR WORK SO OTHERS
(PARENTS,FRIENDS,PRINCIPAL,
AUDITORIUM) CAN SEE
Text…Let stressed student routinely text parent
to maintain good behavior (iep goal)
Project super big images on wall that kids can
mentally ‘enter’ into…Ex. A colonial background,
plant parts that they can point to, their
illustrations from digital camera for their
stories, big scanned photo of their father,
Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html
Google Docs - Students and teachers can create documents, spreadsheets and
presentations and then collaborate with each other in real-time right inside a web
browser window. If you need to create email addresses for your students There are a
number of free email clients (Gmail at http://mail.google.com being one) that will allow you to
create accounts for each of your students, or allow your students to create an account for
themselves.Please note: Students must be 13 or over to use Google Docs
Google Sites - Create a class site and edit it the same way you'd edit a
document -- no technical expertise required. Your site can bring together all the
information you want to share with your colleagues and students, including docs,
calendars, photos, videos and attachments.
IT decision-makers: learn more about Google Apps Education Edition

3. Google Docs COLLABORATION
schmid5@verizon.net ag..zz
ME: maschmidheiser@philasd.org ag..zz
STUDENTS: princehalldoc@gmail.com phall6101
How diff than Wiki? Group Edit writing!! Uses
gmail email..must recipients have gmail acct?
Can include drawing? Or I write beginning of a
doc. Share it thru googledoc by adding emails. Emailed people can
make changes directly to the doc instead of me attaching then looking
at their changes and me having to go back to the original and make their
changes. Time saver.
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Use for Thanksgiving dinner Build class or project websites without using HTML, so
everyone can contribute and learn. From Google Docs, I opened my doc > sharing settings >
Can set read only or edit access> bottom added email addresses > Share…Person 2 gets email,
open doc, make changes,save, Share(top right), send msg to collaboraters.
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Aug 2010 New gmail acct for student docs:
address:princehalldoc@gmail.com pass:
phall6101
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Sign in Http://mail.google.com/
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“Type with Me”
Google Presentations embed in Google Docs &
present like power point?Create and share presentations on the
web. Add text, images, video and more directly to your presentation slides. 8/10 unable
to insert video
Slideshare maschmidheiser ag..
Brainshark ma… Add audio to Power Point NEED TO RECORD
THRU PHONE ….NO GOOD
Prezi.com (slides can zoom into small detail)
Irony, Compare,contrast, etc Give book def, your own def, 2 examples (4 square model)
Google Video 10GB free private video sharing
Google Sites with videos,images,docs

4. Power Point 07-Write story (Keynote $25 Mac’s
Power Point) Only video in formats of AVI, MPEG and WMV can be inserted
in this way. How to: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-knowledge/insert-video-into-
powerpoint2007.html
Slideshare/maschmid ag = Looks like Powerpoint
online…don’t think it takes videos Match with
voice:
Brainshark
Word..MAKE A DICTIONARY…find pics for new
vocab words and write sentences.
Digital Camera/iMovie/iPhoto: Kids
write story. Illustrate. I take pic and import
into Word, or Blog, or Wiki so another student
can add to their story, and parent can see.
Upload video from my camera to iphoto then tried to add to Scholastic
website, Online activities>Add attachments>Add a new image or
document>add attachment (can attach Jpeg or Doc but no MOV
(movie)..so need to put movie on Wiki first then put wiki link on website?
Wiki…PrinceHall Pass:grade3(
COLLABORATION…Wikispaces acct set up 8/10)
for my class so kids can show their work to
parents and parents/everyone can make
changes. Benefit: Get more help edit writing…
coordinate science projects w/mentors.
Scrapbook..way to save all kids’ work..I can
limit to our class

5. PrinceHall, Edit, Widget, Video..Can’t add video
from MyPic..must be from
YouTube,GoogleVideo..
So where can student store their work?

6. Storybird – maschmid.. 8/10: My book “First
Day of School”
Bookemon: Nick: princehall ag… Students
create/purchase books. Can other people make
comments on your book?
**PicLit.com Group write..Postcard pic..This
site offers vocabulary word ideas. 1 sentence,
site gives you words GREAT FOR WEAK
WRITER
**Blabberize…animal speaks works I say or type.
Use as funny intro to lesson. Say, “Shout out
to Qyikneef for a great story” When recording..hit red
circle to record then play to listen(Choosing an image;Post full size bing
pic to desktop from Bing first cause their ‘browse’ won’t open internet)
Story from an animal’s POV, Present science project, understand facts
about animals,plants,rocks…not easy to link or email. They recommend
just sending people right to Blabberize website.
**Voki (8/8/10 Voki for Educators..masch..
ag..): Avatars..kids create their own…kids read
a story into mic then their avatar reads it back
Select ‘Create’ up top…But I have little control on my character style.
Must ‘roll the dice’ icon and the site picks it. 90 seconds max recording
WAV MP3

7. Wow!!!!Embedded my Voki Don’t Give Up Dog on Scholastic…Can have kids
do a weekly Voki to update the site. I also emailed the dog voki to my
school email so kids can email to home
Type in your text or say into microphone.
Glogster: Digital Poster, includes writing,
photos, and video NICE Nick:princehall pass:
ag..
Animoto: My Classroom Code: da6ce0 (last digit
is zero, not letter o) Download still pics, choose their song,
it creates a video (No writing, no talking, but maybe use to show science
fair participants, how can I use to improve academics?)
Story Something: SO SO Can personalize a
prewritten story then read online. kids can’t write
their own story, they’re reading a prewritten story that might be too
difficult. You change character names to your choice but it doesn’t
correct for ‘his, her’.
VoiceThreads..COLLABORATION AND STUDENT’S
VOICE $60/year Just still pics, don’t see any videos.
This will need practice at home. Pic and text or
recorded. Post pic or videos and people voice their
comments about it. Can use clipart instead of
scanning to save time on first projects. Copy the
existing 4th gr project about student family history “I
am from… and kids draw pic of themselves which I
scan in and they each read their life history”

8. Writing component: Student needs to write their
narration in advance but you won’t SEE their writing.
(Bing Image…don’t let the kids look themselves…
it’s got dirty pics…Create a clipart folder or put
on the filter that Bing offers – see ‘clipart’
folder on laptop desktop),
Twitter: World community. Spanish teacher
tweeted” What’s favorite food?”
People around world answered
She projected their answers and kids read
it.
Blog (started one 8/10) or website
Goanimate
Xtranormal
Blabberize
Top 100 Tools 2009
1.Twitter
2. Delicious (store bookmarks online and share
w/students,colleagues,parents)
3. You Tube

9. 4.5. Google
Docs:Create,Store,share docs &
presentations and work
collaboratively
6. Wordpress: Blogging platform
7. Slideshare: Can store and share
presentations
9. Audacity 8/10 downloaded on
laptop: sound editor and recorder
for podcasts
11 Ning:Create your own private social
network $
14. Blogger: A way to start blog
19. VoiceThread: Group of still shots,
verbal, not written though could use camera to
take a pic of a written story but could you read
it?
Collaborative slideshows..lets you create collaborative
presentations by collecting comments (pick a student
w/agreeable parents, take pic of illustration, student
records story, then they write story…
Use camera to copy journal page, voice thread

10. To practice writing creatively.Using the computer and a publishing program
the student will write a story and use the six photos to illustrate it. The
student will write the story, import the images, save and print their story.
Create a cover for each of them to make them into small books. To take
home
Students write story, draw pics, video tape them reading their story next to
matching picture.
VIRTUAL REALITY
IMOVIE
POWER POINT
Project WALL SIZE HISTORICAL IMAGE..STUDENT STANDS IN FRONT
AND USES AS SETTING FOR CHARADES
WHAT WAS DAILY LIFE LIKE IN COLONIAL TIMES?
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KompoZer Easy Web Authoring ?? Creates a
website
Storybird: maschmidheiser (My First Day of
School booklet)
Storyjumper: Publish your own children’s books
Tikatok.com: Write, add pic, publish book
Hardcover $18
Big Universe schmid ag..z
Youtube: download at home onto flashdrive Ex
Chris Biffle’s rules and how to implement his
steps, Invictus poem
Kidthing.com
CarrotSticks

11. Kidzui.com Internet for Kids
Pikikids.com Make your own comics So..So
masch.. ag..
Comic Life
Doink.com create animations from your drawing but I only saw still
drawings at their site.
Sketchfu: draw anything and share with friends
Flockdraw.com Collaborative group draw
Genius Kids Books Library 3 Little Pigs
Audacious Software:Books
Wigflip.com Make your own speech bubble
Mr. Needleman.com Free s/w for teachers
BigUniverse Create books but can’t save w/o a
$80 membership Don’t need this site, use
‘Bookemon’ for free
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG TRADES, PUNISHMENTS
http://www.history.org/media/index.cfm
COLONIAL VIEWS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/history/panoramas.html
End of project-Project to big screen, go thru each item and explain to class
WIKI-anyone can edit anytime
Email is not good at coordinating a trip or dinner,
easy as erasing and rewriting on wh board
Need somewhere to work on essays together? A wikispace for a class is a great place for
students to post their work so that teachers and classmates can correct, improve, and discuss
their work.
A wikispace lets you post schedules, plans, and lists that the rest of your group can update and
edit any time they like
Keep track of what you've learnt about your latest passion in a Wikispace. By inviting others who
share your interest to the space you can build a better website than you ever could alone.

12. A wikispace is a great way to build a family website that the entire family can work on. Put up
family news, stories, and pictures and your family members can then update, add, and comment
helping it become the place you go to for family news. Wikispaces is so easy to use, everyone
can participate.
Manage Wiki, Upload Files, Pictures, iPhoto NO Good
Opened iphoto, selected pic, drag/drop to desktop THEN can ‘insert
files’ by typing the name of the photo
Video problem: Said my tiny iPhoto video of my living room was too big 25.6 mb though only a
few seconds!
Users>princehall1>Pictures>iPhoto library>2010>o8>09>Originals (held the .MOV video clip from
my camera)
VOICETHREAD
Could scan in pages of book and child reads it aloud to celebrate reading
accomplishments…practice reading a book for homework then prove he is ready
then scan pics. Challenges/Setbacks
As usual, with VoiceThread, the easiest part was uploading the images and
arranging the slides. The most challenging part of creating this VoiceThread was
to write a concise, informative and substantive narration.Tools: I used a hand-
held digital audio recorder (My Creative Zen or Digital camera or straight into
laptop?)to record my comments, then uploaded them onto VoiceThread because
my laptop's fan made an annoying buzzing sound in the background w! hen I
tried to record my comments directly into VoiceThread. Some of the invitations
got caught in our institution's spam filter and were never received by the guest,
but we muddled through. The thing that was most time consuming was scanning
the children's art work! A scanner, a microphone, and my laptop was all it took!
Have the students practice their poems several times before they come to you to
record. We had to re-do the recordings more than once due to mistakes. Also,
refresh VoiceThread after every couple of students - we had issues with the
recordings either not being saved or being cut off early for no apparent reason.
Eventually I would like to have the students make comments on each others
poems. I would like to give them some comment starters so that they can provide
supportive and kind feedback to each other. I would like to have students make
individual VoiceThreads with more hand drawn images of family and friends, and
then provide the background story with their voices. The hardest part was
getting all of the voices entered into the VoiceThread. We needed a quiet

13. room as our microphone picked up the slightest of noise (even recess noise with
our classroom door closed made its way into the recordings). We learned a new
phrase to keep our class quiet during the recordings: "Quiet on the set!"
embed the VoiceThread into our classroom blog so that the other students could
enjoy at their leisure. I also realized that this gave families at home a chance to
enjoy and recognize the uniqueness of our students.
Hardest: The hardest part was putting the VoiceThread together. This was my
first one and I was learning as I went along. I messed up with not uploading their
images first so they could select their picture before they recorded their
VoiceThread. add images of everyone who is going to be part of the VoiceThread
to your account before you start, or you can just use the VoiceThread avatars.
My students preferred having their own image connected to thei Currently, we
accept image types: JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, doc types: PPT, PPS, PDF, DOC, XLS and
varying video formats (my camera videos are .MOV format). Since VoiceThreads can
zoom in and out on images and documents for detail, we recommend your images be at
least 1280x960 (which a 2mp or higher camera can produce).
Think of an identity as your VoiceThread personality. Each time you leave a voice or text
comment, your VoiceThread will attach your identity to the comment. By creating more
identities you can share a single account with an entire family, so the whole group can
comment on a VoiceThread without ever having to sign into another account. This
feature is really great for parents or teachers who wish to monitor a child or student as
they leave comments in a VoiceThread, or for those of you who enjoy wearing costumes
and role-playing. One thing to remember is that all identities share the same account, and
so there is no privacy between identities. If you would like a totally private account, we
would recommend that you simply register a new account. Here's a 1 minute tutorial on
making and managing Identities.
There are several ways to share a VoiceThread, the most common is wherever you see
the word 'Share' you can click it to open up your list of friends and decide who to send
invitations to (Free accounts can send 50 per day, while VoiceThread Pro accounts can
send 500). If someone is not on your friends list yet, it's easy to add them, all you need is
their email.
Timeshare: the slide show won't upload at all until you turn it into a real live Movie
first. You may unfortunately need QuickTime Pro which I think costs $25 last time I
checked. After you've upgraded you'll be able to 'Export' your Slide Show as a movie,
I would choose h.264 as the video codec and if you have any control over the size you'll
want to make it 600 X 450 pixels.
JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, are all acceptable image types that you can upload into a
VoiceThread. Because a VoiceThread can zoom in and out on images and documents,
we recommend your images be at least 1280x960 (which a 2mp or higher camera can
produce) so that when you zoom in on an image it appears crisp and detailed

14. 1. There are a number of 'container' formats like QuickTime, WMV, and AVI, that
are like an envelope containing the video; i.e. a QuickTime movie can be encoded
by close to 40 different codecs. We can convert the vast majority of them but not
all, so I can't say we can accept 'all' QuickTime, wmv, or avi videos, but we do
accept most. Unfortunately a little trial an error is the only way to know for sure;
we're constantly adding to the list of file types we support. Having said that, we
can definitely recommend the best format, both for us to convert as well as
produce the highest quality possible. There are only two key parameters:
o Use the H.264 codec to encode or compress your videos
o Upload videos that precisely match the native size of a VoiceThread
which is 600 X 450 pixels.
For the video that's fresh from your camera you might have to do the same, export it
again, as an h.264 video. We're adding video types that we can convert all the time but
unfortunately the list is remarkably long;(convert Flip videos to a compressed format
usable for emailing, I can then upload to VoiceThread Free Video to MP3 conversion
is part of the VideoSoftFreeStudio I already have.
Project: Prince Hall…
Tuskeegee Airmen and contact the airmen that know Prince Hall
Local musicians West Oak Lane Jazz
Police..35th district
Bully…Get Nelson Floyd, Anthony Cobb, Ruben,Brian Savage,Demetrius
Cardwell to make comments
Behavior..Show videos of good and bad behavior…pics of kids acting right around
the bldg…bully
Parents could comment…Used as a meeting place to discuss images.
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Comic Life $20
1. Biography 1 person
st
2. Historical Event:Timeline, Key events
3. Characters,Problem,Solution: Use as outline
for a larger story
4. Weather story from perspective of person
experiencing it
5. Invention and how it has effected people,
ourworld,

15. 6. Story from animal or insect, rock, plant, ear’s
POV
7. Take story and change the setting.
8. Change ending to story
9. Explain body organ’s pov
10.Bring a poem to life
11.BULLY STORY…HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEM
12.Share cultural bkgrnd of family
13.Make me feel…
14.Timeline a day in the life of a slave
15.How-to
16.Rock cycle
17.