This post is part of Digital storytelling   and Digital Storytelling part 2  

Some tools to write digital stories

Storybird is a wonderful site with loads of beautiful illustrations. You can search from the tags, choose your artist and start your story. If you need a tutor to tell you how to use it, visit Russell Stannard’s Teacher Training Videos

Bookr and Bubblr from www.pimpampum.net are easy to use tools compared to storybird.

GoAnimate is a wonderful online animation creator and it is very easy to use. Your students will choose their characters and tell a story.

Pen and paper: Divide your students into groups. Choose a story type. Talk about all the phases of storytelling. Ask them to write the stories. Edit them if you like. Tell them to illustrate their stories. Tell them to scan or take photos of their illustrations. Tell them to create a power point with the text and the illustrations. Then upload the power points to a site like authorstream or slideshare and share.

For more details, read Silvia Tolisano’s Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators which I just came across while writing this post.