For me, the Digital Storytelling tools were a chance to revisit many of the tools we already use at TAE. My kids love using 'cool' technology for their presentations and so we try and shy away from the traditional PowerPoint and use a variety of web tools to tell our tales!
We recently used Animoto for science videos, Prezi to create poetry in motion, and Toondo for Spanish cartoons. We also use MovieMaker quite a bit to do some of our larger and longer projects. I find that my students are much more engaged when using these Web 2.0 tools than when they use PowerPoint. I've also used Animoto to create a presentation about our library for the Board of Education. It was very well received and went a long way to showing folks who aren't present in our schools on an every day basis what really happens 'in the lib' as we say! I also have a Prezi embedded on my library website.
Check out some of our projects and links:
www.heightsschools.com/taelibrary (Prezi)
http://animoto.com/play/A1V0AXVTRxEoOcwmtp1chQ (Animoto TAE Library promotion)
http://animoto.com/play/mVNfcegztwLpA656OufxWg (Animoto Sources of Strength video for students)
http://animoto.com/play/mK03E4kZxzPli1YCkYR9EQ Animoto Integrated Science video)
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