Literacy Resources

I had forgotten, and then rediscovered photopeach!  Since I last visited photopeach has added the facility to include a quiz. Working Walls on PhotoPeach Children under 13 must have the registration form completed by a parent/guardian.  There are a myriad of uses for teachers.  What do you do with all those photos taken during trips [...]

  Unfortunately Flowgram announced that it was shutting down in June.   Linked posts Digital Storytelling

Many teachers are now using blogging with their pupils or students.  There are a whole range of types of blog post and these can be used to develop a range of writing styles and text types particularly in non-fiction writing.  These ideas have been taken from the slideshow The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging by rohitbhargava. Review blogging – [...]

I have been sharing ideas over the past few weeks about digital storytelling and have previously mentioned the website The Digital Narrative .  This site is such a wealth of information that I thought it would be worthwhile pointing out some of my favourite parts of this site. The front page is where updates about new [...]

I recently joined a fantastic group called Images4Education where as a very large, international group we are undertaking a six week course in using images in education.  Our task for week 3 was to use  some photographs and try out three slide shows; Animoto, Slideshare and BigHugeLabs.  I was already familiar with the first two so thought [...]

Using PowerpointPlex This is a downloadable add on for Powerpoint that means that you can set up slideshows that can travel through the slides in any order and can zoom in and out on any of the slides.  (This is a bit like the movement in Photo Story 3).  Have a look at it on [...]

Just so that you get some idea of the other tools that I will be covering in these posts, here are my top 10 tools for digital storytelling.  All of them are free to download.  What would you choose? MovieMaker Photo Story3 Audacity Animoto Voice Thread Myths and Legends Comic Life  (free for 30 day [...]

There is a lot of talk at the moment about Animoto.  This is a site that you upload your images to, you can now add text and add music and it will then turn  your pictures into a film zooming in and out of the images and changing the transitions. My question is how is [...]

A site that has listed all the resources that I was going to do over the month.  Well worth visiting. http://www.thedigitalnarrative.com/Flowgram.htm I will go through some of the resources in more detail but for those of you who are chomping at the bit – enjoy!