Digital+Storytelling

=Our students use a variety of tools to create digital stories. I would like to share with you some of the techniques we have discovered to improve the design of our stories.=



**Resources:** Activity Structures for Digital Storytelling to Educate and Inform. Content created by Candace Figg,PhD. West Texas A&M University __[]__ Electronic Portfolios [] The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. University of Houston, TX. [] []
 * TU Students -Sample stories created by per-service teachers**

Create word clouds with Wordle. [|http://www.wordle.net] (Remember to screen capture –ALT, PrintScreen—paste intoPowerPoint and save as a single image.)
 * Cool Tool:**

Sounddogs __[]__ Click on ‘preview mp3’ to listen. Right click, preview mp3, ‘Save Target as’ to save in project folder. Soundboard __[|http://soundboard.com]__ Choose category—try Science. Search a topic. Playlist to preview; Download track, choose track. Free Play Music__[|http://freeplaymusic.com]__ Choose ‘style’ or ‘feel’; click on mp3 to open and preview or save.
 * Free Sounds:**