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Digital storytelling apps11/13/2023 ![]() Go ahead and make a social story or visual schedule for a child with autism or a slide show of holiday pictures for your friends’ ‘Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. Craft custom prompts and add profiles to personalize the experience! Simple save/share options.’ ‘Tell About This is an easy platform to inspire and capture children’s thoughts and stories! They will love to explore and respond to any of the 100 interesting photo prompts using their voice. ‘Create and share customized picture storybooks with photos of your child or others as the main character! Created by award-winning app designers, Kid in Story Book Maker makes it easy and fun to create visual stories to support learning, social modeling, and early literacy for all children.’ It can be used for both written and oral storytelling.’ ‘Story Dice is a creative writing prompt tool to come up with ideas for plot, character, and setting. The apps are simple and easy to use and provide learners with various materials and tools to help them create and enjoy what they create. To this end, we curated for you this collection of some of our favourite apps to engage elementary students in digital storytelling tasks. In this post, Greg models a more complex app smash to create and share student created multimedia on a blog (he uses blogger, but you can easily do the same in WordPress).Creating and sharing digital stories is a great way to engage students in a wide variety of literacy-related activities in class. In general, you can follow these steps to ‘smash’ ‘Greg-style’: Often, App Smashing is used in terms of collaborative content co-creation – a powerful approach! Imagine, students can each be creating parts of a production on their ipads, share to their camera roles, share via email or the cloud and then co-create a single project (or several complimentary projects perhaps!). What is an App Smash? – Greg Kulowiec shares the term in this blog post to describe the use of several different apps to allow students to create an enhanced multi-media project – in this case, a timeline for a social studies project. Try out a few different applications (ipad, tablet, smartphone and cloud) and see what you can create! Learn to engage your students in creating their own content using various apps. The following are some resources by Greg Kulowiec, who, I believe, coined the term ‘App Smashing’. I see huge potential with App Smashing for climbing the SAMR ladder! View this site for a ‘quick guide’ to SAMR for teachers. It is only at the highest levels (modification and redefinition), that we see significant gains in student learning. According to Puentadura, at the lowest levels of the ladder (substitution and augmentation), little increased learning occurs. ![]() In an earlier post, I discussed the SAMR ladder – Ruben Puentedura’s suggestion for evaluating the learning value of various technologies. By engaging our students in a more authentic process and by utilizing the distinct and various affordances of mobile technologies, we are helping to redefine learning opportunities. Ask any multi-media developer, film-maker or videographer and they will likely report the use a suite of applications to get the job done. The use of several apps, rather than relying on a single app to ‘do everything’, more closely mirrors real world applications. I’ve recently been exploring the world of App Smashing as a way to create digital stories with students. ![]()
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