Digital Story Telling by Heather Tesiero

 

Digital storytelling is fun and engaging. There are many programs that offer free versions of their storytelling software on-line. A popular tool is StoryboardThat. https://www.storyboardthat.com it is easy to drag and drop items into your story board. After dropping a few items into the storyboard users are asked to set up a free account. This would be a fun tool to use for a library program on story writing for children. They would enjoy the ease of use and the cute characters available. Digital storytelling can help children remember activities.  (Pagano et al., 2024)

Animoto is a tool that will also help create digital stories.https://animoto.com/business/education Animoto is also a drag and drop to create storis. Animoto helps you integrate videos into the story. The program is targeted to promote schools and programs. This would be a fun tool to use for school library announcements. Videos are very engaging. 

Make Beliefs Comix by Bill ZImmerman https://makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ is a interactive comic building program. Similar to StoryboardThat there are various backgrounds and characters to choose from to build your comic. Comics can be a maximum of 18 panels. The tool is a little trickier to navigate but it has a wide variety of images to use in designs. Graphic novel fans would love using this tool to create their very own Graphic Novel. I created these two images quickly with Comix:

References:

Kharbach, M., PhD. (2024, May 4). Digital storytelling tools for teachers. Educators Technology. https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2023/05/some-of-the-best-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers.html

Pagano, L. C., George, R. E., Uttal, D. H., & Haden, C. A. (2024). “You gotta tell the camera”: Advancing children's engineering learning opportunities through tinkering and digital storytelling. Child Development, n/a10.1111/cdev.14094