Use the information contained on this page to assist with planning, compiling and producing a digital story. Here you will find tools, links to free images and music and links to resources and tips on how to storyboard.
Adobe Spark
"Adobe Spark defines itself as “a bit of art, a smidge of science,” and that is just what it delivers. With a gigantic collection of professional fonts, thousands of photos, layouts and icons, this powerful tool helps you and your students create beautiful social media graphics, videos, and web stories that can be shared anywhere on the web. The inspiration gallery is a wonderful place to browse for ideas, but to also help students consider message design in engaging media literacy lessons. Appropriate for grades 3-12."
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Biteable
"Biteable is a three-step animated video maker that lets the user choose from animation styles, upload pictures, select and change font, colours and text, in an incredibly easy process. Final videos can be emailed and shared at the click of a button. With new video templates added frequently, Biteable makes for a great addition to your digital storytelling toolbox. Appropriate for grades K-12."
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Office Sway
"Office Sway is a great tool for creating interactive reports, newsletters, presentations, and personal stories. All the user needs to do is upload content and then select a design. Sway does the rest! Easily add video, music, pictures and more to enrich the interactive component and take advantage of Sway’s suggested search result features (pulls in tweets, images, and other relevant content). Formatting is automatically taken care of and templates can be swapped with ease. Creations are easily shared online and privacy settings help you determine the breadth of your audience. A good website for use with grades 5-12."
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Storyboarding
"A storyboard is a written or graphical representation of the all of the elements that will be included in a digital story. The storyboard is usually created before actual work on creating the digital story begins and a written description and graphical depiction of the elements of the story, such as images, text, narration, music, transitions, etc. are added to the storyboard. The elements of the story are arranged in the storyboard in the chronological order in which they will appear in the story and this allows the developer to organize and re-arrange the content for maximum effect."
This link will supply you with valuable advice and links to resources to help you plan your digital story.
Free Images
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Free Music
Ethical use of information also extends to music. All of the links supplied on this page will allow you to download free MP3 files. Some will also allow you to search for themed music, eg tense, upbeat etc.
