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Draw and Tell – Create Animated Stories

December 16, 2016 by admin

Draw and Tell is a free iPad app that elementary school students can use to create simple animated stories. At its most basic level Draw and Tell provides blank canvases on which students can draw pictures and or write notes. The app provides students with a variety of canvases including a blank screen, lined screens, graph paper, and colorful background borders. Students can draw on these canvases by using virtual pencils, pens, crayons, and paints. Students can also apply digital stickers and stencils to their creations in Draw and Tell. If making drawings is all your students need to do, then they can save their drawings in the app and on their iPads’ camera rolls.

Draw and Tell is more than just a drawing tool. The app includes options for students to record themselves talking about the things they are drawing. Those recordings are saved with their drawings as simple video files. All of the files are saved in the app. Students can combine their video files to make longer animations. Or, as Tom Daccord pointed out in this post, students can use the video files in other apps like iMovie.

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Filed Under: Elementary School Tagged With: Digital Stories, digital storytelling, draw and tell, free apps, free ipad apps

Storehouse Is a Good App for Creating Personal Year-in-Review Stories

December 22, 2014 by admin

storehouse 3 This is the time of year that many of us take a look back at the year. I did that this afternoon by creating a Storehouse story about my year. Storehouse is a free iPad app for telling stories through images, videos, and text. Each story has a vertical layout reminiscent of a wide screen blog post. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instgram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story. Completed Storehouse stories can be shared via email, Facebook, and Twitter. Stories published through Storehouse are given their own URLs for online viewing. You can see my story here.

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As your students create their stories encourage them to think about the sequencing their media to support the narratives of their stories.

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Filed Under: High School, Middle School Tagged With: Digital Stories, digital storytelling, free ipad apps, ipad apps, language arts

Storehouse – A Free iPad App for Visual Storytelling

January 22, 2014 by admin

storehouse Storehouse is a new iPad app for visual storytelling with your pictures and video clips. The basic idea behind Storehouse is to create stories by combining images, text, and video clips on a blank canvas. To create your stories you can import pictures and video from your iPad’s camera roll, from Instgram, from Dropbox, and from Flickr. You can arrange the sequence of the media by dragging and dropping it into place. You can add text above and below each picture or video clip in your story. Completed Storehouse stories can be shared via email, Facebook, and Twitter. Stories published through Storehouse are given their own URLs for online viewing. You can see my sample story here.

Storehouse could be a good app for students to use to develop visual stories about themselves, about field trips,  or  about school events like winter carnival day or other celebrations. As your students create their stories encourage them to think about the sequencing their media to support the narratives of their stories.

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Storehouse is a free iPad app. iOS 7 is required in order to use Storehouse.

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Filed Under: High School, Middle School Tagged With: Digital Stories, digital storytelling, free ipad apps, language arts

Draw Your Stories – An iPad App for Little Kids

July 10, 2013 by admin

drawstories Draw Your Stories is a freemium iPad app on which children complete narrated stories by creating their own drawings. The narrated stories contain prompts for students to draw things to fill-in the scenes. Draw Your Stories gives students small templates to trace to help them draw various objects into the stories they’re listening to. Students can choose from a wide array of colors and brush stroke sizes.

Draw Your Stories provides one narrated story for free. Students can create as many drawings as they like in that story. Additional narrated stories can be purchased for $0.99.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, Pre-K Tagged With: Art, creative storytelling, Digital Stories, drawing, Drawing Apps, free ipad app, free ipad apps, ipad apps

Doodlecast for Kids Offers an Easy Way to Create Video Stories

January 9, 2013 by admin

Screen Shot 2013-01-08 at 3.17.47 PMDoodlecast for Kids is an iPad app that allows students to create short whiteboard videos. Students can create short videos by drawing on a blank whiteboard. Students can record their voices as they draw on the whiteboard. Students who are struggling to start their stories can use one of the twenty-three story prompts offered by Doodlecast for Kids. A student’s video can be up to three minutes long. Videos can be saved to a student’s iPad’s camera roll and or uploaded to YouTube.

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To create a video on Doodlecast for Kids start by selecting either the blank whiteboard or one of the twenty-three story prompts. After choosing a prompt or blank template tap the “record” button in the bottom-left corner of the screen. The button will turn red when recording is activated. Recording can be paused and resumed at any time. The drawing tools allow students to change ink colors, pen stroke size, and erase anything that they want to remove from their drawings.

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Doodlecast for Kids costs $2.99 USD. Watch a video demonstration of the app below.

Thanks to Jen Deyenberg for the app recommendation.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, Pre-K Tagged With: Creative Writing, Digital Stories, digital storytelling, language arts, video creation

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