Create a story to introduce yourself; consider using your own photos, drawings,
or photos gathered from the Internet to represent ideas
Learn
Videolicious
How it worksguide (from Videolicious website)
1Choose your shots
2Tell your story
3Select your music
4Enjoy your video
The free version of Videolicious is limited to 1 minute and 10 images. You are allowed to add a video clip to the beginning and ending of your project. This video clip can be recorded live or added from your camera roll. You may add music which places under your project with Videolicious providing sample music clips.
•Videolicious Tutorial onYouTube (3:51)
Shadow Puppet EDU
Shadow Puppet Overview(from TechCrunch)
1Pick a set of photos from any album on your device.
2Drag-and-drop to reorder them, and crop them so they look right.
3Record your audio voice-over providing the story behind the photos.
4Tap and zoom to highlight points of interest as you go through pics.
5Text, email, tweet, or Facebook your Shadow Puppet narrated slide show’s permalink.
6Friends and followers can watch your Shadow Puppet even if they don't have the app.
The EDU version of Shadow Puppet features CCSS aligned-lessons, safe digital media galleries and other classroom-friendly details!
•Shadow Puppet EDU- with overview, classroom stories and lesson ideas
•Shadow Puppet tutorial(4:18)
Activity
Outcome: Create an image based story withnarrationand save it to YouTube or your Camera Roll.
1Select either Videolicious or Shadow Puppet EDU for this project.
2Two common approaches for creating an image based story:
3•Write the story, and then find the images.
4•Find the images, and then write the story. Many teachers find it’s easier to first collect the images, put them in order, and then write the story.
5Collect or create the images you want to use to tell your story. Go to the Resources-Finding Images page in this site to get ideas as to sites where you can find images. You can also create your own images using an iPad drawing app such as DoodleBuddy or SketchBook Express, or take photos of drawings or images which represent your story.Once you have your collection of images, use the app to create your story (note – some apps allow you to search for images from within the app.)
6Write a script that tells your story or narration. You can use pencil and paper, the built-in Notes app, or other digital notebook app such as PaperDesk app.
7Take a screenshot or photo of your story or script to include in your artifacts (you could also upload the story or script to Dropbox or Google Drive and link to a .pdf copy in your blog post.)
8Optional:
9Develop a story map or storyboard that depicts a sequence of images that readers will see. Be certain that each image or scene of the storyboard matches a part of the story/script. Story maps can be created with paper and pencil and can be supported with a storyboard template. App such as Popplet lite can also be used. If you create a story map or storyboard, be sure to take a screenshot or photo of your story map or storyboard to include in your blog post.
10Practice reading the story or script before recording and then create your story. Add a title and narration. If available, select appropriate music. Review and revise as needed.
11Publish your story - share to your camera roll if the app supports it, or upload to YouTube.
Artifact
1Upload a screenshot or copy of your story or script to your digital portfolio.
2Share completed movie by embedding or linking in your digital portfolio.Your imagebased digital story should have a minimum of 5 images.Be sure to test link to make sure it works and that the privacy settings allow others to view it.
Reflect on an idea for a teacher-created projectand for a student-created project with image based story apps. How do you see image baseddigital story projects fitting in compared toanimated digital story projects?