Digital Story Telling

First I began with the Domo Animate site, but that seemed a little too tricky for me.  So I tried SimpleBooklet and this is what I came up with.

Booklet

While I know that this is not a story, it was one of the first PDFs I had available.  I realized that students could easily make a Power Point story and then convert it to a PDF and be able to do the same thing.  I have several students this year who have taken to Power Point to do their writing.

The other site that I used was Story Birds.  Some of the art on this site is quite strange.  But it would make for a great creative writing lesson.  Students would be excited to try to write to different pieces of art.  I know that in my own fifth grade class, this is something that they really like to do.

The final one that I went to was Pic Lits.  This site, children can use a picture, but have a set of words to pick from.

Pic Lit Poem


I think between the three of these sites, I would probably use SimpleBooklet for Elementary.  Work could easily be created in Power Point and then converted for the site.  Many students enjoy the use of clip art in Power Point and the different elements of design that can make a Power Point their very own creation.