Podcasting

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by looking at the directions on this website.

Assignment:
    1) Create a digital story.
            You can create either an audio podcast or a video podcast.  We can use Box.net to publish an audio podcast
            and YouTube to publish a video podcast.  Be sure to embed this project into your Weebly site. 

    2) Create a Animoto video.
        We will be using Animoto Education that allows teachers and students to create unlimited videos.  I will share with you how to do this as we get closer to this assignment.  Go to Animoto and use the promotion code:
        a4egama0ad04e
as you create your account.  This will allow you unlimited videos!

    3) Create a Blabberize story.   Embed the story into your Weebly site.