I've used Alice (alice.org)to teach digital storytelling....Alice is
really a tool to teach programming, but it does so by putting
characters into a 3D world and giving them instructions to do things.
I taught digital storytelling using Alice to 5th graders in a summer
class and they did pretty well with it.
--Baker
Baker Franke
Computer Science Dept.
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
773.702.5419
On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Jennifer Voorhees wrote:
> I have used Pixie by Tech4Learning quite successfully.
> http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie You can narrate each slide, then
> combine them into a show much like Photostory, but with perhaps more
> control. My only complaint is with the Save process which requires you
> to save each slide, which is arduous. They keep promising a fix but it
> hasn't happened! Tech4Learning has also created an online subscription
> tool called Wixie. http://www.wixie.com/wixie With a subscription you
> can create your projects online.
>
> Jenni
>
> Jenni Swanson Voorhees
> Director, Lower School Technology
> Academic Technology Coordinator
> Sidwell Friends School
> 202-537-6994
>
>
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> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Brown, Jill
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:24 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: digital storytelling software?
>
> If you are on Win7, what are you using to create digital stories?
>
> Here is what we have found out since our upgrade.
> The new Movie Maker does not support narration and is difficult to
> work
> with regarding sound files in general. The 2.6 version which is
> recommended to work with Win7 will lose files in an project and has
> other problems that make it unstable.
>
> The newest version of Photostory does not work in Win 7. Some say it
> will, but we get errors and it won't start up. Digital Image 2006
> has a
> version of Photostory that supposedly works, but is it only a 90 day
> trial, then costs$ and it sounds like they will not support it much
> longer.
>
> We are piloting PhotoStage and think is probably our best solution
> right
> now. It is not free, but the cost is not too bad.
>
> We know about several online free websites, but we want software that
> is very versatile and don't want to students to need to create online
> accounts.
>
> Thanks,
> Jill
>
>
> Jill R. Brown, PhD
> Director, Educational Technology
> Albuquerque Academy
> brownj@aa.edu<mailto:brownj@aa.edu>
> (505) 858-8831
> 6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
> Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
> Fax (505) 828-3320
>
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