Thing 4 - Digital Storytelling


My first issue was to try to determine the difference between storytelling and presentation software. I found in most cases you could use the programs to accomplish both. As usual I went a little overboard trying to find just the right one for the projects that I am working on. I now have a list of about a dozen that I liked the best. My two favorites are: Storyboard That! https://www.storyboardthat.com and ThingLink  https://www.thinglink.com . They are both pretty easy to use once you learn the basics, have lots of features and provide a very pleasing product.
I started with free accounts in both cases and then upgraded to premium to be able to add class projects and student work. As an aside to the above, I also have used Google slides and created a very impressive presentation through that and I believe it is a another good alternative to some of the storytelling programs that I looked at.


I also looked at a comic program: toondoo http://www.toondoo.com that I really liked and was pretty user friendly.


Besides these programs when I was looking at digital storytelling, I came across several timeline programs. I have used the Worldbook online timeline and it is pretty impressive. When I was exploring these programs there was a couple that I liked. One was called tiki toki
http://www.tiki-toki.com/ and the other was dipity www.dipity.com.


I have already used some of the above with my students. They picked up Storyboard That! with very little instruction and created some very interesting products.