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Digital storytelling tools in the YL classroom - Part I (cont.)
Storyjumper - Story Jumper 2 is a site for creating I hope you have enjoyed this article so far and are
storybooks. We can create them from “scratch” or already thinking of trying these tools out! On the
use one of several templates they have. They offer next APPInep e-Newsletter issue, I will bring you
many easy “props” to integrate into the stories, and some more!
we can upload our own photos, type our own text
and even record our own voice or our students’
voices with the narration of the story. The online
version of each book is free, and we can even pay
for printing and hard copies. We can email the link
of the book, share it on social networks and post it
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1- http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu
2- https://www.storyjumper.com
3- https://www.carnegielibrary.org/storymaker/
on a blog or website. A wonderful feature is that
we can invite people to help us create our books,
which means we can invite our students and build
a collaborative book or even our fellow teachers in
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case we are working on a school project, for
instance. All of our work can be kept private in our
account or made public if we want to share it with
the world. The website also has many already
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My StoryMaker - My StoryMaker 3 is a free
online tool created by the Carnegie Library that
allows us to work with cartoon characters to
create a storybook. We can choose from a list of
predefined characters, take them on adventures
and create our very own story along the way. The
website can create sentences for us or we can
enter our own content. Once we are done with
our story, we can save it as a PDF, print it out or
share it with friends and family. There is no
need to register in the website but when we
finish our story, we get a code, which will
allow us access to our work in case we want to
edit it again.
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