Research Guides: Technology for Teachers: Digital Storytelling, Blogs, & Social Media

Digital Storytelling

Biteable
Biteable is a animated video maker that lets the user choose various animation styles, upload pictures, select and change font, and add colors and text.
Book Creator
An easy to use online book creation tool.
Storybird
Storybird helps students create short, visual stories that can be saved and shared online.
Storyboard That
Storyboarding tool that offers templates for students to create their own stories.
Meograph
Meograph, a multimedia storytelling tool, allows users to pull video and photos from the web, from social media, cloud-based storage, the computer's hard drive or webcam. Easily add narration and music then embed or share.
Metta
Metta is a tool that allows users create video presentations out of online videos, pictures, text and sounds in minutes. Polls and quizzes can be embedded for more student participation and interaction.

Featured App

Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is a free simple app that helps you create animated videos, graphics, and web stories in minutes.

Social Media Tools

Pinterest
Pinterest is a curation tool that allows users to collect and organize images linked to websites of any kind.
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets," which are text messages limited to 140 characters.
Facebook
Facebook is an online social networking service that allows people to connect and share with each other.

Newsletters and more

Lucidpress
Lucidpress is a web-based drag and drop publishing app, enabling anyone to create newsletters, brochures, magazines, etc. Teachers can receive a free pro account.
Office Sway
Office Sway helps users to create interactive reports, newsletters, presentations, and more.

Student Portfolios

Seesaw
Digital portfolio tool for K-12 students to document their learning.

Interested in bringing Social Media into the Classroom?

This collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia aims to help teachers deploy social media tools in the classroom to engage students in 21st-century learning.

Blog and Wiki Creators

The following links all provide free cloud-based blogging and website space for registered users.

Podcasting Tools

Audacity
Audacity is a free downloadable software product that provides multi-track audio editing and recording.

Technology for Teachers: Digital Storytelling, Blogs, & Social Media

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