Digital Storytelling for Beginners

Recently, I've been working with PreK-2 teachers who are new to ed tech. I've been trying to find tools that are easy for both the teachers and their (often pre-literate) students to use.

So far, my favorites are Little Bird Tales and UJAM, but I'm also a fan of Voicethread and Blabberize.

I wrote a blog post about these four tools, called Digital Storytelling for Beginners, if you're interested.

Are there any other easy-to-use tools that offer BIG rewards in the PreK-2 classroom?

Tags: PreK-2, digital, elementary, lower, storytelling

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Jay Wolfenbarger on March 5, 2013 at 2:54pm

I really enjoyed reading this article. Even though I am wanting to teach older kids I feel like I could still use a few of these technologies quite effectively without making my students feel babyish or boring them. I really like the potential that is there with Voicethread. I feel like I could easily use VT for homework assignments or for collaboration. I also really liked Blabberize, even though it is intended for a younger age group I still feel like this would be a fun way to share information and would catch student's attention. I feel like these tools would also be excellent ways to expose my students to different types of technologies and to hopefully prepare them just a little bit better for whatever their future may hold.

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Permalink Reply by Katy Scott on March 6, 2013 at 12:36pm

I'm so glad you guys are finding the blog post helpful -- I've also started using iPads in classrooms, and I love the Little Bird Tales app, as well as iMovie. I also REALLY like Toontastic, especially for younger students. Any other cool suggestions?

@Andrew Hay Wolfenbarger: I've used Little Bird Tales with high school students, and they still really enjoy it. I've started to refer to is as a "digital picture book creator."