Digital Compositions Resourses and Reading List

 

  Research suggests that a digital reading and writing environment can positively influence literacy. Multimedia Composing presents a means of self-expression and provides support for development of reading and writing skills. Dynamic multimedia presentations allow students to feel their work could have a greater voice, which in turn encourages them to put more effort into it…
   

 

Close Friends and their Digital Storytelling Experiences
  Literacy, ELL, and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Learning in Action
:January 2009 A short video documents a semester-long digital writing project led by two Bay Area Writing Project teacher-consultants. It features my friend Clifford Lee.
  Digital Storytelling Brings New Dimensions to Reading, Writing, and More: Can digital storytelling improve reading comprehension, writing skills, and media literacy? (Some of you might have read this last week.) It features my friend
 

Teaching the New Writing: A new book.

A Podcast about this work.
   

 

Digital Storytelling
 

You Tube Tutorials

Workshops

How To:

 

 

Technology--Significant Applications and Software
  Google.docs Create and share your work online (Free)
Create, edit and upload quickly
Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Access and edit from anywhere. All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online.
  Google.sites Create and share webpages easily. This is a nice site that makes creating and sharing websites easy. You can create a website for a group that is not tied to the work of one webmaster. Consequently, you can create a site to help establish a connection for your personal learning communities. You can share documents and files together.
  Google Sketch Up MICDS
  Slidecasting: Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine. It's really easy to create one, so get started now!
  Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor--a great resource for creating narration and other soundscapes for your digital compositions.
  Creating a Podcast on Audacity
  SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free. For example, you create a PowerPoint for your presentation at a conference, then you use Slide Share to share this with conference participants to view later.
  Flickr: Share photos and create an opportunity for others to share photos and memories. Then you can collect some of the pictures and incorporate the images into a digital composition.
  Wetpaint: Create Your Own Free Wiki
  Wiki Spaces Create Your Own Free Wiki
  PBWiki Create your own free wikis for the classroom. Easy!
  Wiki introductory video
  VoiceThread: Online tool that facilitates multimedia storytelling.
  Copyright and the Web: This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net.
  Landmarks Citation Machine
  Gogofrog: takes you into the ultimate 3D world. No downloads just the internet in 3D. Create your own ulimited online space, it’s fast, easy and free. Do things you simply can’t in 2D … See and chat with your site visitors, furnish your environment and change your whole space or yourself to suit your mood, store photos, read a book or share one, write a journal, interact, listen to music…The potential for education is enormous. Students can create galleries instead of PowerPoint presentations.
Social Networking
  Changing Face(Book) of Education: A nice site that explores how social networking is changing education.
  Magnetic Poetry Online: Good place for students and teachers to play with poetry online with others.