Digital storytelling #6 – 20 Ideas for illustrating stories
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Here are some suggestions for illustrating stories that you have written or that your class has written.
1. Hand drawn pictures
Hand drawn with kokis or pencil crayons and scanned into the computer.
Example: A noise in the night
2. Use cutouts
Create a background in some way. Then cut out figures and objects and place them on the background. Take a photo. Then for the next page move them around again and take another photo.
Example: Emily and the Seagull
3. Take photos
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
If we want to use already created clipart images to create a story we will need to be looking mainly for royalty free images. Here is a collection of resources to peruse.
Larry Ferlazzo is a great curator of the web – he has a whole list of ‘Best of series…” sites which you can find here. So here are Larry Ferlazzo’s picks for The Best Online Sources For Images (not in order of preference). I think it is best to go for royaltry free/public domain pics.
Here’s ...
If you are a Grade 10 – 12 Maths teacher here are some important questions we’d like to ask you.
Do your students need more help than what you are able to provide for them at school?
Do you wish you knew of some free after hours Maths tuition for your students?
Would you like your students to enjoy 24/7 free access to maths tuition via their phones out of school hours?
The Nokia MoMaths project is a great example of using mobile technologies to support learning of Grade 10 – 12 mathematics in S...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
What a wonderful experience we had at the Inspired Teachers Conference in Cape Town on Wednesday August 6th. This is the first time that Dunne and Debby Edelstein have brought the conference to Cape Town, and we’re sure it won’t be the last. The venue at the Cape Town Science Centre was cosy, full and buzzing with excitement. The audience was very responsive and engaged, with questions and answers flying back and forth across the room almost as fast as the tweets. Debby summ...
Maths students in Grades 10 – 12 have a number of free opportunities these days outside of school to improve their Maths skills. One of these opportunities, which has actually changed the educational ;landscape for Maths in South Africa, is the Nokia MoMaths project. This project has taken cognisance of the fact that most students have cell phones and can access free Maths help in that way. Digital initiatives like this are set to close the digital divide in South Africa.
So what is the MoMaths p...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
This post could be a useful one with ideas for you to use with your students to to help them find inspiration for writing! It is a collection of story starter sites on the Internet that could help to get those creative juices flowing. They are also useful for getting the reluctant writer going. Nowadays with all the wonderful free applications available on the web a teacher doesn’t have to stress about this any more. There’s an abundance of ideas ‘out there&#...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
The term ‘Digital Storytelling’ has different meanings in different contexts I have discovered. Sometimes writing a story using a lovely online story editor such as Storybird is referred to as digital storytelling – and it probably is. Sometimes writing a story offline using PowerPoint or Keynote, and illustrating it, is referred to as digital storytelling – and it probably is. So the most simple definition of digital storytelling, that embraces both the a...
What is Google+
This is Google’s social media platform. When you open a Gmail account you have to create a Google account first, and suddenly you discover that you have so much ore than just a Google account. You’ll see that you have a Google+ part to your account and all you need to do is activate it and fill in your profile. It takes your Gmail account to the next level
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What can you so on Google+
Create a post that consists of text, images links, and videos.
You can even create a...
Here is a letter from Google to South African teachers…
“Dear Teacher
Would you like your student’s artwork to be viewed by millions of South Africans on the homepage of www.Google.co.za? Would you like your school to benefit from a R100 000 technology grant? Then we would like to invite your school to take part in the Doodle 4 Google ‘South Africa of My Dreams’ competition, which offers school children across South Africa the chance to design a Doodle to appear on Google.
At Google...
