Digital Storytelling #2: What is Creative Commons Licensing all about?
Submitted by Fiona Beal
How much do you know about the ins and outs of posting something you have created on the Internet? Can anyone use it and share it? Can you use and share anything someone else has posted?
Introducing Copyright on the web
The African Storybook team felt that it was important to learn about free licensing on the web right at the beginning of this course. Licensing tells others what they can and can’t do with anything you put on the web. Basically, when you put something on...Read more
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Please sign up for the ‘Digital Storytelling and the African Storybook Project’ free online course starting 21 July 2014
SchoolNet and Saide are running a short, free online digital storytelling course for teachers, educators and other potential writers as a story acquisition strategy for the amazing newly-launched African Storybook website (http://africanstorybook.org/).
About the course
The course is open to educators and others ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
A very popular global outlook today is that instead of keeping your students’ writing confined to exercise books in the classroom it’s a good idea to let them use free web based tools to make the most beautiful online creations. This keeps students engaged and give them a sense of achievement as they can easily share their work with their families and friends. Studies have shown that publishing student work beyond the classroom encourages authentically engaged students who...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I have known about the storytelling tool Zooburst (http://zooburst.com/) for some time, but this week it was brought to my attention again by Warren Sparrow from Rondebosch Preparatory School who sent me an example he had created. Zooburst is available as a webtool, an Ipad app and it seems that Android. is working on developing an app as well.
What is Zooburst?
Zooburst is a fun, free, 3D pop-up book website that would be easy for a young student to use and ...
