Tagged: digital storytelling

Digital Games by Digital Natives

It’s really demanding to work with very young learners, but it’s amazing when you think of how much they can pick up even they are so small!!

I’ve made three animation projects with 6 years old kids for the last two years. MEDEA Awards awardedDaisy and Drago cartoon that was animated and dubbed by 6 year old non-native students with “Creativity and Innovation” award in Online-Educa conference last year. I had written a guest blog on Ken Wilson’s blog about this project. If you are interested more, you can also watch my interview about it and watch the film here. The kids also animated the second story of Daisy and Drago. You can watch it here.

This year, we’ve been working on a new animation story with new and very cute characters “Bubble and Pebble”. The aim is to teach colours to the kids. The recordings haven’t been completed yet so I’ll share it later on a different blog post. By the way, you can have a look at the short summary of the story below:

At school, we’ve collaborated with the IT department to create digital games for kindergarten students to reinforce what they learn in English lessons. This year, we’ve decided to create digital games using our new characters to teach different topics to the kids. For this project, children have drawn the pictures for the game. I’ve recorded their voices and IT teacher  has put the drawings and the recordings together using Flash. You can play the demo of one of the games below:

Children do love playing with Bubble and Pebble games!! and it’s amazing to see how much they enjoy the material they have created to learn English. Let’s give them all a big hand!!


Color Your Digital Life with SlideShows

Slideshow OverlayCreating a slideshow is a great way to color your digital life. As mother’s day is fast approaching, you can create a unique slideshow to show your love to your mom or create something that will cherish others and wow-worthy!

SlideRoll is a way to create slideshows from your own pictures using different transitions. You can also create slideshows in a documentary style. SlideRoll Video Creator helps you to turn your slideshows into true video to display it on your blog or your website.

Slide lets you create slideshows from your photos with different effects and transitions in an easy way. You can also create a guest book for your blog, personalize your pictures with different effects, frame YouTube videos with different skins. ImageLoop is a similar site. It also allows you to create an online version of any pdf and powerpoint presentation. You can also use both these sites as a free upload of your images.

Roxio lets you add pictures and videos together and customize it to tell your story in an engaging way.
With Kizoa, you can create slideshows with music and effects, embed them to your blog or your websites, edit your pictures, store and organize your photos and share them with the world.

PhotoPeach is a quick way to create slideshows using pictures and music. It also lets you create quizzes on your slideshow.
You can turn your photos into digital creations to share them with other people with SmileBox. You can create scrapbooks, ecards, slideshows and photo albums using different designs and music.

RockYou allows you to create slideshows selecting from the various choices such as transitions, themes, music, backgrounds, and caption options.

If you have a Flickr account, you can also try FlickrSlideshow to create a custom Flickr slideshow on your website.You can also try SlideFlickr and FlickrSlidr.
OneTrueMedia lets you mix your photos and pictures together with effects, captions and music to create your unique slideshows.

With Vuvox, you can mix and blend your personal media into rich personal expressions.

Empressr lets you create your slideshows with photos, music, videos and audios to share it privately or publicly.

WebSlides is a site to create a slideshow of  your bookmarks and feeds.JogTheWeb is a similar way to create a slideshow of websites.
Animoto and Flixtime are exceptional in this category. They let you turn your photos and images into amazing videos with easy to follow effects.

Prezi is also one of the most unique way to create a picture show and a presentation. If you like it, you should also check Ahead which is a similar tool.

Enjoy exploring those sites and stay online!!