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Digital Storytelling with 6 year old Kids: Little Elephant and Doctor Monkey


Little Elephant from ozge karaoglu on Vimeo.

This is the “Little Elephant” digital story that was created by my 6 year old students last year. The story is one of the stories of Mini Magic 1 book by Macmillian which my students love listening, retelling and role-playing. There are six stories on the book and they are repetitive stories which make learners retell them easily and in a very short time.

We had created other animated stories in our school, but they were difficult to carry and we needed so many people to involve in the production and it took us a lot of time to finalize the projects. You can watch those animation films on “Daisy and Drago” – “Daisy,Drago and the Magic Wand“. (The first one came in 2nd place in International Children Film Festival and was shown in cinemas during the film festival both in Turkey and abroad.)

We finalized “Little Elephant and Doctor Monkey” project in a week, because we used the very basic things that you need when you want to film something. Children drew the animal puppets,they drew the background.We recorded their voices and they played with puppets while they were making them talk and we filmed them with a camera. We didn’t rehearse it before and filming the story took us only one hour.

So your students can create their own digital stories this way and  their level of English doesn’t matter at all. They can be younger or older, I’m sure our digital native students all have their own stories that they want to tell in their own way of living and learning, it’s the 21st century way…

More Tools for Digital Storytellers

headphones“In the end,folks, we ain’t nothing but a song.. a story” Joe Lambert

Here are some more tools to create your web based digital stories.

You can create animated cards or video greetings using CardFunk. You add your photo to the cards and send it to others with your message on it.

Tikatok is an online platform to write, illustrate and publish online stories. You can start writing your book with StorySparks that are like writing prompts. The beginning of the story is automatically added to your story’s beginning. You can also print your book.

If you are looking for a similar site to Glogster, you should visit Magnoto. You can add your photos, videos, audios in a magnetic style to the web. You can also send your content as an email. It’s like sticking different media on a refrigerator door.

Storyjumper is a site that gives you different tools to write and illustrate stories. You choose the type of the story you want to make ,then you ‘ll see the story creator tool on your way. You can start from scratch or you can get a beginning to create your story. You can read some of the books here.

You can create your personalized stories using StorySomething. The stories are already written, you choose your own adventure and change the name of the characters of the story and publish it.

FineTuna lets you add comments to any image and share it with others.BubbleSnaps and WigFlip are similar tools to add text to images.

You can have your virtual monster pet with MoshiMonsters. You can adapt your own pet monster, chat with friends and play games.

PhotoPeach is a rich slide show with zooming comments, sound effects and music. You can also create quizzes after you finish your slide show.

MadeupMemories lets you customize videos by putting your personal pictures. You can choose to be a princess, a toy, a superhero! Just choose your video, upload your picture and publish it. You can also download it to your computer and keep it on your desktop forever!

Sketchfu allows you to draw your own pictures and share it with others.

Enjoy and stay tunned!

If you want to explore more digital storytelling tools, you can read my other posts on digital storytelling:

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