iPad/iPhone Camera: Taking pictures on your iPhone/iPad is a very simple way to engage students and adults into telling stories. Connections are always made to visuals and you are just a click away from letting that happen. Here's a few of my pictures that I've used to stir up personal tales from my students. Feel free to use these pictures or take your own.
Letter "I" artifact for today is iPad and iPhone use for digital storytelling. Wait! Don't leave just because you don't have either device. Many of these apps or similar apps can be found on your Androids. Digital storytelling is a creative, engaging way to develop your stories, write them down, and tell your tales. The apps are perfect for all ages. I've included some screen shots of the apps I enjoy using on my iPad. There's a brief description of my favorite apps below the screen shots. Some of these apps are free and others cost less than $5.00. My storytelling club enjoys using these to practice the various stages of their stories. Please click on the pictures below to enlarge. We used the app "Tellagami" below to practice various parts of our stories. In this case, the beginning of the story was examined. The picture we used for the background was cited on the picture itself - just a bit too small. I love the avatar - you can create an avatar that looks like you, the narrator, or the character in the story. This is one of my favorite storytelling apps! Voice Record App - I included this app to remind everyone how important it is to hear yourself tell your story. My students are hilarious the first time they hear themselves on this app. They immediately realize that they are either talking too fast, using the same transition words (then or so) over and over again, or leaving gaps in their story. It's a powerful tool to use. This app is free. I like it because it doesn't have a time limit. iPad/iPhone Camera: Taking pictures on your iPhone/iPad is a very simple way to engage students and adults into telling stories. Connections are always made to visuals and you are just a click away from letting that happen. Here's a few of my pictures that I've used to stir up personal tales from my students. Feel free to use these pictures or take your own. To end, I'd like to refer you to an earlier post I created on great sites you can visit to learn more about some of these apps: http://www.door2lore.com/3/post/2013/09/preparing-for-my-storytelling-workshop.html
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I enjoy telling stories to students in the elementary school grades. Every once in a while, it's fun to pull out gadgets and gizmos that work well with some of your tales. I thought it would be fun to show you some of these items that I use and some items I wished I owned. Hopefully you'll share your artifacts that are used in stories you tell. Here's just a handful of gadgets and gizmos artifacts I have laying around my house that I've used throughout my storytelling career. 1. plastic funnel: I have fun telling a well known folktale but I make sure I just tell the barebones and nothing more. If you were teaching the writing craft of adding details, you could read the bare bones to your students. The kids aren't at all satisfied with the story and will fill in the needed details to add depth to the tail. This is when I pull out the funnel as a visual for "vague" versus "detailed." The top of the funnel represents the big idea (vague story) and as you add the details you get a refined, polished tale with images, actions, characters and their traits, along with a grabber lead, exciting plot, and an ending no one will forget. 2. fan - please see my "F" blog about fans 3. flute, wood block, spoons, ocarina - I love teaching the listeners how to use these in various stories, have them practice with the instruments, and then participate by guiding them at the right times in the telling. My inspiration is Heather Forest and her wonderful musical tales. Check out her website! 4. Yarn ball - I love this artifact when teaching tales in a small group. I begin a story holding the piece of yarn with the students sitting in a small circle. As I begin telling I gently and slowly unwind the yarn ball. As I near the end of one color, I stop telling and pass the yarn ball to another child in the circle. This next child has to continue where I left off, gently and slowly unwrapping the yarn until another color appears. This child then passes the ball of yarn to another teller who was listening quite intently to the other tellers. This continues until the story has a beginning, middle, and end. What's cool, is by the end, there's a web of yarn which I always tell the kids is our teamwork of connections made to create a story together. Finally, what I am really excited about, are these digital gadgets for your iphone to use while storytelling. I kid you not, I have had so much fun learning how to use these relatively easy instruments on your iphone. Try those bagpipes out for a scottish tale, the uke for a tropical tale, and ocarina for almost any tale you wish. I've included a youtube of the Ocarina. The best part about these instruments is they are cheap, cheap, cheap! I'd love to hear what "artifacts" you use to enrich some of your stories - a autoharp, shakers, washboard? Do tell!
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