DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Hello, my followers,😉😉😉 My new post is about digital storytelling. 

Me and my classmates were assigned to create a digital storytelling project in two weeks. Actually, there were three tasks and we had to choose one of them and worked in pairs. Me and my friend Sibel decided to create a fictional story, we had to decide the right tool(My friend's name is Sibel Aksoy and you can visit her blog if you click here). What do I mean with the right tool? There is a lot of websites about creating a digital story on the internet so I searched a useful website for my project.

Deciding the right tool was the most challenging part of this project. I want to give some examples of different tools. For example;

• If you click here, you visit www.zimmertwins.com/splash. This website is a good tool, but you can't record your voice, only you can add speech bubbles. 
• The other website is www.storyjumper.com, you can only create your own story with narration. You can't create a video on this website (Click here to visit story jumper). 
• The other website is www.vylond.com. It is my favourite website because it allows you to create different scenes with high quality and it is easy to use but unfortunately it is only 14 days free. After 14 days, you can't reach the project even though you create it (Click here to visit Vylond). 

Finally, we decided to use Toonstastic 3D as a tool. You can visit it by clicking here. It a fascinating tool and you can create your own story with high quality. Also, it allows you to choose different scenes, characters and music. I highly recommend you to utilize it for your digital story, but it is not a website. In fact, it is an application so you should download it before starting to use.

Creating a story was also one of the hardest parts of the project but the narration was full of fun.We spoke in higher pitch and intonation to give emotions of scenes. Moreover, we added different kinds of music to every scene. In the end, we were satisfied with our digital story.

Briefly, I'm eager to use digital storytelling with my students. I may assign them a project or share my digital stories with them. I believe that digital storytelling will increase collaboration and creativity of students.

If you click here, you can watch our digital story. I hope you enjoy.

                                                                           (We shared our story on youTube)

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