3 Ways To Tell A Story

This week my goal is to tell a digital story three different ways.

The first tool I used for telling this story is called Animoto (www.animoto.com). Here's the video:
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It's cool, but very limited. Basically, it asks you to upload photos and music, and then creates a video for you. It's fast, fun, and free, but unfortunately very limited. It leaves little room for customization, and is therefore hard to use to actually "tell a story"

The next tool I used was Scrapblog (www.scrapblog.com). The embedded story is below, but I recommend clicking here for a bigger version so you can actually read the text.


Scrapblog allowed for a lot more creativity. I actually was able to tell my story this way by putting text on each page. The only thing I would have like to able to add is a soundtrack but this is a minor complaint.

The third storytelling tool is Voice Thread (www.voicethread.com)
Here's what I created with it: (for a bigger version Click here)

Voicethread is innovative not in the way it lets you tell you story, but in the way that it lets people comment on your story. Imagine watching a movie and being able to tell what the 50 other people in the theater thought of each scene. That's kind of what Voicethread lets you do. As you watch the slideshow you can comment on individual photographs by calling from a phone, typing text, drawing things, uploading your voice, or recording video of yourself. It has the potential to be a great interactive educational tool.

I would like to give a major shout out to Callie for continually putting up with my crazy ideas, being the photographer, and providing artistic support. Thanks again, Callie!