Digital StoryTelling App: StoryMaker 1

Hello everyone! I want to give information about a digital storytelling application that can be installed and used on a mobile device. It's name is StoryMaker 1. It's compatible with android and it is for free to use. As you can understand by its name, it's an application for creating  a story and sharing it. It is easy to use because the only thing you should do while using this app is following the steps. If it's a photo series, an audio story or a video package, StoryMaker walks you through what you need to know in order to be successful.This story templates offer suggested narrative arcs and potential questions to give you structure but leave you enough room to tell the story you want. Designed by a group of trainers with years of experience working in the field, StoryMaker is the tool you need to tell the stories you're passionate about, while staying safe. StoryMaker has access to a 55 lesson course in Journalism, Security, Photo, Audio, and Video production. So when you’re ready to dive deep and learn everything you can, we have the lessons to get you started. StoryMaker lets you rearrange and trim your clips to tweak them to perfection, it even makes it easy to record your own narration to go with your story. When your story is ready you can share it across all of your favorite platforms straight from StoryMaker. StoryMaker supports lots of languages. 3,8 stars out of 5.
There are some pictures of the application:

Symbol of the Application

                                               

This app is useful for everybody. It has a huge content and students can use it creatively. I can recommend you this app.
And here is a video about the application:

Digital Story Telling: Old Friends

Hello everybody. We prepared a video for our digital story telling project with Soner ÇEVİRGEN. 

It's a fiction about two old friends. We inspired from "League of Legends" video game. 

It was the first time that we used this method.

It was quite enjoyable. We had a good time while doing this.

Here is the video for you. We tried to blend our talent and creativity. I hope you enjoy as much as we did. 

ABCya

ABCya is a teacher-created free website for kids. It includes computer games and some activities for enjoyable learning on the web. All games and activities are free. The intended audience is elementary students.

The author was an Integrated Technology Teacher. Before starting his teaching career, his work days had been spent in isolation developing media for print and the web.

I want to share a text with you which was written by the author of the site.
"I am a former school teacher who started ABCya.com in 2004 because I could not find FREE and nonviolent children's activities on the web for my classroom. ABCya.com is intended to provide free fun and educational games kids to use under the guidance of their parents and teachers."

On the homepage of the site, there is a search box for writing the term what you are looking for. As i mentioned before, there are some computer games* and activities* for elementary students. All of them were created or approved by certified school teachers and modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. The homepage provides links to six main grade level categories: Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade. They includes: Letters, Numbers, More (shapes, social studies, art) and Holidays.

*Apple (iPhone,iPod,iPad apps), The New York Times, Disney Family Fun Magazine and Fox News have featured ABCya.com’s award-winning games and apps.

There are some pictures about ABCya.com.











There is a video about ABCya.com

In my opinion, every teacher or student should use this website, because; it allows to enjoy while learning. It is easy to use. It is created and approved by certified school teachers. This site was created for learning and teachers/learners need this.

www.abcya.com

                                               

A Wiki Project About a Book: Fatih-Harbiye

   This week we were supposed to prepare a wiki page about a book. I chose Fatih-Harbiye written by Peyami SAFA.

  This was my first experience about preparing a wiki and i liked it. I think it is so useful that the learners will gain self-esteem and it is more enjoyable with technology. There won't be any shy learners because all will try to explain themselves. Then, they will realize that they completely learned.

                        https://ourfavouritebooks.wikispaces.com/Fatih-Harbiye

A Weird Dream (Podcast)

Here is the our project for this week. It is about a weird dream as i mentioned in the headline. We tried to convert a horror story into a funny story. We enjoyed a lot when doing this. We had trouble while recording it. We dealt with some recording issues.. This project can help learners for being more enterprising and getting rid of shyness while talking.  I hope you enjoy while listening.
 
Online recording software >>

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