218 - Story Starters

Day 218. This collection of phrases was made using an app called PoetryMagnets, which is similar to other poetry generation apps I've used. I don't like this one as much though as it doesn't seem to offer any of those small joining words that help put other words into sentences, so all. Ended up with was these disjointed phrases. But it could be useful as a story starter, giving students a set of phrases like this and building a story around them.

164 - Find Your Voice

Day 164. This little clip was made using a new tool from Adobe called Adobe Voice. While it's a little limited in what it can do, it's super easy to use and makes telling stories very simple. Some of our students at school used it to produce some marvellous presentations this week, so it inspired me to make my own to figure out more about how it works.  Here's a cheesy little sample I made tonight.



While it clearly has educational uses, what I don't like abut it is that you can't save the finished video file to your iPad's camera roll, making it somewhat limited in usefulness since most students will not be able to share it via Twitter to Facebook. Instead it gets hosted on Adobe servers, and has to be embedded from there. Not really ideal for schools.

133 - Digital Unstorytelling

Day 133. They say that telling a good digital story starts with a storyboard. But maybe not every storyboard ends up telling a good digital story.

This silly little movie was made using a storyboarding tool on the iPad (I can't even remember what it was called... I drew these images a while ago) and I used iMovie to edit them together into this roughcut, add some Ken Burns effect and a soundtrack. Is it really a story about nothing? Or does your mind fill in the blanks and make it into a story? Leave a comment and tell me what you think.