Hi,
this year I participate in Electronic village online and I 've chosen 2 sessions(I 'll try to learn all materials).It's my second time in EVO and I like the activity and comunication with so many people!!

Here's my 3,2,1, Introduction.

3 things you should know about me: I am very sociable, creative and curious teacher)

2 of my favorite activities in the world : gardening and dreaming

1 dream job I would have if I wasn't a YL teacher : a restaurant owner

Some useful links to involve students in creative story telling

and higly motivate them.

Internet safety tools

http://rmeducationblog.com/stay-e-safe-with-an-avatar-10-tools-to-explore/

Comic Creation Tools

Creaza- Create comics, make movies, edit audio, and more! Embed in a blog or wiki.

Bubblr

- create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story!

Comicmaster - Cool graphic novel creator.

Stripgenerator - You don't have to register in order to create a comic.

Bitstrips - Not free, but offers a 30-day free trial and includes more educational support (e.g., activities) than most other comic generators

Make Beliefs Comix - Two, three and four panel comics that you can create in multiple languages.

Comic Strip Generator - You can upload photos or use web images in addition to their library of ready-to-use images

Garfield - you can create comic strips or (in Comics Lab Extreme) comic books

ToonDoo - the site allows students to share their comics, comment on other comics, and even save and edit a copy of a comic

Phrase It- Add speech bubbles to pictures.

Video Tools

Vimeo-Upload your videos here for free in high quality and to embed in a blog or wiki.

Dvolver - Create a video writing your text and choosing your characters and scene.

Mailvu - Record yourself and share it with others.

BombayTV - Write subtitles for Bollywood films.

Jing - A tool to screen capture your screen.

Domoanimate - Make your own animations

Kerpoof - Create videos or an animated picture.

TalkingPets - Make the pets talk

Googlesearch - Use Google searches to tell your story.

OneTrueMedia - Mix your photos and pictures with text and animations.

Blabberize - Make your pictures talk

Roxio - Turn your photos into a video.

Smilebox - Create videos from your pictures and videos adding design and music.

SlideRocket - Create slidehows.

Screenr - Record your screen activity with audio.

Glogster - Create and online poster with your videos.

Sketchcast - Record a sketch with or without your voice.

Fotobabble- Create videos with audio and your voice. Free mobile app for IOS.

Skqueak- Create videos with audio and your voice. Draw on your pictures. Free mobile app for IOS.

BiteSlide- digital slidebooks with images, videos, and text. Collaborate & edit.

Additional Resources for this week:

SafeshareTv - Share Youtube videos without ads and crop them.

Musicshake - Create copyright free music for your video.

Compfight - Search Flickr photos for your videos.

MorgueFile - Find free pictures for your videos.

Free Music Archive - Jamendo - RoyaltyFreeMusic - Find free music.

SoundBible - FreeSound - Find sound effects.

Collaborative Storytelling Tools

VoiceThread for Educators-Interactive way to present stories and have parents and other students comment on the stories. Several options. Embed in a blog or wiki.

Storybird-Students create beautiful stories by choosing beautiful art and adding the words. Embed in a blog or wiki.

Voxopop - Construct audio stories.

UTellStories- Tell stories with audio, image, video and words. Collaborate on topics.

BiteSlide- digital slidebooks with images, videos, and text. Collaborate & edit.

Prezi- Collaborate on a slide presentation that you can transform into a video. Cool graphics and interface. Embeddable. Free iPad app.

Other Recommended Digital StoryTelling Tools

Creaza- Create comics, make movies, edit audio, and more! Embed in a blog or wiki.

5cardflicker - Tell your stories through flicker photos.

Glogster - Poster your story.

Zooburst - 3D pop up story creator.

Scholastic story starter - Start your story randomly.

Thestorystarter - Start your story randomly.

Storybird -Beautiful art collection of creative common work that students choose from to create online story books.

Storyjumper - Create your own stories.

LittleBirdTales - Upload your picture, record your voice to tell your stories.

Bookr/ Pimpampum- Create a storybook with Flickr photos

Mixbook- Create online scrapbooks with photos, stickers, and more. Also can create an online book. Embeddable.

SnackTools- Various tools including banner makers, flipbook makers, slide presentations, polls, and more. Try their flipbook tool which works on mobile devices.

UTellStories- Tell stories with audio, image, video and words. Collaborate on topics.

BiteSlide- digital slidebooks with images, videos, and text. Collaborate & edit.

Digital Storytelling Apps

Posterous- With this app, learners can include a mix of text, photos, audio, and videos as well as tags and location information in a blog post. Share immediately on Facebook and Twitter! Even allow others to add to your posts (set this up through the web app vs. the mobile app). Free version available online as well as various mobile devices including the iPhone, iPod, Android, and Blackberry.

StoryRobe- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos and videos. You have the option to upload to Youtube or send it through e-mail. If it’s in their e-mail, then the parents can easily e-mail their child’s production to their friends! You don’t need an Internet connection to create the stories, but you do to send them! Available on the iPad and iPod.

Splice- Best video editing app for the iPhone, iPod, and iPad that is free. Add audio, transitions, images, and more.

Fotobabble- It’s incredibly easy for children and adults to create audio/visual stories on the iPhone and iPod Touch using this app. Use the built in microphone, or any 3rd party microphone to create audio recordings with photos.

Skqueak- Almost like the Fotobabble app except it allows you up to 7 backgrounds free, voice recording, 5 minutes, and you can doodle on your images. Free for iOS.

Sock Puppets- If you enjoy playing with sock puppets, you'll love this app that allows students to create a sock puppet show. Choose the sock puppet characters, personalize the characters by adding your voice, select the scene and props, and record a video. Send this by email or upload to Youtube. Watch this great example. Available on the iPad and iPod.

Puppet Pals- IChoose the western characters, personalize the characters by adding your voice, select the scene and props, and record a video. Send this by email or upload to Youtube. Available on the iPad and iPod.

StoryKit- Create an electronic storybook by drawing on the screen, uploading images, recording sound effects and voice, laying out the elements of the story (text boxes, images, paint, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize, reordering pages, and uploading to the StoryKit web server. Email a link to the story. The application includes four public domain children’s books to rewrite and rearrange into a new story. Available on the iPad and iPod.

Animoto- Upload up to 10 images, choose a soundtrack from the library (many nice holiday tunes to choose from, and click a button to make a 30-second video. Sync your videos with your Animoto.com account, download videos for offline viewing, and make longer ones with an All-Access Pass. Available on the iPad and iPod.

Videolicious- video creation in 3 easy steps

Create A Comic App

Toontastic Toon Tube (for iPad)

Cartoon Studio (iPhone/iPod/iPad app)- The free version gives you 3 strips with 2 characters and you can choose from various backgrounds and characters.

Capzles- free timeline creation and multimedia tool on itunes.

Voicethread- one of the best free collaborative creation tools

DoodleCast Pro App- Draw and make a video with voice. $0.99 in the Apple app store.

PhotoPeach slideshow app for iDevices

Pic Collage- Available on both IOS and Android. Create pic collages.

Toca Tailor Fairy Tales- Dress up and create fairy tale characters. Itunes

NightZooKeeper- is a great free storytelling app about animals. Kids listen to stories about animals, play games, and create their own animals stories. Also check out their great website of lesson plan ideas. www.nightzookeeper.com/teachers