Digital+Storytelling+apps

Storytelling continues to gain popularity as an educational activity. As it stimulates a deep thinking and basic literacy, it also enhances and enriches the learning experience for student voices. Storytelling is a very powerful way of communicating with our peers and portrays to others who we are and what our own stories are. It also provides an opportunity to connect with a group by creating a shared experience. This is vital in any community but more so in an educational setting where we are nurturing and fostering creativity.

Now digital storytelling has gone mobile - so get ready for the many varied ways students find themselves expressing their world. Here are a number of iPad / iPhone apps that provide tools for these emerging mobile devices enabling students to participate in the long and rich history of storytelling.




 * Storyrobe**

This is an app that allows you to share your story with other Storyrobe users. You can add to existing stories to create longer tales of travel, events or history or you can create your own. This app can be used for work, school or just to share stories with each other.




 * StoryPatch**

Storypatch is a storytelling app designed for children to create their own picture books. It has hundreds of images in it’s library as well as the ability to import photos. Students will love this app because they will be creating fun and engaging stories almost immediately.




 * PuppetPals**

Create your own animated stories. PuppetPals let you simply pick out the characters, drag them onstage and tap record. Movements and audio is recorded for your performance. If you get the Directors Pass you can act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight scary monsters or play the part of a wild west bandit.




 * Puppet Animation (1.99)**

Puppet Animation is an innovative application that lets you create an animation using the image of your choice. You just need to prepare one image. No need to prepare many time lapse animation pages! The application has a simple user interface and there are no difficult controls like usual animation software. When you create a funny animation, send it to your friends or publish it on your blog! You can also export it as a .gif file to use in greeting cards, slides or other personal digital fun.




 * Sock Puppets**

Sock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them via iPad photo, Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice. Friends can work together with multiple puppets and create hilarious conversations. Record and share.




 * Tom and Ben Talking News**

Talking Tom & Ben have become famous TV news anchors! Talk to them and they will repeat what you say in turns. Create & record funny conversations between them. You can also customize the app by uploading your personal [|flip video camera reviews],. Once your personal video is in the app, make Tom & Ben comment on the video. And of course you can record the conversation and send the video to all of your friends to see.




 * Doodlecast:**

Doodlecast is a drawing app that records your voice as you draw. Kids can choose from prompts or start a drawing from scratch. The app records the drawing process along with audio to create videos up to three minutes long. The videos are as fun to watch as they are to create.




 * FotoBabble**

Here is a real time storymaking tool - what stories do your photos tell? Use Fotobabble to create Talking Photos of events and moments in real-time and share them with friends immediately.



**Flipbook Lite + $4.99 version**

FlipBook has everything you need to get started animating, from an eraser to onion skinning (which lets you see a faint image of the previous and next frames) to layered drawing. Load images from your photo library, including images taken with your iPhone's camera, and draw on top of them. Touch Play when you're ready your movie.




 * Reel Director (Free and Pro)**

Reel allows you to create, edit and share movie clips on your iPad. Smooth or blend transition between scene changes are its biggest feature but it also does Ken Burns, text overlays, music imports and voice over capabilities. A great storytelling app.

**Splice (Free and Pro)**
While Splice is designed for the iphone or itouch, this video app is Bernajean's PERSONAL CHOICE for video editing. Create your own movie with awesome features such as video and __ [|photo] __ effects, cropping, trimming as well as synchronization of sound effects and voice-overs. Control and mix for multiple audio tracks - a SPLICE exclusive plus view without rendering - a PLUS over other video APPS! With an exclusive scrub and timeline feature that is intuitive and easy to use, gathering the raw materials to make your movie has never been easier.




 * iMovie ($4.99)**

iMovie helps you turn the HD video you shoot on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a masterpiece worthy of the red carpet (or just the one in your living room). This fun, fast, feature-rich app is designed especially for Multi-Touch.

When it’s time for your big premiere, publish right from iMovie to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or CNN iReport for your friends and family to see. It works like the MAC laptop version saving learning curves for those familiar with this video-editing tool.




 * Blurb Mobile**

Quickly create fun visual media stories on the go. Blurb Mobile uses existing libraries, imports or creates media in real time. Sequence your media - edit (rotate, crop, scale, drag and drop sequencing) - attach audio clips to images and entire story to create a great story….tap share, and your network of friends and family can receive your on facebook, twitter, tumblr and email.




 * Silent Movie Director (.99)**

Creating with Silent Movie Director delivers amazing silent and vintage movies - never been so Easy and Fun! Choose from

20’s - 60’s (for the Hippie style videos) - 70’s home videos as well as Black and White; Sepia and Vintage Sepia. Also get access to LIVE Gallery of Silent Films. A great spin on back-to-the-past!




 * StoryKit**

Create an electronic storybook with StoryKit. Write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen, tag a photograph or drawing on paper and then photograph the image. Sounds can be recorded for narration or effects and the layout elements of your story can be dragged, pinch and altered with ease.




 * Story Lines**

StoryLines is a game of 'telephone' using pictures. One storyteller begins a StoryLine with a common saying then passes it to another. A friend grows the StoryLine by illustrating that saying. Another friend titles that drawing (without seeing the original saying). Yet another friend illustrates that title, and so on. When the story is complete the StoryMakers come together to enjoy the creativity and humor in everyone’s imagination - share in gallery or on facebook.




 * Sonic Pics**

Sonic Pics app is like a narrated slideshow of your images. You can add images from your library or take new ones in app. The images can be arranged any way you like and then you records a voiceover that narrates your story as you swipe through your images.

= Comic-Making APPS =




 * Strip Designer**

This is a comic strip creation including page templates. Strip Designer lets you add photos and a couple of speech bubbles and additional effect stickers and you have a professional looking comic or graphic novel. You can even paint on the photos or draw sketches from scratch.




 * Toontastic**

Making cartoons is as easy as putting on a puppet show with Tootastic - simple press the button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your stories through play. Once you are done, Toontastic will playback your animation and voice asa cartoon for you to share with firends and classmates.




 * Cartoon Studio**

Create multi-celled cartoons straight from your iPad with Cartoon Studio. Some characters and backgrounds are included all you need to do is select the ones you want and drag them in to place. Add your speech bubbles and you can make any situation both entertaining and informative.




 * Comic Creator**

Turn your own photos into a dynamic comic book with Comic Creator. Insert images into customisable templates that allow pan, zoom in and zoom out. Add you speech bubbles from the selection and then use the app to share with other or social networks.




 * PhotoComic**

Photocomic is easy to use and discover. Start by selecting a layout, ad photos to each frame and then select one of the various bubbles to add text. Interaction with each object by double tapping. Capture the right moments and re present your story creatively.



**ComicStrip**

Create your very own comic book page using photos from your camera roll or takes new ones in-app. With ComicStrip's fun and unique layouts and caption bubbles, anyone can create the story they have always wanted to tell. Email your stories, your creations from your photo album.

Creative Expression ~ Image-Making APPS


** ScreenChomp (FREE version) ** Create video "snacks" with a simple doodling board using markers, and one-click recording of touch interactions and audio instructions on a plain background, or an image from your iPad camera roll. sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Easy for all ages to record it - sketch it and then share it creating a visible, sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly. Let ScreenChomps' "cloud" generate a simple web link you can paste anywhere - tweet or - post it to Facebook with one-click!




 * WordFoto ($1.99)**

Tap into your creative expression with self-made "illuminating" images using WordFoto. Let's authors create a visual storytelling or accompany the unfolding of a written story. Turn your photos and words into amazing typographic works of art right from your iphone or ipad2 device.




 * KaleidaCam ($1.99)**

Get inspired and create unique art with KaleidaCam. Turn your iphone or [|ipad2] device into a kaleidoscope and capture the world in an entirely new way. Tap into your creative expression with self-made "illuminating" images to create a visual storytelling or accompany the unfolding of a written story.




 * Pic Stitch**

Combine multiple photos into one. Pic Stitch can create before and after sequences, panoramic or other creative expressions. Has twenty-seven layouts w/ pan, rotate, flip, mirror and zoom features. Some comments about file management but may be solved by now.

Publishing APPS



 * eBook Creator (Free)**

Creative easy and simple audio ebook maker now possible! Its interface is designed for all ages and skill levels so that young kids are able to make ebooks using the app. Also available on [|kindle]. Create from the beginning with images, text on images, audio and voice recordings in four easy steps. If you have printed books at home, the books can be transformed into ebooks in just minutes. Record your voice reading pages, the app turns pages and play the recordings just like you do the same thing.

eBook Creator may be the single happiest publishing tool yet!




 * Creative Book Builder ($6.99)**

Everyone can be a publisher now! Creative Book Builder app Iphone 4 screen protector is very easy to use and creates a great looking ebook on your iPad. It enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go with their iPad. All published ebooks can be read by any ePub reader including iBooks.

★ Add title, description, images, videos, audio recording, music, links, and lists

★ Customize your cover image

★ Customize book information including author, title, description, subject, and publisher etc.

★ Organize chapters into different sections




 * Demibooks (FREE version)**

Experience iPad-based easy-to-use authoring software for building interactive books as APPS. Demibooks lets you design your own book apps with realistic physics (complex behaviors with simple clicks), animations, audio – music, effects and speech and visual effects. Design and build pages allowing readers navigation through your stories. You can also [|win an ipad] here.@http://iphoneappsnews1.blogspot.com/