Thing 6: Digital Storytelling
I will be honest in this post. I am not technologically savvy or patient with technology. I tried a few of the sites like Sutori, which definitely looks useful and I would love to have the students use it for vocabulary practice, timelines, or for key events in a story. However, I wanted to do so much and it was becoming time-consuming looking for images and going back and forth between all the tabs I had open. If I was more organized though and had all my materials handy it would have been much simpler. I will definitely try this for future review and lessons.
I really wanted to try Adobe Spark, but I was having technical difficulties and couldn't get past the initial sign up page.
I think I signed up for their monthly newsletter (oops) and then the site kept freezing.
The one I found most simple to use at the moment was Teach-nology While it is only 6 events and very simple, students could each pick a couple of main events and go into more detail and create a larger class timeline. They could also add their own images or drawing. Here is a link to my basic timeline that could lead to much more : Civil War Timeline
Yeah, it is a lot easier to test out these tools if you've already collected a few photos. Most of my tests use the same random 5 photos over and over. But also, you ended up finding a tool that is simple and works well! So, well done. (I couldn't see the actual timeline, the link led to a file that wasn't available. No worries though, I know you did the work!)
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