Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad2013 Innovation Showcase Vicki Bradford & Jackie Parker

Story Kit Description from iTunes:Create an electronic storybook. Make use of the little gaps in life - on the sofa after dinner, in the back seat of the car, or on a train - to do something creative together.

To create your story:* Write some text.* Illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album.* Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects.* Layout the elements of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize.* Add, reorder, or delete pages from your book.

Your story is always saved in your iPhone. Carry it with you and work on it any time. Upload your story to the StoryKit web server and email a link to the story from within the app. No account is necessary. Stories are private.

The application includes four public domain children's books that you can rewrite and rearrange into your own new story. These are scans of the original bound books that have been specially processed for use on the iPhone. Take "The Three Bears" and make them four. Rewrite "The Three Little Pigs" with the wolf as the victim. Or, start with a blank book and write whatever story is on your minds.

My Story Description from iTunes:----- The best storybook creator just got much better! -----Create and share ebooks by adding drawings, photos, and stickers. Then record your voice on every page and share your story with friends, family and classmates. We’ve made My Story super teacher friendly by adding multiple authors and syncing across multiple iPads! So now you can have all your classroom iPads in sync! Perfect for the home or classroom.

* YOUR STUDENT, THE AUTHORMy Story combines drawing, stickers, photos, voice, and text to promote literacy and creativity in ebook format. Then share the book on the web, social networks, email, or directly to iBooks. Your child’s story, art, coloring, photos, ideas, and voice recordings are saved forever!

FEATURES:* REDESIGNED FROM THE GROUND UP- The modern and simple design makes for a really great experience for kids. There are no confusing interfaces, everything is a tap away and colorfully highlighted.

* MULTIPLE AUTHORS FOR CLASSROOM AND HOME- Tens of thousands of teachers are already using My Story in their classroom, alongside parents who love using it at home. Now all children can have their own bookshelf.

Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad2013 Innovation Showcase Vicki Bradford & Jackie Parker

* CLASSROOM FRIENDLY SYNCING- Now you can sign up for a free Bright Bot account and sync your students/authors across multiple iPads in the classroom automatically!

* DRAWING, STICKERS, PHOTOS, AND TEXT- Simple, friendly interface. We’ve made My Story as simple to use as possible. We believe in taking away complexity so children can dive into creating. Young kids will love just coloring and using stickers. Older kids will love to illustrate, add text, and make more complex books.- Multiple brushes. Pencil, Paint Brush, & Marker.- Stickers: We’ve included dozens of stickers like dinos and farm animals to help jumpstart creativity without taking away from creative expression.- Photos: Add photos from your photo library or take a photo with your iPad’s camera and place it on the canvas.- 29 vibrant and fun colors to choose from.

* VOICE RECORDING AND WRITING- Easy-to-use button lets you start and stop voice recording for every page of the book- Voice recordings is integrated when your book is published!- Each page can have a page caption or manipulatable text right on the canvas.

* PUBLISHING, SHARING & READING- Create an unlimited number of books.- Share your story book via the Web, Email, Facebook, Twitter and to anyone on any device or computer!- Publish your story book to iBooks (and other apps that can read ePub files) and read your book alongside other books from the iBookStore at any time!- Read the story straight from the app with our reading mode.

* OUR VISIONWe love kids. My Story is a product of CauseLabs, an innovation firm for social good. We’ve built the app to help children tell their stories while building trust with the important adults in their lives. Talk with us via support@mystoryapp.org or @MyStoryApp. We love to hear from you & see your stories!

Toontastic - A Creative Learning app for the iPad that empowers kids to draw, animate, and narrate their own cartoons and share them with friends & family around the world.Walks you through the parts of a story through their Story Arc:Setup - Introduce the characters and story setting

● Have to choose from their settings within the app - The Barnacle, The Castle Gate, The Shipwreck, Tranquility Plains, can draw your own setting - there are more settings you can purchase

● Add Toys ○ ProtoToys - ProtoPaws - can make custom animals○ Special FX - animated Dizzy Birds○ Pirates○ Castle○ Atlantis○ Space Rangers

Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad2013 Innovation Showcase Vicki Bradford & Jackie Parker

Conflict - Create a problem for your main characterChallenge - Make the problem even more difficultClimax - Help the main character solve the problemResolution - Show that the problem has been settled

Description from iTunes:Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a creative storytelling app that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world. With over 7 million cartoons created in 200+ countries, parents and teachers rave about the app... and kids can't stop creating!Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube, the app's global storytelling network for kids.

Special Features Include:- Toy Camera: Add family faces to characters and turn your playroom into your very own Hollywood soundstage.- ProtoToys: From monsters to monster trucks, you can draw your own animated characters complete with rocket boosters, helicopter blades, flying capes, and more animated effects.- Special FX: Create your own summer blockbuster complete with explosions, tornadoes, rainstorms… and falling anvils :)- All Access Pass: Ignite your family’s imaginations with 50 playsets chock full of pirates, princesses, and far away galaxies. That's EVERY TOY in Toontastic - unlocked automatically with each new release at no extra cost - a 60% savings!

Here is a link to a pdf teacher’s guide: http://launchpadtoys.com/site-items/pdf/Toontastic-ParentTeacherGuide-LaunchpadToys.pdf

Puppet Pals HD Description from iTunes:Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!

Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.

This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!

Your creations are only limited by your imagination (and voice acting skills in my case).

FEATURES - Create an actor from a photo- Use a photo as a backdrop for your storytelling- zoom and rotate your characters using two fingers- flip them around with a double tap- a wide variety of creative characters to download (including famous talk show hosts and politicians)- limitless possibilities of story creations- buy the director's pass and receive ALL current and FUTURE content!

Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad2013 Innovation Showcase Vicki Bradford & Jackie Parker

Puppet Pals 2 created by Polished Play - teacher guide: http://www.polishedplay.com/parent--teacherguide.html

Description from iTunes:• “Puppet Pals is an amazing app that lets you create animated cartoons.” -David Pogue (New York Times)

Children unlock creativity with this easy to use (but hard to put down) interactive puppet show! Even young children can create high quality cartoons from their imaginations. Kids can even star in the show alongside the built-in characters!

Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog).• Create short instructional videos (in any learning area)• Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells• Help reluctant public speakers present to the class• Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills• Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations

Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!

Sock Puppets Description from iTunes:

● This app allows younger students to explore creative storytelling. With this app, students can create puppet shows that review vocabulary, model behavior, relate social studies or science facts, express their feelings, or simply retell a story.

● Sock puppet shows help children develop language skills, imagination, problem solving, and creative thinking.● There is a free version and a paid version called Sock Puppets Complete that comes with additional content and longer

recording time. ● THe free version gives you 30 second “puppet shows” and the paid version gives you a total of 90 second “puppet shows.”● THere is no limit to how many shows you can store in the app, it is dependent on the memory of your device.● You can only share the shows through facebook or Youtube, however you can save the shows in the app and present them

using airserver.● Both are available in the App Store.● Classroom Uses: Students/teachers can create puppet shows to

-Explain a science concept -Retell a story -Tell about an event from history -Share information about a famous person -Model appropriate social behavior

Digital Storytelling Apps for iPad2013 Innovation Showcase Vicki Bradford & Jackie Parker

Storyboard templates - Students need to answer the question, “What is the purpose of your story?”

https://itlsworkshops.pbworks.com/f/blank_storyboard.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=storyboard+templates&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=99GdUuerMIirkAfYjIC4Cg&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=642

https://docs.google.com/a/iss.k12.nc.us/document/d/1Lo8JjDZ0rpZauWtyrrlC1hVXXhHTvmJytdpEVmNdhKo/edit

https://drive.google.com/a/iss.k12.nc.us/file/d/0B_LZzYPJpsF5aGhjYW9CUmJhNlU/edit?usp=sharing