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Apps and Websites for Digital Storytelling

Here is a more comprehensive list of digital storytelling apps and websites - 
  • 30hands Learning - A fantastic user-friendly iOS app for creating a story by adding a narration to photos. Also, 30hands has excellent video tutorials to help users create a story.
  • Animaker Class - An excellent site with an educational portal for students to create animated stories.
  • Book Creator - A great mobile (iOS/Chrome) app that educators everywhere are using to create stunning eBooks and digital stories.
  • BoomWriter - A fantastic safe site for students (teachers create accounts - student email not required) to create digital stories/books through a collaborative process. Once a story is completed, it gets published online and an actual book can then be ordered.
  • Buncee - The world's leading digital canvas for creating digital stories and more. Best of all, is the educational portal that allows educators to track and monitor student progress and assignments.
  • Comic Life - Probably the most popular digital comic iOS app for creating comics. This is a very fun and easy to use app for telling the story by creating a customized comic.
  • Digital Films - A nice site for creating a digital animated story and then embedded into a site/blog to share it with others.
  • Imagine Forest - An innovative site where a student can create a digital story or use a story starter for brainstorming that writing process.
  • Little Bird Tales - One of the most popular sites for digital storytelling that allows students to create their own art and record their voice. Also, there is a excellent iOS app available for mobile learning.
  • Make Beliefs Comix - A nice site for creating digital comics in a number of different languages as well of lots of educational resources.
  • Motion Comics - A cool site for creating animated comics that lets users embed into a site/blog.
  • My Story - A wonderful iPad app for creating a digital book/story. All a user has to do is draw or upload a picture, add some text, and then record audio to tell a story.
  • Nawmal - A popular site for creating stunning looking animated videos with educational portal.
  • Pixntell - A simple to use iOS app for organizing iPhotos into a story then recording audio.
  • Pixton for Schools - A nice site with educational portal for creating digital comics.
  • Plotagon - An innovative site that reminds me of the now defunct Xtranormal, where are user selects a character then types up a script and Plotagon takes care of the rest.
  • Speech Journal - A nice iPad app for pairing recorded audio with a digital picture from one's iPhoto library to create a story.
  • Sock Puppets - A very fun iOS app that allows users to lip sync audio to a sock puppet, one of my kids favorites.
  • Story Creator - One of my favorite iOS apps for creating a digital story by syncing audio and photos together. Also, an option allows for highlighting of text during narration to help a student with Reading.
  • Storybird - A great site with educational portal where students create art inspired stories and then embed into a site/blog.
  • StoryJumper - A fantastic site for creating a digital story by building a story from scratch or choosing one of the story starters. A student can add objects, text, and even upload their own art too.
  • StoryKit - A simple to use iOS app for telling a story by adding text, photos, and audio. 
  • Storyboard That - A wonderful site with educational portal that teachers are using in a wide variety of ways including digital storytelling.
  • Strip Designer - A iOS app similar to Comic Life for creating a digital comic.
  • Tellagami - A nice way to tell a short story by creating an avatar and then recording audio, similar to Voki.
  • ToonDoo Spaces - A great site with educational portal for students to create digital comics.
  • UtellStory - A nice place to tell a story through audio, images, and video, as well as collaborating with others.
  • VoiceThread - One of the most popular educational sites/apps for creating a interactive digital storytelling by uploading multimedia content and recording an audio narration. A finished VoiceThread can then be embedded into a site/blog.
  • WriteComics - A simple to use site for creating a digital comic to tell a story.
  • Zimmer Twins - A fun site with educational portal for creating animated movies/stories.

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