Reading+2.0+&+Digital+Storytelling


 * =[[image:StripeReading2.0.jpg width="72" height="72" align="left" caption="Join the Reading 2.0 wiki created by Anita Beaman & Amy Oberts!" link="@readingtech:home"]]= || media type="custom" key="6469373" || The **Reading 2.0** wiki was originally called, "Using Technology to Promote Books--Not Replace Them." Its mission is to highlight engaging web tools, provide example learning activities, and showcase a variety of student creations. The tools are generally ranked in order from "low tech" (limited tech savvy skills required) to "high tech." All of the tools are free, unless noted.


 * Tools featured in the Smackdown slides (at left):**
 * Mo Willems' interactive activities
 * WebKinz (Tip: Ask local businesses to sponsor classroom "pets")
 * Preferred screensaver wizard: Ace (~$15)
 * Low-tech labels; our sample templates
 * Word cloud book ads | Other generators: ABCya'; Tagxedo (...thank you, Tammy Worcester, for sharing Tagxedo at ISTE 2010!)
 * PictureTrail (book cover carousel) | Also terrific: One True Media
 * Book trailers | PhotoStory (free); Adobe's Visual Communicator 3 (not free...but really powerful) ||


 * Digital Storytelling: Tools that Pack a PUNCH! **

1. **Blabberize** is a web application that allows you to create talking avatars from photographs. Just upload a photo, select the area for the mouth and record, phone in or upload a recording. Your avatar is now ready to tell its story. Blabberize allows you to link to your creation, embed your it on your website, or download it in video form.

media type="custom" key="6471511" [|rumble bear l.mp4]

2. **Google Search Stories** are awesome! By typing in search terms, you create a short story--no tech skills are necessary! This is a great way to get students started with digital storytelling. Teacher hint: Create one YouTube account for the class and change the password after the class has made their search stories.

media type="youtube" key="AmownwXbmro" height="359" width="612" [|google lit trips.mp4]

3. **Voki** Create online talking avatars which can be embedded in your blog, wiki, etc. Kids really enjoy customizing them and speaking through them. These are great way of getting kids to speak up in public and tell their stories. media type="custom" key="6399823" [|voki demo.mp4]

4. **Zooburst** Create virtual pop-up books! [|zooburst.mp4]

5. **Toondoo** is great for creating cartoon strips online. Students can upload their own pictures and backgrounds as wall as draw from the extensive ToonDoo Galleries. Toondoo Spaces is available for schools at a price per student. media type="custom" key="6471421" [|toondoo.mp4]

6. **[|XtraNormal]** Students can create text to voice digital animated stories using this Web 2.0 tool. Here is an example from one of Karen's 5th grade research classes: media type="youtube" key="03fNAlDsZmU" height="344" width="425" [|extranormal.mp4]

Other Tools We Would Like to Explore: **  "The Zooming Presentation Editor"  Example: Anna Zaitzeff's Maximum Ride Prezi
 * Prezi Cre**[[image:readingtech:PreziIcon.jpg width="173" height="82" align="left" link="@http://prezi.com/"]]**ations:** 

//What to Do About Alice?// example  Glogster.edu collection of student book reviews: U.S.S. McKillop Library
 * Booktalker/Movie** **Director Guru: Doug Valentine** [[image:readingtech:GlogsterEDUIcon.jpg align="left" link="@http://edu.glogster.com/"]]  | His students are creating AMAZING book trailers and reviews! 

E-Books **

Free Audio Books that need to be downloaded
librivox Audio Books for Free Free Classic Audio Books [|The Gutenberg Project] Lit2Go OpenCulture free downloadable Audio Books-mp3 Books Should be Free

Read On-Line
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Google Books] - use Advanced Search to look for specific books [|OnLine Libraries] - //online libraries that provide fiction, nonfiction and reference books at no charge. Here is a list of the best 25 places to read free books online.// Read Book Online University of Pensilvania Online Books Childrens Books Online

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An online library of illustrated books
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Big Universe - Read and recommend books online Digital Book Index - Classic Books; login required Bartleby - All of Shakespeare's plays and poetry Sur La Lune E - Fairy tale and folklore anthologies, critical texts, poetry and fiction University of Virgina - Famous children's books Biblomania - Online books by famous authors [|The Baldwin Online Children's Literaure Resource] - Classic Children's Literature [|The Gutenberg Project] - The first producer of e-books [|Google Books] - A large collection of online books and magazines [|**Audio Book Treasury**] - Public domain audio-books International Children's Books - Digital books in many different languages from different cultures. Many Books.net : Browse through the [|most popular] titles, [|recommendations], or [|recent reviews] __and__ [|special collections]. There are 25,186 eBooks available//.// //World Public Library: Browse e-books by My First Books, Children's collection, and Young adult collections// Link to Joyce's collection

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Groups and Personal Collections
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Shelfari]- Create your own bookshelf, identify favorites, books read, books you plan to read and wish lists as well as form reading groups and share reviews and suggestions. [|LibraryThing] -Create your own bookshelf, identify favorites, books read, books you plan to read and wish lists as well as form reading groups. [|BookSprouts] - Create online reading clubs, nominate and vote on books to read.

Created by Jennifer Garcia, Karen Kliegman, and Amy Oberts