50 Ways to Tell a Story

Back when I was in school, it was very tricky to create a multimedia presentation. The equipment was expensive and hard to have access to, not many people knew what to do with it, and it took a lot of time to create. The most exciting tool that I had access to was powerpoint...and people bombarded each other with bullets on their slides.

Today we have hundreds of web 2.0 tools at our fingertips to tell "our story". When I say "story", I mean it in a general sense of the word. Not in the traditional sense like the story of the 3 Little Pigs. A "story" is basically anything that you want to share with the world, what information to you want to pass on? And how much cooler is it to share your story through using a variety of multimedia tools (images + text + audio). I'll answer that - very!

Here is a storyteller who took a simple story about his beloved dog Dominoe, and told it 50+ ways, using a different web 2.0 tool each time. Check out the link here. Is there a web 2.0 tool that stood out for you? Which one are you excited to try?

So let's put this new knowledge to use. First we need a story. Your "story" is going to be all that you have learned in geography so far (grade 7's it is the 5 themes and for you 8's it's all about human geography). What I want you to do it take some time to check out your choices of tools for creating "your story". I want you to choose between animoto or one true media. Once you have made a choice, take what you know and create an interesting way to share your knowledge with the world.

Happy "story" creating!! I'm excited to see what you come up with.

Mrs. Dowker