Top 5 Digital Story Telling Sites

Digital Storytelling is a great way for students to create online content and share it with others.  Our students have been successful using some these digital storytelling tools.

Bitstrips is a comic strip maker.  It is one of the best digital story telling tools I've seen.  I have written before about Bitstrips here. Below is an example of one of our student's Bitstrips on the topic of adversity.

Zooburst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.  But there's a lot more to Zooburst than that!  Check out the about page to see all that Zooburst allows you to do!


Here are two examples of Zooburst stories for you to look at.

My Story Maker is so simple to use.  The program walks students through writing a story step-by-step.  My Story Maker will write the story for you or you can write your own.  It is great for younger students.  

Storybird is unique in that the students pick an artwork theme and then use the pictures in that theme to write a story.  Drag and drop makes it easy to use.  Students add their own words to each page.  Teachers can create an educator account which allows for student passwords.  Here is what Storybird says about their site:


"Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback. Sign up today for a free Class account!"



The unexpected founders of Google by LukeHoran on Storybird

Story Jumper is am impressive digital story maker.  It allows you to create a book using either the pictures supplied on the site, your own pictures or even your own drawings.  We used Story Jumper to write explorer reports earlier in the year.  Here is the earlier post about Story Jumper.

Click here to see this example of a Story Jumper.