Thing 37 Photo Tales

I was interested in checking out this "thing" because I love taking pictures and doing something with them. First I checked out Animoto and created an account, I found the program to be too limiting for my taste and wasn't pleased with the end result. Then I tried out OneTrue Media and spent quite a long time creating a video and all the components that went with it. I was much more pleased with this program and loved the end result which I published to my blog page and sent to lots of people.
I think I will spend a lot of time checking out all of the different links in this thing. I can see a lot of use for these types of sites for teaching.

Thing 39 Digital Storytelling

Well I decided to jump ahead and pick and choose the "things" that I was interested in learning about. I chose this one because I am looking at a business my friend has started YourStoryBooksOnline.com It is about telling your story thru storybooking. Safely archiving and preserving family history, story, traditions, and culture and making and creating books to be shared and past on to generations to come. Every Body has a Story What is Yours ? She tells me.......

The first thing I checked out was VoiceThread and I thought that was kinda cool. I click on the tutorial to see what it was all about and had myself a good laugh at a couple of the examples. I don't know that it is something I would use a lot but I think it would be fun to put up a photo and then make up a story about it. My friend can do that too - and make an entire book about the picture and include hundreds of your own pictures to tell the story.

I went and checked out tiltshift.com and thought it would be neat to upload a picture and then manipulate it. I found that using the Studio 2 thru my friends website was way more easier and I can do it over and over with many many pictures on each and every page.

As an Example: See Below.. at the bottom of my blog.