Control Alt Achieve: Recorded Webinar - Storytelling Activities with Google Tools

Monday, July 8, 2024

Recorded Webinar - Storytelling Activities with Google Tools

I recently had the pleasure to present sessions at the High Impact Conference for Educators, which is an event we put on through the Educational Service Center where I work. All of my sessions were recorded, and over time I hope to share several of the videos.

Please note that the recordings are a lot more casual than some of my other videos, as this is from an in-person conference with a room full of attendees, so there is some chatting and questions and such. Hopefully though you will still find the content helpful.

For this recording, this is the session:

Once Upon a Google: Innovative Storytelling with Google Tools
Google tools provide many ways for students and educators to create and share stories. Slides can be used to create storybooks, e-books, comic strips, stop-motion animation, and story soundboards; Docs can be used for "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories, emoji rebus stories, and black-out poetry; Sheets can be used to create random writing prompts for inspiration, and more!

See below for the full recording, as well as the resources from the session. Please feel free to reach out with any questions, feedback, or suggestions you have on this topic.

▶️ Recorded Training (48 minutes)

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🧰 Session Resources

Session Resource Document - https://bit.ly/curts-story
Session Slideshow - View slides - Copy slides

🐉 Choose Your Own Adventure Stories

This is an activity where students use Google Docs to create an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story.

Blog post - "Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs" - Website link
Sample - "Dragon Quest" Interactive Story - Google Document link

😀 Emoji Rebus Stories

This is an activity where students use Google Docs to write rebus stories that use both words and pictures, in this case emojis.

Blog post - "5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs" - Website link
Wintertime example - Blog post link - Template link
Valentine example - Blog post link - Template link
Halloween example - Blog post link - Template link

⬛ Black Out Poetry

This is an activity where students use Google Docs to write "Black Out Poetry" by choosing which words to keep and which words to black out.

Blog post - "Black Out Poetry with Google Docs" - Website link
Example poem - Google Docs link

🎞️ Stop Motion Animation

This is an activity where students use Google Slides to create stop-motion animations to tell stories and explain concepts.

Recorded Webinar (1 hour) - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Blog post - Webinar video
Session Agenda - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Google Doc link
Slideshow - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Google Slides link
Blog post - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Blog post

🔊 Story Soundboards

This is an activity where Google Slides is used to create an interactive sound board for sound effects when reading a story.

"Creating a Google Slides Soundboard" - Resource Doc, Google Slides link, Blog Post
Recorded tutorial video (30 minutes) - "MoteCon 2022: Building a Soundboard using Mote and Google Slides" - YouTube link
Example Soundboard - "Red the Raccoon Weathers the Storm" - Google Slides link

🎲 Random Writing Prompts

This is an activity where Google Sheets is used to generate random writing prompts to inspire student writing.

Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets - Blog post - Google Sheets template
Emoji Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets - Blog post - Google Sheets template