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Creating Stories With Frames and Audacity **Kent Manning** Your students can tell stories using **Frames** and **Audacity** software.
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 * Frames** is software developed by Tech4Learning and is multimedia authoring software, originally designed to create stop motion animations. You know the ones where clay figures are animated to tell a story.


 * Download**: Frames - OSAPAC Licensed - There will be install disks available to Publicly Funded Schools


 * Audacity** is free software and is used to record voices and mix sounds with the voices. It is widely used in Ontario schools and may even be on your image.


 * Download**: Audacity - Free cross platform sound editor

Audacity Tutorial

I'll be focussing on **personal narrative stories** and **stop motion stories**. We'll talk about project ideas and you'll get a chance to try both Frames and Audacity.

Many of the technology infused writing samples you'll see at my station are from a Writing Continuum Matrix we've developed at our school district. As well, I lean heavily on Media Literacy Expectation 3.4 of the Ontario Curriculum Creating Media Texts and have [|created a website] to list some of the possibilities.

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 * ===Digital Storytelling with Frames===
 * **Stop Motion Animation** - Testimonial from a High School Student