Scrapbooks

Use the tools below to create scrapbooks online that come complete with many templates, graphics, and doodads. toc

Sway
"Create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more."
 * Create interactive posters with images, documents, videos, tweets, audio files and more.
 * All users need accounts but they are FREE. If you have Office 365, Sway is part of that package.
 * Sway can be used for a variety of purposes: Content delivery, demonstration of learning, newsletters, blogging, sharing resources, etc.
 * Sway Tutorials
 * Examples:
 *  [] - Scroll to the bottom for many examples
 *  [|aka.ms/SwayEDU] - Sway in Education
 *  [|https://aka.ms/swayignite2015] - Office Sway: Reimagine How Your Ideas Come to Life - Session at the Microsoft Ignite Conference by the Sway Team, good example and other examples embedded within.
 *  [] - Go Ahead, Make my Sway Conference Presentation - Scroll down for good student examples
 *  [] - Newton's Laws in Sports - 8th grade student-created Sways
 *  [] - 6th Grade Poetry Anthologies

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Glogster EDU
"Glogster is platform that easily allows users to upload photos, videos, text, audio and more to create a unique online, interactive poster."
 * Create interactive posters with video, audio, images and more.
 * Students can create their own accounts with an email address (secondary) or teachers can create an account with student accounts attached to it (elementary).
 * If teachers create student accounts, all students are automatically "friends" and can easily view and comment on each others' glogs.
 * [|Glogster Videos from YouTube]
 * Glogter EDU Educator Resource Library (pdf)
 * Glogster EDU eToolBox - chock full of resources for Glogster EDU.
 * Glogster Tutorial, How-to Directions and Samples from Traci Blazosky
 * [[file:etoolbox/glogster handout.pdf|Glogster handout]] from Jeff Richardson
 * Renaissance Glogster Example


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Mixbook
"Mixbook was started with the idea that friends should be able to create books together. Though Mixbook software makes book creation easy and fun, it also allows groups of people to build books together. Now friends finally have a way to share their memories online!"
 * Create a scrapbook online with photos, text, backgrounds, templates and stickers.
 * A collaborative environment, so students can work on books together.
 * Accounts are needed, but multiple students can use a teacher's account at the same time.
 * [|Mixbook for Educators]
 * [|About Mixbook]
 * [|Step-by-Step Directions]

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Thinglink

 * Add links to images and video
 * Easily create interactive websites, blogs, infographics, maps, photo albums, presentations, and more!
 * Thinglink for Education - Free, can create accounts and groups for students
 * Thinglink Help Center
 * Educational Examples

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Google Tour Builder

 * Create virtual tours using Google Maps that can include text, images, videos and audio recordings.
 * Account needed - Google account
 * Can share your finished tours, but not yet collaborative
 * Google Tour Gallery
 * Example - Dianne's year in Mulhouse, France

Other Tools for Digital Scrapbooks
Consider the following applications and resources for digital scrapbook creation as well. They are meant to be 'presentation' software, but students can embed pictures, text, voice, video, etc. and personalize the pages/slides as they see fit.
 * PowerPoint
 * Word
 * OneNote
 * Pages
 * Keynote
 * Prezi
 * VoiceThread
 * Interactive Timelines
 * Also, video software such as iMovie, MovieMaker, etc could be used for narrated digital scrapbooks!