All of the tools we have explored in our school district 23 Things for telling stories such as Toondoo, Scrapblog, Slideshare are on Levine’s list. It’s amazing that there are more than 50 tools out there!

Anyway, the workshop is called 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story and has three easy steps with guidelines on how to create a story. Number 3 has the list of 50 web 2.0 tools to tell a story. Number 2 “Find some media” is a very useful guideline since shows links to sites were you can find images, audio, videos without infringing copyrights. He
mentions THE RULE in section 2 of the workshop

“Now here is a our rule- the media files you use in your story have to be ones that are licensed or shared with permission to re-use; this is the only way you can safely then share your new creation knowing it does not contain any copyrighted material. So just finding a picture via Google is not satisfactory. For each media file you find, document the source by title and URL and find a person or organization to use to give credit.” Levine, Alan. “Finding Media for Your Story.” 14 Oct. 2007. 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. CogDoogRooWiki: Alan’s Levine October 2007 Trip Down Under. 9 Feb. 2008. <http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia>.

So, we need to remember that when we share, we also need to be respectful of other people’s work. We need to be an example to our students and raise our expectations by teaching our students about copyrights and how to avoid plagiarism.

Here are the links to Levine’s step for telling a story with 2.0 web tools:

1. Outline a Story Idea
2. Find Some Media
3. Pick a Tool to Build Your Story

He has another workshop called Precious Web 2.0 Gems