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One Story, 50 Tools, Infinite Possibilities — PBS.org/Learning Now

This post tells a story about an educator, but it’s great value is links to various online storytelling tools.

Educator Alan Levine has proven the adage that there’s more than one side to every story by demonstrating 50 multimedia techniques to present the same tale. The result is an extraordinary collection of online creativity tools, with demonstrations of how each one was used to convey his original story. The classroom possibilities are simply mind-blowing.

It all began with a 60-second story contest a while back. Alan took up the challenge by putting together a short video slide show that tells the tale of an encounter with a stray dog named Dominoe.