What sort of computer applications can be used to create digital stories?
Almost any word processing programme can be combined with scanned drawings or digital photos to make an attractive story. You can also use image or photo-processing programmes, alternatively with slide presentation software, to produce an exciting, professional-quality result that you can save on disk or CD Rom, or upload directly according to instructions from your national contest organiser. With even the youngest child you can easily produce high-quality results with an innovative, down-loadable freeware called mini-book, available at www.technolink.lu More ambitious story-tellers may wish to create their entry as web pages. Certain well-known ISPs offer limited but sufficient online space for this. See the appropriate chapter. You can obtain further information from the ICT coordinator in your school or from a national contest organiser. Teachers and parents are invited to ensure that authors include a credits page at the end of their story, indicating copyrights and, of course, co
