Multimedia narrative: Digital Storytelling in Education

But wait, what's storytelling? “ The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.”

“ The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.”

But wait, what's storytelling? “ The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.” (Fredric Brown, “Knock”, 1948)

“ The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.

There was a knock on the door.”

(Fredric Brown, “Knock”, 1948)

But wait, what's storytelling? It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

But wait, what's storytelling? Delight and instruct About someone important About an important event About what one does CDS Cookbook. http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

Delight and instruct

About someone important

About an important event

About what one does

CDS Cookbook.

http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

But wait, what's storytelling? Exercise one: what isn’t storytelling?

Digital storytelling in the 1990s Web 1.0 storytelling Hypertext Multimedia Browser-focused Connected with offline, analog content (textbooks) Evanescent

Web 1.0 storytelling

Hypertext

Multimedia

Browser-focused

Connected with offline, analog content (textbooks)

Evanescent

Web 1.0 storytelling Example: Dreaming Methods (2000ff) http://www.dreamingmethods.com/

Example: Dreaming Methods (2000ff)

http://www.dreamingmethods.com/

Example: “Ted’s Caving Journal” (circa 2001) (one copy, from http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html )

Example: “Ted’s Caving Journal” (circa 2001)

Features: Multilinear Multimedia Browserish Serial structure

Features:

Multilinear

Multimedia

Browserish

Serial structure

Web 1.0 era storytelling Email chain letters, jokes Social Boundaries fuzzy Microcontent Virtual community facilitation (1980s on) (Snopes.com)

Email chain letters, jokes

Social

Boundaries fuzzy

Microcontent

Virtual community facilitation (1980s on)

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Digital storytelling roots Digital Storytelling curriculum

Digital Storytelling curriculum

Digital storytelling roots Effective: Storytelling, not technology per se Personal connection NITLE variant: Non-personal narratives Campus focus Digital Storytelling at Ukaiah, 2006

Effective:

Storytelling, not technology per se

Personal connection

NITLE variant:

Non-personal narratives

Campus focus

Digital storytelling roots Educational projects growing Community Curricula Support ( http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/StorytellingintheAgeofthe/42327 )

Educational projects growing

Community

Curricula

Support

Now for Web 2.0 storytelling Flickr and storytelling Tell a story in 5 frames group “ The Chase” ( Benjamin! , 2009) http://flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157611666013264/

Flickr and storytelling

Tell a story in 5 frames group

Flickr and storytelling In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand' (moliere1331, 2005)

Flickr and storytelling

In the Tell a story in 5 frames group, 'Alone With The Sand'

Social photo stories Example: « Farm to Food », Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories

Social photo stories

Social photo stories Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/ ) Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/ )

Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories Pedagogies: Remix Archive work Social presentation Visual literacy ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Pedagogies:

Remix

Archive work

Social presentation

Visual literacy

Web video storytelling Connect with I ( http://www.connectwithi.com/ ) Serial video Fan content Physical content

Connect with I ( http://www.connectwithi.com/ )

Serial video

Fan content

Physical content

Web video storytelling lonelygirl15 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 ) YouTube serial video content Local fan content Distributed response Hoax plot

lonelygirl15 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 )

YouTube serial video content

Local fan content

Distributed response

Hoax plot

Starting off Idea germ: person, problem, space? Concept to explore Media to explore Imagining an audience Realizing the timeframe

Idea germ: person, problem, space?

Concept to explore

Media to explore

Imagining an audience

Realizing the timeframe

Strategy and tactics CDS set of principles: point of view dramatic question emotional content voice (style) sound economy pacing

CDS set of principles:

point of view

dramatic question

emotional content

voice (style)

sound

economy

pacing

Strategy and tactics Sense of crisis or problem Persons and characters Multimedia complement Varied timing Enough time Beginnings and endings

Sense of crisis or problem

Persons and characters

Multimedia complement

Varied timing

Enough time

Beginnings and endings

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Liberal Education Today

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http://markets.nitle.org/

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