What’s My Story Using Drama & Technology For Storytelling (Ihci 2008)

Using Drama & Technology for Storytelling What’s My Story?

Oral Storytelling + Technical Tools
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Personal Tales with
Images , Music , Sound , and Your Voice
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Primarily a visual story but might also use:
First person narrative
Previously recorded audio
Text slides
Interviews
Still pictures
Graphics, icons, symbols
Pictures from the web and clip art
Video clips
Music and sound effects
Transitions

Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Gift of Student’s Voice
Power of the Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
Source: Center for Digital Storytelling, http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_1.html

For Teachers
Appeal to the diverse learning styles of the students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media
Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" in our classrooms.
Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own.
Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others.
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For Students
Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content.
Develop communications skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience.
Increase computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.

Students create narration using past, present, and future tenses
Students develop story telling techniques: transitional language, organization, storyboarding
Students do peer editing and revision
Students work individually and in teams to develop narration for their digital stories

Start with a good story
Write a script or outline
Plan and Storyboard
Think of visuals and music
Find the visuals or take the pictures and edit
Add titles, graphics, and effects
Record narration
Match visuals with audio and music
Produce, revise, present, and distribute

1. Start with a Good Story
Elements of a good story
Beginning
Problem
Changes
Solution
End
A point
Action
Drama
Emotion

Character stories
Memorial stories
Stories about events in our lives
Adventure stories
Accomplishment stories
Stories about places in our lives
Stories about what we do
Recovery stories
Love stories –discovery stories

Narrative Personal Expression Myths/folk tales Short story Oral Histories
Information / Expository Summary Reports Book reports How-to directions Biographies Advertisements
Persuasive Describe/conclude Analyze/conclude Analyze/persuade Compare/contrast Cause/effect

What am I going to say?
How will I sequence my story?

Planning or "storyboarding" a digital story is essential
Write (type) a short script of your digital story.
Time it. You want to create a 2-3 minute digital story, so choose words carefully!
Print your script, and indicate where new photos should be shown. Indicate approximately how many seconds each image should be displayed next to the text on your script.

Once upon a time.... Every day... But one day... Because of that... Because of that... Because of that... Until finally... Ever since then... The moral of the story is..
Source: http://www.scholastic.com

Are there any video clips that I can record or include?
What music reflects the mood of my story?
What can I use legally?

Word processing software
Photo-Editing and Drawing program
Production software: PowerPoint, iMovie, Movie Maker, Photo Story
Other optional tools such as a digital camera, printer, and microphone

Sound Editing Software
Audacity
Online story web sites
Bubbleshare
VoiceThread

Find the visuals or take the pictures and edit
Where can I find images?
What images would I like to include?

Online search engines
Google Image Search
Flickr

A 2-3 minute digital story should use no more than 20-25 images.
To save images from an Internet website to your computer:
Make a new folder on your desktop and name it something like "story images" (right click on the desktop and choose NEW - FOLDER)
On a webpage displaying an image you want to view, right click the image and choose SAVE PICTURE AS.
Navigate to the desktop and into the folder you created in step 1.
Change the name of the image to something you can recognize (if desired.)
Save the image
Repeat steps 2-5 for additional images.

Add visual media to the narrative
Students add pictures, scanned images, etc. to support the narrative
Arrange images and video in timeline
Add titles
Students add opening title information, and maybe other titles (or subtitles) that appear during the story

MovieMaker includes many transitions and effects, from common transitions like fading in and out, to bold effects, like making words swirl on the screen

Match visuals with audio narration and music
Produce, revise, present, and distribute

Match visuals with audio and music
Add transitions and effects
MovieMaker includes many transitions and effects, from common transitions like fading in and out, to bold effects, like making words swirl on the screen

Export the final file
Students need to create a movie file that can be seen independently of the software they used to create it
Burn a DVD for distribution
Showing in-class, in-school, in-community
Web-casting, web-streaming

Peer review of drafts and final
Rubrics allow for complex information to be gathered based on needs of students

Language learning or technology for the sake of technology
Technical problems
Becomes competitive
Activity is not necessarily achievement
Measurable
Tied to objectives
Privacy and appropriateness issues
Copyright violations
Source: Dr. Arnie Abrams, http://www.arnieabrams.net

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748759
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/7.1/#1
http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/
http://www.digitalstories.org/
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/dstory/

Familiarize yourself with the technology before starting
Group students to make a story together
Keep narrations short and limit the number of pictures. Reading one page of narration for 10 pictures is equal to about 2 minutes-
Stories longer than 2-3 minutes may be too long
Work with your students in a computer classroom at least once a week
Have students critique your demo story
Use audio software that allows for editing to create sound files
Create a backup file for student work at the end of each class

Digitales: The Art of Digital Storytelling
http://www.digitales.us
Telling Stories: Using Drama & Multimedia with ESL Students
http://www.prel.org/eslstrategies/multimedia.html
http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/
http://www.wtvi.com/teks/ds/
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/presentations/case-for-ds/
http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2006/01/17/digital-story-telling-in-the-esl-classroom/
Links for Digital Storytelling
http://del.icio.us/wfryer/digitalstorytelling
Scholastic.com’s Introduction to Electronic Publishing
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748081http://chinnery.us/tesol/multimedia.shtm
http://www.absoluteppt.com/movie/ppt-to-youtube-moviemaker/index.html
Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org

Bull, G., & Kajder, S. (2004). Digital storytelling in the language arts classroom . Learning and Leading with Technology, 32 (4), 46-49.
Digital Storytelling Institute
Figa, E. (2004). The Virtualization of Stories and Storytelling. Storytelling Magazine . Vo. 16, No. 2, pp. 34 - 36.
Labbo, L., Eakle, A., Jonathan, A., & Montero, M. (2002). Digital language experience approach: Using digital photographs and software as a language experience approach innovation. Reading Online , 5 (8).
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Rance-Roney, J. (2008). Digital Storytelling for Language and Culture Learning. Essential Teacher , 5(1). pp. 29-31.
Richard-Amato, P.A. (2003). Storytelling, Role Play, and Drama. In P.A. Richard-Amato , Making it Happen . pp. 213-231.
Salpeter, J. (2005). Telling tales with technology . Technology and Learning, 25 (7), 18, 20, 22, 24.

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