Nb March 2008

Digital storytelling & new media narrative (www.jasonOhler.com/beyondwords) New Brunswick, March 2008

MATERIALS subTechst

Screasels everywhere!

http://www.bestdamntech.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/iphone1.jpg

Easely done!

Consuming and producing the media forms of the day, whatever they are. Literacy…

Consuming and producing the media forms of the day, whatever they are. Therefore, kids need to be able to write whatever they read. Literacy…

Words Collage jasonohler.com/beyondwords

WEB HISTORY T T Web 1.0 library, store.. many clients few providers Web 2.0 collaborative commons… clients, providers merge… Web 2.1 Web 2.0 goes collage Web 3.0 Web 2.1 gets intelligent

T T WEB HISTORY Web 1.0 library, store.. many clients few providers Web 2.0 collaborative commons… clients, providers merge… Web 2.1 Web 2.0 goes collage Web 3.0 Web 2.1 gets intelligent

WEB HISTORY Web 1.0 T T library, store.. many clients few providers Web 2.0 collaborative commons… clients, providers merge… Web 2.1 Web 2.0 goes collage Web 3.0 Web 2.1 gets intelligent

Read-only to write-possible time shrinking

Pervasive, cheap tools

Furniturization of tools

Free stage, venues, art, story environments

Why literacy changes?

Digital native info landscape… Then…

Digital native info landscape… (Prensky) Then… Now…

Text-centrism yields to new media collage

Art is the 4th R

Follow DAOW of literacy

Media literacy must become fluency

Story is the resonant info structure

5 “Beyond essays” mantras…

Art is the 4th R

www.jasonohler.com/fourthr

Why art the Next R now?

Multimedia collage is WWW Esperanto…

Assistive tech for the aesthetically challenged

Real work, real pay

ISTE on board

Copyright is real

Real work, real pay

ISTE on board

Copyright is real

Real work, real pay

ISTE on board

Copyright is real

Real work, real pay

ISTE on board

Copyright is real

Real work, real pay

ISTE on board

Copyright is real

Creator - make, perform your own art, media

Manager - select, mash up, specify, subcontract

Producer - orchestrate direct, pull it all together

How art the Next R?

Art is the Next R

DAOW of literacy…

DAOWists:

“ Mediasts”

Youtubers

Podcasters

Bloggers

Digital storytellers

PowerPointers

Art is the Next R

Media Literacy 1.0 Media Literacy 1.0 Media Literacy 1.0

Identify, evaluate and apply media persuasion

Engage, persuade and inform

Consume critically, produce effectively

Media fluency adds sophistication

New Media literacy 2.0

Identify, evaluate and apply media persuasion

Engage, persuade and inform

Consume critically, produce effectively

Media fluency adds sophistication

New Media literacy 2.0

Art is the Next R

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling ?

High end, lengthy media production What’s digital storytelling about?

What’s digital storytelling about?

Adapting to whatever time, tools are available

Using what you have

Non-techies taking the next step

Tech serving story

Bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

Being hero of own, life learning story…

Tech serving story

Bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

Being hero of own, life learning story…

Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time

Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

Create learning communities

Quality, wisdom

Assessment, feedback

Teacher more important now…

Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time

Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

Create learning communities

Quality, wisdom

Assessment, feedback

Assessment Why isn’t there more? Not comfortable assessing new media… (Media grammar…)

Assignment Metaphor Most important question: Where on the continuum does your assignment fall?

storyboards, research, story maps, scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments- writing “under the radar”

A digital story is:

Just tip of iceberg

Portfolio unto itself

Assessment

William Tell and the Young Girl Who Could Fix Computers…” “

Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Transformation Story Core Story

(learning) Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Transformation Applied to learning Story Inquiry Discovery

Nature of transformation?

Dissonance, story vs. report

Kieran Egan

Where’s the story?

Trans-formation

8 Levels of character transformation…

Physical/kinesthetic - strength, dexterity, realizing potential

Inner strength - courage, realizing potential

Emotional - maturity, realization

Moral - conscience, realizing “right”

Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization, revelation

Social - realizing responsibility

Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization, revelation

7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation

Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization , revelation

7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation

Bloom’s taxonomy as transformation… Character knows, remembers, describes something… Knowledge #1 Character explains, interprets, predicts something… Comprehension #2 Character discovers, constructs or changes something; applies understanding to a new situation… Application #3 Character deconstructs a situation, distinguishes among options, plans or organizes something, compares and contrasts different things… Analysis #4 Character pieces together parts to form new understanding of situation… Synthesis #5 Character assesses situation, critiques and/or defends idea, person; evaluates a situation in order to respond to it… Evaluation #6 Explanation Kind Level

:

Rolling ball

Hannah

Good dad

Life w/o air travel

Putting story core to work: Story mapping

Traditional story planning process 1. Get a story idea 2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Traditional story boarding Angle: Shot: Movement: Audio: Angle: Shot: Movement: Audio: Technical direction Technical direction

Angle: wide Shot: side of bus, going to school Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to Learn) Angle: wide, zoom in Shot: front of school, students entering Movement: stationary Audio: music, cont. Technical direction None - ambient happy school bus noise Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter Story board for “We Won’t Leave School” Technical direction

http://www.csupomona.edu/~wcweber/325/storybd.htm Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter Script, voice over narration: “ Once upon a time there were children so in love with school they refused to leave when summer vacation came. They demanded to keep learning. ‘ More math problems!’ they cried.” None - voice over with ambient happy school, bus noise Story board for “We Won’t Leave School” Angle: wide Shot: side of bus, going to school Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to Learn) Technical direction

Traditional story planning process 1. Get a story idea 2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Traditional story planning process 1. Get a story idea NO! 2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

New story planning process 1. Get a story idea 3. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Key concept: Story mapping vs. boarding… the flow of emotion… … vs. the flow of motion…

VPS + transformation = quest

Story Core

Story Core within the story map

Start your story anywhere…

From maps to media development process…

Pre-production Production Post-production Performance, distribution

make media list

gather raw media components

begin editing raw media components

begin creating new ones

finish creating, editing media components (voice-over, music, pics, video, scans, etc.)

assemble media into final product

formative review

mix, add transitions, titles

add credits & citations

final review

final editing

export final product to readable format

showing in class, community

Web posting

local TV?

local festival?

DVD?

notifying others

- MEDIA PRODUCTION PROCESS - Story planning

ideas

story storming

story map

peer pitching

research scripting writing

story-boarding

re/telling

make ingredients list

gather, buy ingredients

begin making cake components

frost

decorate

add candles

credits, citations for those who helped

cut the cake

distribute, share

seconds anyone?

take leftovers to work

share recipe

ideas

brain-storm

decide on cake

research

get recipe, advice

finish components (dough, frosting, etc.)

taste test

assemble cake into final product

bake, let stand, cool

Pre-production Production Post-production Performance, distribution - CAKE PRODUCTION PROCESS - Cake planning

Pre-production Production Post-production Performance, distribution The “how to do just about anything” process… - MEDIA PRODUCTION PROCESS - Story planning

Pre-production Production Post-production Performance, distribution

make media list

gather raw media components

begin editing raw media components

begin creating new ones

finish creating, editing media components (voice-over, music, pics, video, scans, etc.)

assemble media into final product

formative review

mix, add transitions, titles

add credits & citations

final review

final editing

export final product to readable format

showing in class, community

Web posting

local TV?

local festival?

DVD?

notifying others

- MEDIA PRODUCTION PROCESS - Story planning

ideas

story storming

story map

peer pitching

research scripting writing

story-boarding

re/telling

Create media list, get media

Plan, map, storyboard story

Write

Speak/Record

Add pics

Add citations

Add titles

Add music

Add transitions

New media creation process Many ways to collect citations

Assessment

Media grammar

Power of music

Copyright follow up- need for original material

Story outlives technology

Kids mysteriously “write” stories

Take aways

Wrap-up

Narrative development process… self-assessment through listening

Any ideas at all…

Essentials:

time

events

characters

trans..

Story or research “box”

Many maps…

End Aristotle - Story Map/Diagram complication peripeteia Aristotle (reversal of fortune) tying of the knot untying anagnorisis (transformation, realization)

- - Middle - -

(denouement) Beginning From THE POETICS by Aristotle

Aristotle (simplified)

The arc

- - Middle - -

End Beginning TRANSFORMATION

Freytag’s story pyramid ("untying the knot”) From DIE TECHNIK DES DRAMAS by Freytag, 1863 Inciting incident Resolution

Joseph Campbell call to adventure tests challenges problems rescue resolution resurrection moral, lessons learned, changed habits threshold of adventure transformation helpers flight From HERO HAS A THOUSAND FACES by Campbell

Breneman Minor climaxes Quick ending after climax From ONCE UPON A TIME - A STORYTELLING BOOK by Breneman and Breneman

McKee From STORY by McKee Bringing life back into balance…watch “Adaptation”…

Treasure map Less structure, more adaptable… begin here or evolve into this approach…? reversal smaller conflict relatively more significant conflict steep resolution medium gradual rise to adventure sharp change smoother change start here… end here…

Adapt-a-map by Michael Christenson, Media Literacy class, 2005

Kieran Egan’s Binary Opposites story affectively engage: decide, resolve, mediate through story creation cognitively engage: learn through research, effective pedagogies ‘… kids understand story…’ evaluation From TEACHING AS STORYTELLING by Egan

Kieran Egan’s Binary Opposites 1. Identifying importance: - What is most important about this topic? Why should it matter to children? - What is affectively engaging about it? 2. Finding binary opposites: - What powerful binary opposites best catch the importance of the topic? 3. Organizing content into story form: - What content most dramatically embodies access to the topic? - What content best articulates the topic into a developing story form? 4. Conclusion: - What’s best way of resolving dramatic conflict inherent in the binary opposites? - What degree of mediation of those opposites is appropriate to ask? 5. Evaluation: - How can one know whether the topic has been understood, its importance grasped and the content learned? From TEACHING AS STORYTELLING by Egan

Story spine by Kenn Adams by Adams

The moral of this story is…

Ever since then…

The resolution:

Until finally…

The climax:

Because of that…

Because of that…

Because of that…

The consequences:

But one day…

The catalyst:

Every day…

Once upon a time…

The platform

Impacts on educational leadership?

What’s the big picture?

Danger ?

Two kinds of thinking STORY CRITICAL +

Turn concerns into goals… Don’t rule by concern…

Media forms, grammar for everyday communication

Youtube Google docs Slideshare ? Postings (VDT) Podcasting Blogfolio Other ways of publishing…

Visually differentiated text (VDT) … essay form … VDT form

presentations, with media

voice-over narrations

video memos

digital stories

mini-movies

portfolios (blogs)

Everyday media forms…

bumping, squinting

essay or poem?

pictures

audio, music

editing, transitions

organization, story

Media grammar for non-techies…

School train

Cautions? Photo by clay good

modern malady… Cyber unsuitability

modern solution… Digital doctoring

Modern solution digital doctoring

Digital Makeup Digital Makeup

video conferencing

video conferencing

appearance, JAM shaving filters

feigned attention, canned laughter

video conferencing

appearance, JAM shaving filters

feigned attention, canned laughter

How does it work?

30th reunion before Digital Makeup

Digital Makeup 30th reunion after

Digital Makeup Got? money

More info @: jasonohler.com/dstbook

Go tell your story! www.jasonOhler.com Thank you…

Works, pictures, diagrams and web resources referenced in presentations are identified in the following slides.

Those referenced in black are those more often used in the “Digital Storytelling” presentation. Those referenced in red are those more often used in the “Then What?” presentation. Those referenced in green are those more often used in the “Teachies are from Venus, Techies are from Mars” presentation. However, presentations are always in a state of evolution, and any resource may appear in any presentation.

Every effort has been made to identify sources, obtain permission, provide compensation when required, and respect copyright.

You are free to use the content in this presentation for non-commercial, in-house, informal purposes. Please include this “works cited” section if you do.

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Works cited

Diagrams, books cited Bloom, Benjamin, and David Krathwohl. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals . New York: Longmans, Green, 1956. Breneman, Lucille, and Bren Breneman. Once Upon a Time - A Storytelling Handbook . Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1983. Brown, John Seely, Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh, and Laurence Prusak. Storytelling in Organizations . Oxford: Heinemann, 2005. Campbell, Joseph, and Krathwohl. The Hero with a Thousand Faces . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Denning, Stephen. The Springboard - How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations . Oxford: Heinemann, 2001. Dillingham, Brett. "Performance Literacy." The Reading Teacher . Sept. 2005: 72-75. Egan, Kiernan, and . Teaching as Story Telling. Chicago: Chicago Press, 1989. Freytag. Die Technik des Dramas (Technique of Drama ). 1863. Goodman, Steven. Teaching Youth Media . New York: Teacher's College Press, 2003. Works cited

Diagrams, books cited, continued… Kay, A. (1996). “Revealing the elephant: The use and misuse of computers in education.” Sequence , 31 (4), 1-2. Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling Cookbook and Traveling Companion . 3 ed. Berkeley: Digital Diner Press, 2003. McKee, John. Story- Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting . New York: HarperCollins, 1997. McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man . New York: McGraw-Hill. MomaDay, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn . New York: HarperCollins, 1969. Nueroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: New York: Laura Geringer, 1985. Porter, Bernajean. Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories . Sedalia: Porter Publications, 2004. Simmons, Annette. The Story Factor . Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1997. Tarantino, Quentin. Pulp Fiction . 1994. Telford, Kenneth. Aristotle Poetics, Translation and Analysis . Chicago: Regenery, 1970. Theodosakis, Nikos. Director in the Classroom . San Diego: Tech4Learning Publishing, 2001. Toelken, Barre. "The Icebergs of Folktale: Misconception, Misuse, Abuse." Who Says? Essays on Pivotal Issues in Contemporary Storytelling . Ed. Carol Birch. Little Rock: August House, 1996. 35-63. Works cited, cont.

Resources cited

Graphics, photos, from Clipart.com (thru an annual fee):

Alarm clock: 21767547-alarmClock.jpg

Angry lady: fear-anger-lady-19066489.jpg

Art the artitst: peck048j.thb.jpg

Baby with luminescent computer: 32354173babyComputer.jpg

Ball and chain: BallAndChain-1835320.jpg

Brainstorming: sy17981.thb.brainstorm.jpg

Comedy-tragedy-masks: 21724700drama.thb.jpg

Committee: 2359488committee.jpg

Virtual Community: g0166537.thb-virtual-community.jpg

Computer director: 20856935director.jpg

Credo: crctr573.thb.oldman.jpg

Crowd: 2541410.crowd.jpg

Digital camera (part of media collage in bubble): 20076414digital.jpg

Dragon on knight’s chest: 14697971dragon.jpg

Fear cartoon: 14753071-fear.jpg

GarageSale-Stuff: 1722608.garage.sale5.jpg

Guy with idea light bulb: 3049773-idea.jpg

Guy balancing computers: 20207046.thb-balance.jpg

Hammerguy: Microsoft stock clip art

Hearts arguing; 20436442-heartsArguing.jpg

Kid in movie theater: 19016181theater.jpg

Kid painting: kid-painting-20160430.gif

Kid thinking 30899756kidThinking.thb.jpg

Kid with A+ paper: 22316907evaluation.thb.jpg

Resources, cont.

Graphics, photos, from Clipart.com (thru an annual fee):

Kid with magnifying glass: 19121841evaluation2.jpg.

Kids behind Edwina: 4144104.happy.children.jpg.

Kim: 3242484.cyber-chick3.jpg; composite, all elments unknown.

Knight: 19884228knight.jpg.

Looking For: 21031472lookingFor.jpg.

Man crawling: 00a.thm.man.crawling.gif.

Man and son: 1840568.father.and.son.jpg.

Man Hitting computer: 14727973.hitting.computer.jpg.

Mind, Idea, lightbulb: 3049773-idea.jpg.

Mr. Big: weath031.thb.mr.big.jpg.

Mr. Big’s lawn chair: 1943880.lawn.chair.jpg.

Ouch: Ouch-22029918.jpgstairs.jpg.

Puppet stage: punchnjudy-22091633.gif.

School bus: 21071624-schoolBus.jpg.

Storyteller to child in bed, g0165059.thb.

Sunglasses on kid: 21793429sunglasses.jpg.

Sunglasses: 20677551sunglasses.jpg.

Sunset (Arizona Magazine): 1116818.sunset.jpg.

Teacher in purple jacket; file name unknown.

Theater audience: 19016493theaterAudience.jpg.

Willamina: wrkwm069.thb.preacher.woman-1.jpg.

William on ledge of objectivity: 741289.mr.big.ledge.jpg.

Woman storyteller: g0165059.thb.storytelling.jpg.

Yin-yang-3074759.jpg.

Resources, cont.

Graphics, photos, from sources other than Clipart.com:

4Ts lady: source unknown.

Brad Pitt photo: int001y.jpg; site unknown.

Computer heads, man & woman: source unknown.

Cow lips: http://212.43.196.62/pix/pix_ tn / CowLips .jpg

Crazy man: crazy.jpg; source unknown.

Edwina Tech: basic-info-librarians.gif; origin unknown.

Fourth R on easel - citation lost.

Hannah, with permission from parents.

Oil can man: source unknown.

Picture of Don King/Howard Dean on stage before a crowd, from Chris Bischoff (chris@clbischoff.com).

Savoonga kids (with permission from parents), 1997.

Sticking tongue out (baby)- source unknown.

Then What? cover, by Jeri Smith, 2001.

Resources, cont.

Graphics, photos, from other sources other than Clipart.com:

Totem Pole picture by Dodge, Jack and Mary. "picture of Mary at totem pole ." Travel: Americas: US: Alaska, Kenai Fjords. June 2004. jackandmaryetc.com. 07 Apr. 2006. <http://jackmaryetc.com/Travel/US/Alaska/Alaska1.htm>.

Wearing computer: Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 11, November, 1998 WearComp as a new framework for Intelligent Signal Processing Steve Mann, 1998 (found at http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wearcam.org/wearcomp4small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wearcam.org/hi/&h=1024&w=700&sz=68&tbnid=vX8sgpcVWZtccM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=102&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwearcomp%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG).

Brad Pitt photo… from fan website long ago. Trail to the photo is lost.

Web sources cited

Copyright source info from web

Harper, Georgia. "Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia." Multimedia Fair Use Guideline (CCUMU). University of Texas General Counsel Office. 04 Apr. 2006 < http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm#5 >.

"Copyright Basics." Copyright Kids!. Copyright Kids. 04 Apr. 2006 < http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm >.

"Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." OWL at Purdue University: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format. Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University. 03 Apr. 2006 < http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html >.