NSDC 2008 Keynote

New students New media New literacies Transforming learning through digital creativity... jasonOhler.com

Screen + easel = screasel

Screasels everywhere!

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Screasels everywhere!

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

Literacy... Therefore, students need to be able to write whatever they read.

Words Collage jasonohler.com/beyondwords

Why literacy changes? • Read-only to write- possible time shrinking • Pervasive, cheap, appliance, furniture tools • Free stages, venues, art, story environments • web 2.0 - web 3.0

tEcosystem... then (1975) Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2006

tEcosystem... (Prensky) then (1975) Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2006

tEcosystem... (Prensky) then (1975) now (2002) Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2006

Web 1.0 READ •

Web 2.0 READ • WRITE •

Web 2.1 READ • WRITE • PAINT •

Web 3.0 READ • WRITE • PAINT • THINK

9 Dig lit action guidelines 1. Shift from text-centrism to new media collage 2. Value writing more than ever! 3. Adopt art as 4th, next R 4. Follow DAOW of literacy 5. Attitude is the aptitude

art the next R... MORE INFO: www.jasonOhler.com/nextr

why art next R now? • Multimedia collage is WWW Esperanto… • Assistive tech for the aesthetically challenged • Real work, real pay • ISTE on board • Copyright is real

9 Dig lit action guidelines 1. Shift from text-centrism to new media collage 2. Value writing more than ever! 3. Adopt art as next, 4th R 4. Follow DAOW of literacy 5. Attitude is the aptitude

DAOW of literacy...

9 Dig lit action guidelines 1. Shift from text-centrism to new media collage 2. Value writing more than ever! 3. Adopt art as next, 4th R 4. Follow DAOW of literacy 5. Attitude is the aptitude

9 Dig lit action guidelines 6. Practice private and social literacy 7. Develop literacy about digital tools 8. Fluency, not just literacy 9. Harness both report and story...embrace story!

Digital storytelling NEW MEDIA narrative

NEW MEDIA narrative

...work with what you have NEW MEDIA narrative

rule of 80/20... - costs, resources - the production hitting the wall last 80% production wall 1st 20% First 80% Last 20% - project completion -

...story first, tech second NEW MEDIA narrative

teachers important... • Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time • Deputize: guide on side not technician magician • Create learning communities • Quality, wisdom • Assessment, feedback

assessment... The“A for anything that moves” syndrome...

literacy innotivity, blending critique media ﬂuency research planning writing

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

story core... Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Story Transformation (growth)

story core in education Inquiry (tension) Discovery (resolution) Story Transformation (learning)

story core illustrated... new you... old you... Story Transformation (emergence, rebalancing)

transformation... where? Story Report Kieran Egan: where’s the story?

8 levels... 1. Physical/kinesthetic - strength, dexterity, realizing potential 2. Inner strength - courage, realizing potential 3. Emotional - maturity, realization 4. Moral - conscience, realizing “right” 5. Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization, revelation 6. Social - realizing responsibility 7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings 8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation

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

Watch...  Rolling ball (Bledsoe)  Hannah  Good dad  Life w/o air travel

Other stories...  Carl  Kenya  Alesia  La Oficina  Mike G  1/2 meets 1/3  Alli  Local history  King John  Artist within  Global warming

Traditionally... 1. Story idea 2. Storyboard, outline

My unfunded movie... Technical direction SHOT: side of bus, going to school ANGLE: wide shot MOVEMENT: side of bus, going to school follow bus AUDIO: going to school music (Born to Learn) Script, voice over narration: Teacher at door, “Once upon a time there were children so in greeting each child as they enter love with school they refused to leave when summer vacation came. ‘More math problems!’ they cried.”

Traditionally... 1. Story idea 2. Storyboard, outline

New approach... 1. Story idea 2. Story map ! 3. Storyboard, outline...maybe

Mapping vs. boarding... Emotional flow... vs. Flow of motion...

VPS, basic... Problem Solution Beginning Transformation? End Dillingham, 2003, modiﬁed Ohler, 2005

story core... Problem Solution (tension) (resolution) Story Transformation? (change, growth)

VPS, basic... Problem Solution Beginning Transformation? End Dillingham, 2003, modiﬁed Ohler, 2005

story core within... Problem Solution (tension) (resolution) Story Transformation? (change, growth)

start anywhere... Problem Solution Opportunities, In search of solutions to challenges, problem school or classroom scenarios at school? issues? Start here... Start here... Key growth, development you want to encourage? Start here... Beginning Transformation? End I rarely start here... Moral you want to feature? Start here...

arc, basic... Problem Solution Beginning Transformation? End

VPS, detailed... Middle (tension) (resolution) Problem Solution - question - ques. answered - opportunity - opportunity met - challenge (conflict, growth) - challenge met - goal - goal met “the call to Closure adventure...” Ordinary life... Transformation? “Life” resumes... Beginning End Dillingham, 2003, modiﬁed Ohler, 2005

On one sheet of paper... Dillingham, 2003, modiﬁed Ohler, 2005

Story From maps to media development

media dev process... Media Pre- Post- Performance, planning production Production production distribution • ideas • make media • finish creating, • mix, add • showing in list editing media transitions, class, • story titles community storming • gather raw components media (voice-over, • add credits • Web posting • story map music, pics, & citations components • local TV? • peer video, scans, pitching • begin editing etc.) • final review • local festival? raw media • final editing • research components • assemble • DVD? scripting media into • export final begin • notifying writing • final product product to others creating new readable • story- ones • formative review format boarding • re/telling

cake dev process... Cake Pre- Post- Performance, planning production Production production distribution • ideas • make • finish • frost • cut back • brain ingredients ingredients • decorate • notifying storming list • taste test • add candles others • research • gather, buy • assemble cake • give credits • share, ingredients distribute • peer • bake, let cool to who all pitching • begin helped • seconds preparing anyone? • get ingredients recipe, (dough, • take leftovers advice frosting, to work etc.) • share recipe

media dev process... Media Pre- Post- Performance, planning production Production production distribution • ideas • make media • finish creating, • mix, add • showing in list editing media transitions, class, • story titles community storming • gather raw components The “how to do just media (voice-over, • add credits • Web posting • story map music, pics, & citations components • local TV? • peer video, scans, pitching • begin editing etc.) • final review • local festival? about anything” process • research scripting raw media components • assemble begin media into • final editing • export final • DVD? • notifying writing • final product product to others creating new readable • story- ones • formative review format boarding • re/telling

story creation process... 1. Plan, map, pitch storyboard story 2. Write 1-2 pages 3. Speak/Record Create media 4. Add/reserve title page list, get media 5. Add pics 6. Add citations 7. Add music Collect citations as you go 8. Add transitions

Directions... ✦ Gaming, machinima ✦ Second life, virtual galaxies ✦ Virtual, immersive, multisensory realities ✦ Social green rooms ✦ Story… across content, generations, cultures

What’s the big picture?

D an g er ?

Two kinds of thinking... + STORY CRITICAL

AIM! Don’t rule by concern - Turn concerns into goals…

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

forms, grammar... Visually differentiated text (VDT) 5B + 1. b 2. b 3. b 4. b 5. b Essay form VDT form

C aut ions? Photo by clay good

cyber unsuitability

digital doctoring

Digital Makeup Digital makeup - video conferencing

Digital Makeup Digital makeup - video conferencing - JAM, shaving filters - feigned attention, canned laughter How does it work?

Digital makeup before

Digital makeup after

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

NSDC 2008 Keynote

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