Digital StorytellingWorkshop Wiki, including a link to session materials: http://2020nexus.pbworks.comPresenter: Suzanne Shanks, Digital Technology Teacher, Mann Middle SchoolEmail: LSSHANKS@HOTMAIL.COMDistrict 11 I.D.: Lynda Shanks

We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narrativeswe convey to others and tell to ourselves.Daniel Pink,A Whole New Mind

Digital StorytellingQuestions This Session Will Answer:What is digital storytelling ?What are some examples of digital stories?How can digital storytelling be used in education?What are the justifications for doing so?What is the process of creating a digital story?Where we find more resources, multimedia, software, web applications, and copyright guidelines?Workshop Wiki, including a link to session materials: http://2020nexus.pbworks.comPresenter: Suzanne Shanks, Digital Technology Teacher, Mann Middle SchoolEmail: LSSHANKS@HOTMAIL.COMDistrict 11 ID: Lynda S. Shanks

How do you write a digital story?Almost exactly like you’d write a story on paper!Relax – You can do this.

What is Digital Storytelling?Ordinary people using new digital tools to tell their own real-life stories. Students do it to learn information literacy and multimedia tools.Digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, sometimes video clips and/or music. They vary in length, but are typically between two and five minutes. Topics: tell a personal tale, teach something, retell historical events, give some news, explain your beliefs, write about your own community or values, etc. etc. etc.

Examples of Digital Storytellinghttp://2020nexus.pbworks.comhttp://www.d11.org/mann/computerliteracy/digital_stories_8.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/shezam1381

Can You Say “Audience”?

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Remind your students that the planning and writing portions of the project are the most important. There is no need to do anything digitally until the planning and writing processes are complete, so if you have limited access to computers this will help you.

After a digital story is shared, it should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles of technology. Bernajean Porter -Sharing Stories that Need to Be Told

Writing Process

Topics for Digital StorytellingPersonal stories about: family, life events, past, feelings, beliefs, friendships.Teach how to do something.Retell historical eventsReport on interesting newsSomething you’ve learnedYour original poetryBiography of someone elseTell about a trip/travelsPersuade othersTell about a character in a book.Tell about a loved one who diedAccomplishmentsAdventuresFavorite placeYour hobbyYour sportYour hero

Personal stories about:

Teach how to do something.

Retell historical events

Report on interesting news

Something you’ve learned

Your original poetry

Biography of someone else

Tell about a trip/travels

Persuade others

Tell about a character in a book.

Tell about a loved one who died

Accomplishments

Adventures

Favorite place

Your hobby

Your sport

Your hero

6/19/2009copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com14Every story has these elements.

"The script is usually a distillation of the essential components of the narrative story. As the digital story is created, the script forms the foundation, and the various multimedia elements serve to rebuild the story. For example, the narrative may be between three or four typed pages. The script resulting from this narrative may be about a page in length. Producing the digital story from the script ensures that the multimedia elements convey and contribute meaning to the story, rather than being (bells and whistles) included to make the story more “interesting.” http://www.jakesonline.orgg/dstory_ice.pdf You could do these activities on paper or digitally

One easy way for students to do a script is to:fold a regular sheet of notebook paper in half length wise (hot dog)On the left half of the sheet write their script. The right hand side can be used for notes or sketches of the scene. A full left side of the paper equates roughly to one minute of spoken voice in the story.

EasyPeasy!

This is not your grandfather’s classroom anymore.(If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we’ll keep getting what we’ve always gotten.)

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You will want to use:still-frame imageryPerhaps videoscanned imagesphotographs from personal collectionsPictures from their cell phones "We have discouraged the inclusion of video clips as video adds another layer of complexity to the process, both in the recording, rendering (making the final movie) and it increases the memory storage requirements greatly." Adapted from David Jakes http://www.jakesonline.org/dstory_ice.pdf For more about raw multimedia components, visit these pages:Working With VideoWorking With Digital ImagesWorking With AudioThe Storage Locker

still-frame imagery

Perhaps video

scanned images

photographs from personal collections

Pictures from their cell phones

Build and Edit Movie and Sounds. The most popular software for digital storytelling are far and away PhotoStory3, Movie Maker, and Audacity. You can also create, fine-tune and publish your movie in one place with more and more internet sites every day. Here are a few:AnimotoVoiceThreadDigitalStorytellerBubbleShareJumpCutEyeSpotViddlerMotionboxSlideshareFlickr For more about manipulating multimedia components, visit these pages: Working With VideoWorking With Digital ImagesWorking With AudioThe Storage Locker

SHARE / PUBLISHYou Are Here

Publish or Share.The best part about digital storytelling is sharing with others. You can download your movies to a cd, dvd, or flash drive when you are finished. To get a bigger audience you can also post it on your own wiki, blog, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, or ThinkQuest web siteVoiceThread (What is a Voice Thread?)DigitalStorytellerBubbleShareJumpCutEyeSpotViddlerMotionboxSlideshareFlickrdotSUB Next Visa for LearningTeacherTubeUthTV.comBlip.TVYouTubeGlogsterMixbookAllan Levine shows 50 different ways of publishing (he uses the same story for all 50!) http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/Dominoe+50+Ways

Assessment. Depending on the nature of the project, a digital story can be an effective way for the students to illustrate their understanding of a subject. As such, it can be a valuable form of performance assessment. However, not all stories lend themselves to that.There are tons of rubrics on my wiki and by searching in Google.

Workshop Wiki, including a link to session materials: http://2020nexus.pbworks.comEmail: LSSHANKS@HOTMAIL.COM(District 11 ID: Lynda S. Shanks)