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digital storytelling
miguel guhlin
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checklist
why storytelling?
process
technology
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if people aren’t taught the
language of sound and
images, shouldn’t they be
considered as illiterate as
if they left college without
being able to read or
write?
-George Lucas

when our lives are brimming
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with information,
it’s not enough to marshal an
effective argument. (Dan Pink)

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“stories--that’s how people
make sense of what’s
happening to them...they
tell stories about
themselves.”
(from Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind)
• “Spooky Texas Tales”
• by Tim Tingle and Doc Moore

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Selfhood derives from the sense that one
can initiate and carry out activities on
one's own. Even the simplest narratives
are built around an agent-self as a
protagonist...
Personhood implicates narrative.
--Jerome Bruner

• imagining new perspectives....
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process
digital storytelling
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point of view
step 1: writing a narrative
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central theme
step 1: writing a narrative
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250 words
step 2: script
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step 3: storyboard
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describing images to match script

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step 4: locating media
•Creative Commons Search
http://search.creativecommons.org
•More online at http://mguhlin.net/share in
the Digital Storytelling Resources section
images from web, personal collections

step 5: create
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step 6: share
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digital poetry
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The problems it caused were not with the
children but with teachers, who were
skeptical of what I could accomplish, and
of administrators who didn't want to let
me try.
As soon as I did manage to get into a
school, the children were won over; and,
in every case, teachers and
administrators were themselves won over
by what the children wrote.
--Kenneth Koch

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digital poetry
• "Imagine you are talking to a mysterious and beautiful creature and you
can speak its secret language, and you can ask it anything you want."
The poetry idea, as I've said, was to give the students a way to
experience, while writing, some of the main ideas and feelings in the
poem we were studying. . . like William Blake’s Tiger.

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about the technology
• MS PhotoStory
• VoiceThread.com web site
• StoryBeyond.com
• Format Factory (formatoz.com)
• Audacity for sound editing if needed
• Edublogs.tv for publishing stories online
• Web sites for images