This document discusses digital storytelling and related topics. It provides several quotes from experts on how digital media and storytelling skills are important literacy skills. It also summarizes the steps involved in creating a digital story, including writing a proposal, researching, developing a script, storyboarding, gathering audio/video, assembling the story, sharing it, and getting feedback. Finally, it briefly introduces topics like podcasting, iTunes U, and using Creative Commons licensing.

1. Digital Storytelling
EduCon 2.2
Samantha Morra
Montclair, NJ
http://www.samanthamorra.com
Twitter: sammorra

2. Digital Storytelling
“A whole new Web is emerging from the
wilds of cyberspace.
It's no longer all about idly surfing and
passively reading, listening, or watching.
It's about doing: sharing, socializing,
collaborating, and, most of all, creating.”
Hof, Robert. "It's A Whole New Web." BusinessWeek - Business News, Stock Market &
Financial Advice. 26 Sep. 2005.
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952401.htm>.

3. Digital Storytelling
“ Movies, advertisements,
and all other visual media
are tools teachers need to use
and media we must master
if we are to maintain
our credibility in the coming years.”
Jim Burke, The English Teacher’s Companion

4. Digital Storytelling
"We find ourselves living during
the greatest communication revolution
in history, where image-dominant literacies
of screen, animation, technology,
video game, and picture
are starting to share the stage with the
traditional print-text literacies.”
Kathleen Monnin, Assistant Professor of Literacy at the University of North Florida

5. Digital Storytelling
“We live in a world of moving images.
To participate fully in our society and its culture
means to be as confident
in the use and understanding of moving images
as of the printed word.
Both are essential aspects of literacy in the
twenty-first century.”
Source: Film: 21st Century Literacy

6. Digital Storytelling
"If video is how we are
communicating and persuading
in this new century,
why aren't more students
writing screenplays
as part of their schoolwork?"
Heidi Hayes Jacobs

7. Digital Storytelling
“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

8. Digital Storytelling
Digital Authoring is
active,
dynamic,
community building,
and radically democratic.

9. Blueberries
The Blackboard and the Bottom Line -Larry Cuban

10. Digital Storytelling
Good Digital Stories
Are personal
Begin with the story/script
Are concise
Use readily-available source materials
Include universal story elements
Involve collaboration

11. Digital Storytelling
Skills that Creating a Digital Story Covers
Writing Skills
Construct a story
Sequence and Summarize
Edit and Proofread
Use descriptive words
Use words to create imagery
Understand Copyright

12. Digital Storytelling
Skills that Creating a Digital Story Covers
Speaking and Visual Skills
Show expression and enunciation
Learn projecting and phrasing
Communicate ideas
Engage the audience
Match images with voice
Match music with script

13. Digital Storytelling
Skills that Creating a Digital Story Covers
Technical Skills
Use digital images
Create digital images
Create and Record voice and music

14. Digital Storytelling
Skills that Creating a Digital Story Covers
Personal Development Skills
Media Literacy
Enhance self-confidence
Build community
Establish observational skills
Develop social skills

15. Digital Storytelling
What do you need to get started?
Staff and Community
Administrative Support
Parental Support
Teachers willing to take risks
Technical
Staff Development
RAM
Storage space
Microphones
Students Headphones
Guidelines for construction
Assessment tools

16. Digital Storytelling: Step by Step
Step One:
Write a Proposal
Step Two:
Research
Step Three:
Develop a Script
Step Four:
Storyboard
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio andVideo Content
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

17. iTunes-The Basics
iTunes is an application for both Mac and PC
iTunes allows you listen to Audio and watch video content
from the web
It is free and can be downloaded at
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

18. What is Podcasting
Podcasting is a blend of the words iPod and
broadcast
The term podcast implies the ability to deliver
programs like other broadcast media but it has some
significant differences and advantages

19. Podcasts-The Basics
Advantages of Podcasting
Podcasts can be downloaded and viewed
anytime and anywhere
Podcasts can be subscribed to and
automatically downloaded
Anyone can create a podcast

20. iTunes U-The Basics
iTunes U launched May 30, 2007
iTunes U puts the power of the iTunes Store to work for
colleges and universities, so users can easily search,
download, and play course content just like they do music,
movies, and TV shows.
"Apple Education iTunesU Overview." Apple. 15 Sep. 2008 <www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html>.

21. Podcasts in Education
Podcasts in Education
Learning can take place anytime and anywhere
Information is presented in a way that reflects
the multimedia world in which our students
live
Playback

22. iTunes U K12
iTunes U K12 launched June 20, 2008
“iTunes K-12 has the potential to be as varied and useful as
iTunes U proper.”
Pinchefsky, Carol. "iTunes K-12 Section Has Some Growing Up to Do."

23. New Jersey’s Montclair Public
Schools
This school system has a large amount of student-
produced podcasts, many of them so comprehensive
that students all over the world will be tempted to crib
the information they provide. “Suffrage” is a brief
slideshow presentation about the history of the 19th
Amendment, which was very well-done. “Girls--Self
Image” video podcast teaches girls that they can all be
beautiful.

24. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One:
Write a Proposal
Step Two:
Research Start to think about our next project. You will choose a
topic and write a proposal.
Step Three:
Develop a Script
For a nonfiction topic include :
Step Four: The topic
Storyboard 5 interesting things about the topic
Why it interests you.
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and For a fiction topic include:
Video Content Who the story is about
Step Six: What the story is about
Put It All Together
For other types of writing, like poems:
Step Seven: What will it be about
Share Start it and then we will discuss it.
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

25. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Two:
Write a Proposal Research
Research from a variety of sources
Step Three:
Develop a Script Validate your sources
Step Four:
Storyboard Organize your research
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and
Video Content
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

26. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Three:
Write a Proposal Develop a Script
Step Two:
Research Pull together your research
Find your voice
Step Four:
Storyboard Write!
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and
Video Content
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

27. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Four:
Write a Proposal Storyboard
Step Two:
Research Map out your script
Step Three:
Develop a Script
Think of the images you will need
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and
Video Content
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

28. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Five:
Write a Proposal Gather/Create Audio and Video Content
Step Two:
Research Audio
Step Three: GarageBand (Mac)
Develop a Script Audacity
Step Four: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Storyboard Mixcraft
http://www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/index.htm
Step Six: Downloads
Put It All Together Soundsnap
http://www.soundsnap.com/
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

29. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Five:
Write a Proposal Gather/Create Audio and Video Content
Step Two: Video/Images
Research
Create you own
Step Three:
Develop a Script
Step Four:
Use words
Storyboard
Capture from a camera
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Public Domain/Wikipedia/
Creative Commons
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

30. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Six:
Write a Proposal Put It All Together
Step Two:
Research
Step Three: Mac
Develop a Script
iMovie
Step Four:
Storyboard GarageBand
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and PC
Video Content
Moviemaker
Step Seven:
Share
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

31. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Seven:
Write a Proposal Share
Step Two:
Research
Step Three:
“Good stress”
Develop a Script
Step Four: School website
Storyboard
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and YouTube
Video Content
Step Six:
Put It All Together
Step Eight:
Feedback and Reflect

32. Digital Authoring: Step by Step
Step One: Step Eight:
Write a Proposal Feedback and Reflect
Step Two:
Research
Step Three:
Assess throughout the process
Develop a Script
Step Four: Use a rubric
Storyboard www.rubistar.4teachers.org/
Step Five:
Gather/Create Audio and
Video Content
Give students
Step Six: opportunity for reflection
Put It All Together
Step Seven:
Share

33. Creative Commons

34. Creative Commons