Working on It

1. Digital Stories
“Giving Students a Voice”
Matt Stagliano
Camden County Technical Schools
Matthewstagliano@gmail.com
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2. 7 Principles for Crafting Digital Stories
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Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Voice
Sounds
Pacing
Economy

3. Tools for Creating Digital Stories
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*Movie Maker (PC)
*IMovie (Mac)
Jay Cut:http://jaycut.com/
Voice Thread:http://voicethread.com/
Dfilm:http://www.dfilm.com/moviemaker/index.h
tml
Xtranormal:http://www.xtranormal.com/index
Goanimate: http://goanimate.com/

4. Examples of Digital Stories
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• The Story behind Stories
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqp22mB9cSk
• The Evolution of American Video Game
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnkgz9EHz_o
• Paderewski and Summarizing
– http://www.youtube.com/user/doconnor1354#p/a/u/0/jpLdPT5iFkU
• The Learning Path
– http://www.youtube.com/user/jzeck1#p/u/0/t4l-JZpoUA8

5. The Digital Story and your classroom
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English
Math (?)
History/Social Studies
Sciences
Art/Music
World Languages
Career Areas
Others

6. Steps I Find Useful
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Decide on a topic of study
Write Script/Story board
- Conference with teacher
Student tries out tools; selects what works best
for him or her
Gather/Create/Take pictures, sounds, effects
that are relevant to story
- Conference with teacher
Put it all together, add voice and dramatic
question
Create and present Digital Story

7. Sources and Further Readings
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• http://faculty.coe.uh.edu/brobin/homepage/Education
al-Uses-DS.pdf
• http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/multilevel-
approach.pdf
• http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
• http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/7elements.html
• http://www.digitalstoryteller.org/docs/languagearts.ht
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• http://www.storycenter.org/stories/index.php?cat=3