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Digital storytelling
1. Digital Storytelling:
From the Written
Essay to the Online
Story
Patricia Hoefler
Empire State College
2. Digital Storytelling is a
unique, creative way to craft
stories.
It can help with the actual art of storytelling
- the how, as in how to tell a story
It can be the actual narrative
It can give background history to an event
3. What Students Gain from Digital
Storytelling
According to the book Interactive
Digitales, the Art of Telling communication
Digital Stories, students
Interpersonal skills
were able to gain effective
communication skills and Technology literacy
experience in specific Basic and visual
areas that teachers felt literacy
were important:
Curiosity, creativity, an
d risk-taking
Porter, Bernajean, Digitales, the Art of Telling Digital Stories, Bjpconsulting, 2005, Page 63.
4. Why Use Technology to Tell
Stories?
Telling stories in this way (digitally), students learn to
storyboard ideas, craft narratives, and do research.
“Students develop enhanced communication skills as they
learn to conduct research on a topic, ask questions, organize
their ideas, express opinions, and construct meaningful
narratives.”
(p 224)Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool
6. Personal Narratives
This form is used to tell
of an event in a person's
life, or may honor
another significant
person in their life
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/movie_pers
onal_reflection_01.html
Story examples from University of Houston Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling site:
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu
7. Historical
Here, one can tell a
story to examine a
historical event.
May involve using
historical
photographs, newspap
er
headlines, speeches, a
nd even audio and http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/movie_social_studies_03.html
video
9. Cowbird
Cowbird is a community of
people who tell their stories
using pictures, words and,
often, audio.
Great resource for a
creative writing project
(choose one photo and talk
about it.)
http://cowbird.com/story/32465/Left_Turns/
11. Voicethread
Voicethread is collaborative tool that can be used for a more
interactive space
Students can post their stories (including audio) on
Voicethread
Other students (and/or instructors) can post comments to the
stories
12. Five Card Flickr
Choose from Flickr
Photos that are
presented randomly
Write/Improvise a story
Good for thinking and
writing creatively
http://5card.cogdogblog.com/show.php?id=26784
13. Windows MovieMaker
Requires a bit more
work
Good for telling
complicated stories
Can also be used for
essay-focused projects
Available on Windows
based PCs http://youtu.be/4LEKb3wDyP8
14. iMovie
Easy to use
Utilizes photos and videos
Photos are given the Ken
Burns effect (zoom in, pan
across, etc.)
Particularly useful in iPad
environment
http://youtu.be/piwAQuoDHwY
Note background in theatre, teaching theatre, and how I now work in technology. While I haven’t used all of these tools in my own teaching (you will see some examples), if I were still teaching the theatre classes that I taught then, I would definitely use these. What I will explain is how I taught the class and then how I would integrate this technology into the lesson plan.
The How:example from solo performance class, about writing a story about an experience, basing it on a personal effect from our lift that had meaning - how this can be done with digital storytellingNarrative: learning about student backgrounds, for example (Intro to Theatre course - essay on family rituals - how rituals became theatre by stories told over and over)
Interactive communication and interpersonal skills – students who were often shy found a new way to express themselves with Digital storytelling.Technology literacy – students gain new technology skills.With Visual literacy, especially, they learn a new way to tell a story that depends less on words and more on visuals.Curiosity, etc. – very interesting, when students see the work of other students, it piques their curiosity, allows them the space to want to take risks.
When I took a storytelling class, we were told to bring in one item that meant something to us. In the class, we created a story based on the memories of that item.Cowbird would allow for students to create a story based on a photo that is meaningful to them.
In a intro to Theatre class, I had my students write about rituals in their family. It was a way to introduce them to rituals as well as to each other. A cowbird assignment like this example would serve the same purpose.
Voicethread is another tool that could be used in a similar way to Cowbird. The difference is that it is interactive, which would allow for Q & A
Five card Flickr works best for creative writing, getting creative juices flowing, allowing writers to write freely without thinking.Go to site – (after viewing my 5 card Flickr). Have audience choose and writeSave link – links can go in blogs, LMS, etc.
Example from class of Titus Andronicus
I put this together in a few minutes with my iPad. Students can use photos that they have to create a story.
