Kelli McGraw presented on digital storytelling and Inanimate Alice. She discussed what digital storytelling is, including different types like digital fictions, embellishments, and transformations. She provided examples of where to find digital stories online, such as the Electronic Literature Collection. Inanimate Alice is an interactive web series that can be used as a teaching tool in Australian classrooms. Students benefit from making their own digital stories as it develops higher order thinking, digital literacy, problem solving, and storytelling skills.

1. Alice in Australia:
Making Digital Stories
Kelli McGraw – QUT
Slides available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/kellimcgraw

2. Tweet it!
• I am @kmcg2375
• ETAQ is @ETAQLD
• Tag your ETAQ event tweets with #ETAQ

3. What is your story?
To the person sitting next to you:
• What is your name?
• What school are you from, or what is
your role?
• Is digital storytelling popular at your
school? How do you know?

4. What is Inanimate Alice?
Do have a friend like Brad?
you
Which way is the right way?
What would you do in Alice's shoes?

5. What is ‘Digital Storytelling’?
Where can I find some digital
stories?
How can Alice in Australia
be used?
Why is it important for
students to MAKE digital stories?

6. What is
‘Digital
Storytelling’?

7. Story-telling

8. DIGITAL Twitter = newest tweet at top
(Therefore read bottom-to-top)
Story-telling

9. …more ‘types’

10. Digital fiction types:
Digital Digital Digital Digital ‘Born
Blended
Replic- Embell- Transfor- Revers- Digital’
Stories
ations ishments mations ionings Fiction

11. Where can I find
some Digital
Stories?

12. Some ‘Born Digital’ stories
• Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2:
http://collection.eliterature.org/2/index.html
• two five three (interactive novel):
http://www.ryman-novel.com/
• Telescopic text (hypertext):
http://www.telescopictext.com/
• Shopping List (hypertext):
http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/hw/groceries/

13. http://www.inanimatealice.com/

14. http://inanimatealice.edu.au/

15. Alice in Australia
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/stories/1_tilly_and_brad/

17. How can Alice
in Australia
be used?

18. Digital Resources
• Active online support
community
• Support from Education
Services Australia
• EQ ‘Learning Place’
resources underway

19. Digital Assets

20. Alice in
Australia
&
‘SNAPPY’
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/

21. Why is it
important for
students to make
digital stories?

22. Create – Design – Produce
Making digital stories develops…
• Higher order thinking e.g. creativity/design
• Digital literacy
• Problem solving skills via project work
• Narrative ‘voice’
• Awareness of imagery & symbolism

24. Screen shot of the ‘Snappy’ story creator

25. References & Links
Inanimate Alice episodes 1-4:
http://www.inanimatealice.com/
Alice in Australia & ‘Snappy’ download:
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/
Inanimate Alice trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5_kSTsub8
Kelli’s digital storytelling resources:
http://kmcgraw.wetpaint.com/page/Digital+Storytelling