This document discusses digital storytelling as a way to engage students in learning. It defines digital storytelling as a new oral tradition that appeals to diverse learning styles. The goals are to generate student interest and motivation, increase collaborative research skills, and develop communication skills. The document provides examples of how digital storytelling can be integrated into the curriculum and outlines the steps teachers should take to implement digital storytelling projects in their classrooms.

1. Digital Storytelling in the Content Curriculum Tom Turner – Polk County Schools

2. Defining our students Multi-taskers Creators Innovators Connected Engaged Open and Transparent What does all this mean?

3. Most of our students are more knowledgeable with computers than the teacher at the front of the class

4. What is Digital Storytelling? The New Oral Tradition

5. Goals Appeal to the diverse learning styles of our students Generate interest and motivation for the ‘digital natives’ we teach Increase collaborative research skills Develop communication skills

6. Authentic Assessment Teaching today is data driven (FCAT, Kaplan, DIBELS, Thinklink) Skill & Drill is not the answer Digital Storytelling follows the Project Based Learning Approach Student Inquiry New Bloom’s Top Level: Create (generate, produce, construct)

7. Storytelling Ideas Use as anticipatory set of a unit Integrate with other applications Inspiration Google Earth – Virtual Tourism Timeliner Project-based learning with an essential question

8. Storytelling Ideas First Person Narratives - “All About Me”

9. Storytelling Ideas Examining Historical Events

10. Storytelling Ideas Informational or Instructional

11. Storytelling Ideas Voicethread – Digital Storytelling meets web 2.0

12. Steps to Implementation

13. Research & Organize Plan, Plan, Plan! Gather Resources for student use Hardware/Software demands

14. Teaching Storytelling to Students Be the expert for your students Demonstrate any software/hardware to be used Share exemplary examples ( http://www.digitales.us ) Explain expectations - Rubric

15. Student Inquiry Student Brainstorming Creating Storyboards – have a template to be used ( American Film Institute ) Scripting - building writing skills Creating – Bloom’s Taxonomy

17. Reflection Teacher Reflection What went well? What didn’t go well? What could be improved? Interview students Student Reflection Did I do my best? What I liked about this project? What did I learn from this project?

18. Tools of the Trade Digital Camera Digital Video Camera Tripod – gorilla pod  Scanner Computer (OS not dependent) Flash/Thumb Drive (not necessary) Blank CD-R’s

19. Tools of the Trade Microsoft Photostory3 (free download) Windows Moviemaker (free/installed on Windows XP Machines) iMovie (Mac OS only) Adobe Premier Elements Adobe Photoshop Elements Audacity ( free download )

20. Tools of the Trade – Web 2.0 Picasa – www.google.com Fotoflexer - fotoflexer.com TeacherTube – teachertube.com Discovery Education streaming – streaming.discoveryeducation.com FreePlay Music - freeplaymusic.com/ Picnik – www.picknik.com FLICKR – www.flickr.com

21. Tools of the Trade – Web 2.0 50 Tools – compiled by Alan Levine Cliotech Digital Storytelling Resources – http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling Virtual Tourism - virtualtourism.blogspot.com/

22. Jennifer Dorman – PA “ I think that digital storytelling puts students in the "driver's seat" and invests them in the learning process because they are constructing, understanding and uncovering learning while the teacher may facilitate the process; it is the students who are thinking and learning in rigorous and relevant ways”

23. Steve Dembo – Chicago, IL “ Writing a story allows students to express themselves. Digital storytelling gives their expressions life.”

24. Diana Laufenberg – Flagstaff, AZ “ Providing students the flexibility and creativity to digitally craft their own stories has been one of the most professionally transformative moments of my career.”

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