The document discusses digital storytelling, emphasizing its role in describing change, creating meaning from experiences, and making complex ideas memorable. It provides tips for effective storytelling, including focusing on relatable events, crafting impactful openings and closings, and maintaining audience engagement through tension and resolution. Additionally, it touches on considerations like the required skills, time investment, and the potential for disruption in the storytelling process.

1. www.netskills.ac.uk
Digital Storytelling
Chris Thomson
@cbthomson

2. What is digital storytelling?
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3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinkohlenbergphoto/5406459295/

4. Footloose Digital Storytelling
Stories…
• …describe change
• …create meaning out of experience
• …make complex ideas memorable

5. Change
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6. Creating meaning
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7. Memory
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8. Using Digital Storytelling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/2693526336/

9. Teaching & Learning
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10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/4773693893/

11. Footloose Digital Storytelling
or
• Splice (free or ad-less versions) • Andromedia
• iMovie • (Samsung video editor)
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12. Projects and Community Engagement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtopf/4074083883/

13. Creating your own
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterhess/2400048680/

14. Footloose Digital Storytelling
Story writing tips
•Focus on people or events
•Your audience will relate to the story better
•Tell small stories to make a big point
•Nail the first and last sentences
•You need high impact at the start
•The last sentence should resonate with your audience
•Create tension
•Your audience will want to stick with the story to find out
what happens
•Provide resolution…
•…or don’t provide resolution!
•Leaving things hanging can spur someone on to do
something
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15. Footloose Digital Storytelling
Things to bear in mind…
• Environment
• Time-consuming
• Skill sets
• Vulnerability
• "Disruptive"
• Price of "failure"
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16. Footloose Digital Storytelling
Resources
http://bit.ly/cll_story
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