Digital storytelling involves using multimedia such as images, graphics, music and voiceovers to tell stories in a modern way. It can be used by teachers to engage students and introduce difficult topics, and by students to enhance skills like research, literacy and public speaking. Teachers are encouraged to have students create digital stories for a variety of subjects and grade levels using storyboarding and video editing software like iMovie. Copyright and student privacy must be considered when creating digital stories.

1. Presenter
Heather Rogers
2012

2. What is Digital Storytelling?
• Introduction to Digital Stories
• The art of oral storytelling through the use of
modern multimedia to deliver stories using
images, graphics, music, sound and voice
• As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories
focus on a specific topic and contain a particular
point of view.

3. Educational Objectives
• Enhance your lesson plans and
units
• Integrate 21st century technology
into
K-12 and graduate education.
• Create high interest, attention and
motivation in every classroom

4. Digital Stories for
Teachers
• Teachers can use digital stories as:
• A lesson hook
• Technology integration
• A tool to introduce and cover difficult content
• A way to encourage class discussions

5. Digital Stories for
Students
• Digital Storytellin in the Classroom: A True Story
• Digital stories enhance:
• Research
• Literacy
• Organization
• Technology
• Speaking
• Interviews
• Interpersonal
• Problem-Solving
• Assessment
• Language

6. Types of Digital Stories
• Grades K-5
• Events in history
• Science
• Fairy tales
• Folk Tales
• Poetry
• Personal stories
• Book reviews
• Summaries

7. Types of Digital Stories
• Grades 6 and beyond
• Lesson openers
• Lesson or unit summaries
• Alternative assignments for research reports, essays,
posters, and other presentations for:
• Social Studies
• Math
• English
• Science
• World language
• Electives

9. Digital Storytelling
Process
To prepare for a digital story:
• Choose your content
• Conduct research as needed
• Choose software (iMovie)
• Write outline of your story
• Gather images

10. Digital Storytelling
Process
• Build your Storyboard
Pictures Dialogue/Te Music (if Transition
xt needed)

11. Digital Storytelling
Process
• Begin your story in iMovie-
• Add pictures
• Add text
• Add Voice Over
• Add music
• Edit as needed
• Publish & Share

12. Programs & Software
• Video • Photos
• iMovie • Adobe Pro shop
• Get Tube • Adobe Photo Shop
• Microsoft Movie Maker • Gimp
• Memory Miner
• Microsoft Photo Story
• Adobe Premier Elements
• Audio
• Audacity
• Goldwave
• Adobe Audition

13. Copyright Information
• Using images from the web
• Using videos
• Using Music
• Citations in work
• Creative Commons

14. Personal Safety
• No full names
• No student participants (unless given parental
permission)
• No personal information
• Addresses
• Phone numbers