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This document discusses how digital storytelling can promote 21st century skills. It defines digital storytelling as combining narrative with digital media like images, sound, and video to create short movies. Creating digital stories requires thinking carefully about the topic and audience. Stories typically begin with a script and include rich media like music, images, and video. Creating and viewing digital stories can increase students' information literacy and provide artifacts for e-portfolios to demonstrate learning over time. The document provides examples of digital storytelling tools and resources.
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- 1. Using Digital Storytellingto Promote 21st Century Skills Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson Library Media Specialist Pikesville HS April 30, 2012
- 2. Digital Storytelling… What is it? http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf
- 3. Digital Storytelling the practice of combining narrativewith digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf
- 4. Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively require the storyteller to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience’s perspective. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf
- 5. How Does It Works?
- 6. A digital storytypically begins with a script. The storyteller then assembles rich media to support the ideas and emotions in that script, including music or other audio effects, personal or public- domain images, animations or video, and other electronic elements.
- 7. Implications for Teaching and Learning
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- 10. To be readyfor college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synth esize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old and new.
- 11. The need toconduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.
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- 13. Creating and watching digital stories has the potential to increase the information literacy of a wide range of students.
- 14. Moreover, digital stories area natural fit for e- portfolios, allowing students not only to select representative artifacts from their academic careers but also to create compelling resources that demonstrate the student’s learning and growth.
- 16. Everyone has astory. Can you tell yours in six words? http://www.smithteens.com/
- 17. Six Word Memoirs http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/ http://youtu.be/nCJyUMHaL_g
- 18. THREE WORD
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- 20. Paper Slide Video http://paperslide.wikispaces.com/PSV http://youtu.be/Qf6L1PTG3p4
- 21. Resources from this presentation http://bit.ly/PHSLLA
- 23. Using Digital Storytellingto Promote 21st Century Skills Joquetta “The Digital Diva” Johnson