The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on using Windows MovieMaker 2.0 to help students express their voice through digital storytelling. The workshop includes introductions, a discussion on what makes an effective story, learning the elements of storytelling, practicing storytelling through random images, an overview of MovieMaker, planning tools, discussing copyright and sources for images and sounds, and time for questions.

1. Expressing Student Voice Through Windows MovieMaker 2.0 WOSU@COSI Media Lab November 16, 2007 9-3

2. Instructed by Rachel Simon [email_address] 614/247/8326

3. Welcome and Introductions What grades and subjects do you teach? Why are you at the digital storytelling workshop?

4. Getting Started with a Storytelling Activity with Topic Generator http://www.thestorystarter.com

5. Discussion What does storytelling mean to you? Who are the storytellers for today’s children? What types of stories? What makes a good story? Why digital stories/movies? http://www.pbs.org/americanfamily/teacher3.html

6. Elements of a good story Seven Elements Digital Storytelling Cookbook http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html Six Elements http://digitales.us/resources/story_elements.php#

7. Mini Assignment Practice storytelling with random images from the free images website and write/tell a story that connects them.

8. Learning from Example and Getting Started http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx

9. Lesson Ideas Davinci Code Challenge http://davincids.wikispaces.com/

10. Planning Tools Topic Generation Storyboarding Techniques

11. Storyboarding Resources

12. Images and Materials A word about Copyright Free Sound and Image Sources

13. Software and Tools

14. Resources http://www.itscoteam.org/~lauren/storytelling.html

15. Questions and Evaluations