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Digital Storytelling• Why?• Dyan’s Couch• Youtube• Digital video is becoming the media of

choice• Our students are comfortable with it.

Remember, they are natives, we are immigrants

Definition of Digital Storytelling

• combining the long standing art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing.

• It combines Digital, Art, Oral and Written literacies

Digital, Art, Oral and Written literacies

• These literacies rely on one another

• improves literacy and expression in all areas.

Why is oral storytelling important in digital

storytelling? • No matter how high tech we become,

telling stories to each other orally will endure as one of our primary and most powerful forms of communication.

• It will always be an important skill to have in the workplace, in our communities and in our schools.

Why is writing important in digital

storytelling?• The pathway

Why is art important in digital storytelling?

1. art is becoming the next literacy, or 4th R

2. Must teach multimedia effectively3. Need understand design - the

grammar of art

Why is digital literacy important?

• Digital literacy = using technology effectively, creatively and wisely

• Use technology as an imagination amplifier

• www.teachertube.com

Media literacy • Media literacy = Recognizing,

evaluating and applying the methods of media persuasion.

• media literacy an explicit goal of your digital storytelling

• students cannot understand how media persuades until they become media persuaders themselves

• example

Different kinds of stories and storytelling

“Committing a bad story to digital media, is like giving a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier” Jason Ohler

A personal story that involves a personal

change or realization Personal Reflection Stories

MemorialsEvents in our livesPlaces in our livesOur jobsRecovery StoriesLove StoriesDiscoveryShort StoriesMyths

SampleMy MamaAlmost Paradise• A Dog’s Tale• Fox Finds a Friend

An academic or "unit of instruction" story

• Science and math

How can you as a teacher use storytelling and

digital media in content areas in your classroom? BiographiesBook reportsHow-to directions

How can you as a teacher use storytelling and

digital media in content areas in your classroom? Summary ReportsBook reportsHow-to directionsBiographies

Stories vs. reports - engagement vs. critical

thinking

• Inspirational stories + critical thinking

• persuasive power of the story form• reflection, problem solving and

reasoned thinking • combination of story form and

analytical report.

Persuasion1. Advertisements 2. Describe/conclude3. Analyze/conclude4. Analyze/persuade5. Compare/contrast6. Cause/effect

Road Taken for Peace

That frontier will be largely dominated by digital storytelling.

• Teachers are more important than ever

7 Elements1(A Point) of view• Stories are told to make a point• All stories are personal• Use first-person• first-person voice is authoritative,

seemingly neutral

2. Dramatic Question• Don’t just make a point • Set up a question in the beginning

3. Emotional Content• Requires plain old-fashioned common

sense and maturity• Exploring emotional material is a

personal decision.

4.Gift of Voice• our voice is a great gift • The voice can show strength and

weakness • Try not to read, but talk

5.The Power of the Soundtrack• Ipod generation• Stirs emotions• Be careful with lyrical music• Instrumental is best• Copyright

6. Be economical• Don’t go overboard on materials• effectively illustrated with a small

number of images and video

• 7. Pacing• move along generally at an even

pace, • starts and stops, pauses, and

quickly spurted phrases

Tools

• Websites-Public Domain• Images• Software• Video • Music• Your voice

Why is it a good tool for teachers?

• Appeal to the diverse learning styles of the students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media

• Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms.

• Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own.

Why is it a good tool for students?

• Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content.

• Develop communications skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience.

• Increase computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia  including: text, still images, audio and video

Getting StartedWhat do you need to be a digital storyteller1. Hardware2. Software –PhotoStory Movie Maker Adobe

Premiere Elements, Audacity3. Digital camera4. Voice recorder5. Scanner6. Microphone USB7. Video camera

Camera

Video Mistakes• Common Video Shooting Mistakes

from Robert Scoble

Power of music in your digital story

• A Christmas Gory• Bottom line: Music manipulates and

can overtake a story if over used or over played. Make sure your music supplements your story, and not the other way around. When it is the other way around, you have a music video.

Student Activity• Have them do a quick write following each

video about what kind of movie they think they are watching, what they think the story line might be and how they feel toward the young man in the movie. You need to play each movie to get the full effect. They are only 30 seconds long. I suggest you play the movie without any sound at all before playing all three sequences with sound.

• Movie Sequence #1 • Movie Sequence #2 • Movie Sequence #3

A Few Words about Copyright

Common Sense Copyright -respect for others' property

1. Citation 2. Permission 3. Compensation

A Few Words about Copyright

If your stories are published on the Web, list a disclaimer. Work done for educational use is under the fair use protection of existing copyright law.