digital storytelling using photo story 3 presented by janice butler university of texas at...

Digital StorytellingUsing Photo Story 3

Presented byJanice Butler

University of Texas at Brownsville

© Copyright, 2006. EdUKey Solution. All rights reserved.

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Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey


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It begins with a story. . .

“…what is occurring because of that one simple little thing you have done (teaching digital storytelling) is really rather phenomenal. Remember your question to us at the beginning of the training. “Would it help if I could give you a technology tool that everyone could learn to use very quickly even if you don’t know anything about technology?”

I wondered when you said that how it could be done. Well, you did it and it has proven to be effective many times over with an unbelievable ripple effect as it is touching special education, ESL students, recent immigrants, parents of autistic children, and on and on.”


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• Why are we here today?

• What are digital stories?


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You will know how to:

• Plan, create, edit and produce digital stories using a variety of technology tools

– Photo Story 3

– Wavepad

– Photofiltre

– PowerPoint

– Scanners

– Digital cameras

– Other


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• Produce a variety of different types of digital stories

– Personal reflection and growth

– Content introduction

– Discovery

– Content reinforcement by student

– Drill

• Teach all of this to your students so they can create their own stories


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• Build student-centered lessons integrating the technology

• Create several lessons using core TEKS

• Become an ambassador for digital storytelling in the classroom

• Have fun!!!


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Some rules

• No question or comment is silly

• Feel free to rove and share with the others – in fact, we need you to do this

• Go when you gotta go

• Be prepared to provide feedback and to share


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Change is upon us . . .

• A paradigm shift means fundamentally altering the way things are done.

• The future …belongs to pioneers - the people who are willing to accept high risk and open a new trail to the future. They put the new paradigm into practice.

• Joel Barker

• Futurist, Author of Paradigms


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• …profound change—a paradigm shift—will one day transform the way you [do business.]

– Joel Barker, Paradigm Principles

–Our business is education.


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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

–Albert Einstein


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NCLB

• Technology deadline on December 31, 2006

• Are we prepared to meet the deadline?

• What is going to happen now?

• Are students prepared to use technology to “perform” not just to play?


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Paradigm Shift in Education

• For the first time in the history of education, students know vastly more about a subject (technology) than the teachers do.

• Students now have access to information about anything – at their fingertips.

• This paradigm shift (to learn to use technology, integration of core academics) requires a huge learning curve in a time when few people have free time.


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“Would it help if I could give you a technology tool that everyone could learn to use very quickly even if you don’t know anything about technology?”


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• Now you need to get up to speed on: TAKS, TEKS, technology integration, academic integration, math TEKS, English TEKS, reading TEKS, science TEKS, social studies TEKS . . .

• AND – teach many students with a wide variety of technology, math, English, reading skills

• AND – address needs of special populations – SE, LEP and at-risk…


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• However, educational technology is not, and never will be, transformative on its own.

• It requires the assistance of educators who integrate technology into the curriculum, align it with student learning goals, and use it for engaged learning projects.

– http://www.ncrel.org/

http://www.ncrel.org/




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Use Digital Stories to

• Enhance curriculum in the classroom• Integrate math, reading and technology• Reinforce processes, i.e., sequencing, part to whole,

whole to part, cause and effect, etc.• Create emotional connections to learning• Have fun learning


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Challenges you will face:

• Seeking meaningful uses of digital storytelling other than the superficial ones

• Wanting students to use digital imaging as a mode of communication and personal reflection

• Integrating multimedia development into curriculum

• Avoiding copyright infringement

Part IICopyright Laws


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In a nutshell

• Copyright chart

• Copyright quiz

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright_quiz.html


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Copyright free locations

– Downloading images from the Internet, websites with royalty free photos, music

• http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml

• http://freestockphotos.com/

• http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

• http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

• http://www.morguefile.com/


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Creative Commons

• Best thing to happen since sliced bread:

• http://www.creativecommons.org

http://www.creativecommons.org/

http://www.creativecommons.org/


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Creative Commons - music

• Sounds – Thunderstorm– By RHumphries. Retrieved on September 10, 2006

(http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=1112) rbh thunder storm.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=2523)

• Spooky stuff • October 31, 2006 By lancelottjones

(http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=24904) spooky.wav

(http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=9408)


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• CCmixter is really cool

– How bout Ophelia’s song?

• Freesound Project

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

Part IIIDigital Storytelling


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Many definitions – but we will work with this one…digital storytelling is…

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

• The story is the important aspect of digital storytelling.

• We all have a story to tell, to share, to bring to life with pictures, sound, narration, and music.


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Elements of the story…

• Overall Purpose of the Story • Narrator’s Point of View • A Dramatic Question (or Questions) • Choice of Content • Clarity of Voice • Pacing of the Narrative • Meaningful Soundtrack • Quality of the Images • Economy of the Story Detail • Good Grammar and Language Usage


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A visual story, might also use:

• First person narrative

• Previously recorded audio

• Text slides

• Interviews

http://www.cultureisaweapon.org/media/240/anita_final_movie.mov


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For teachers/students to be successful

• Need an Integrated Project

• Build a model of rich technology-integrated teaching and learning

• Demonstrates power of technology when used to support compelling, authentic content


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Begin with the question and the storyboard…

http://www.wmich.edu/pt3/ds/look.html

Part IVUsing Photo Story 3


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• "Emotions drive the threesome of attention, meaning, and memory."

• In essence, that sums up what we know about learning: attending to information, constructing meaning, and lodging it in our memory.

• Brain researchers have shown that emotions are critical to patterning, which is the way that information is organized in the brain, how we are able to retrieve that information.


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• Emotions assist in both evaluating and integrating information and experiences.

– Jensen, Eric (1998). Teaching with the Brain in Mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.


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• Combining the tools of today’s electronic media with great teaching methods has given educators a whole new way to give wings to a child’s learning.

– Mark Standley– Digital Storytelling: Using new technology and

the power of stories to help our students learn - and teach


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• When students understand what makes great stories for audiences and how storytelling helps audiences learn, they can create messages that shape not only their own learning, but help teach others across the world.

– Mark Standley– Digital Storytelling: Using new technology and

the power of stories to help our students learn - and teach


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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

-Albert Einstein

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Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

• John Dewey• Democracy and

Education, 1916


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• Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.


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• Patterns and programs drive our understanding – intelligence is the ability to elicit and to construct useful patterns

– http://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedLearn98.htm

http://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedLearn98.htm



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Uses for PS 3

• To reinforce student learning• To assess• To allow students to teach others • To collaborate with peers• To develop organizational and processing skills• To prioritize• To introduce a topic • To have fun learning• To have fun teaching• To have fun sharing

Digital StorytellingUsing Photo Story 3

Let’s get ready to rock and roll…


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Web Resources/Sources - Photo Story 3 and Digital Storytelling

ESPIRITU+ Steps in Installing and Running Photo Story 3http://gemini.utb.edu/jchavez/ps3/index.htm

ESPIRITU+ Photo Story 3 Online Tutorial http://gemini.utb.edu/amedrano/photostory/index.htm

Workshop – PBL, Photo Story 3 and more, Bernard Robin, Ph.D. http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/pbl/schedule.htm

Valuable information on the students of today -Today’s Students and What Students Might Look Like in the Future, Bernard Robin, Ph.D. http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/pbl/end-of-the-world.ppt

http://gemini.utb.edu/jchavez/ps3/index.htm

http://gemini.utb.edu/amedrano/photostory/index.htm

http://gemini.utb.edu/amedrano/photostory/index.htm

http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/pbl/schedule.htm

http://fp.coe.uh.edu/brobin/pbl/end-of-the-world.ppt


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Web Resources/Sources - Photo Story 3 and Digital Storytelling cont’d

Good information about copyright laws, technology alignment.http://www.wtvi.com/teks/02_03_articles/copyright.html

Tips for presentations- movieshttp://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55300753

The Art of Telling Digital Storieshttp://www.digitales.us/other_story_sites.php

PhotoStory exampleshttp://www.mygentryfamily.com/microsoft_photostory_examples.htm

Tutorials and good exampleshttp://www.eicsoftware.com/PapaJohn/MM2/MM2.html

http://www.wtvi.com/teks/02_03_articles/copyright.html

http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55300753

http://www.digitales.us/other_story_sites.php

http://www.digitales.us/other_story_sites.php

http://www.mygentryfamily.com/microsoft_photostory_examples.htm

http://www.eicsoftware.com/PapaJohn/MM2/MM2.html


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Brain-based and Educational Research

12 Design Principles Based on Brain-based Learning Researchhttp://www.designshare.com/Research/BrainBasedLearn98.htm

The latest in brain-based research as it relates to educationhttp://www.brainconnection.com/

A wealth of materials on brain-based research and educationhttp://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic70.htm

Regional Educational Laboratories:The nation's network of support for research-based school reformhttp://www.relnetwork.org/

Factors that affect the effective use of technology for teaching and learninghttp://www.seirtec.org/publications/lessondoc.html


http://www.brainconnection.com/

http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic70.htm

http://www.relnetwork.org/

http://www.seirtec.org/publications/lessondoc.html


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Miscellaneous sites

Quotes, anywhere, anywho, anytimehttp://en.thinkexist.com/

One of our favorite project-based learning siteshttp://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html

George Lucas Foundation website – awesome ideas for constructivist – sign up for free magazinehttp://www.edutopia.org/

Awesome and easy to use free (shareware) software for audio editinghttp://www.goldwave.com/

http://en.thinkexist.com/

http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html

http://www.edutopia.org/

http://www.goldwave.com/




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To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. Under such conditions, doing becomes a trying; an experiment with the world to find out what it is like; the undergoing becomes instruction--discovery of the connection of things.

-John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916


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http://gemini.utb.edu/jbutler/presentations/digital_storytelling_BETA.ppt

Janice Butler

[email protected]

956.882.6713

Critical link and email addresses


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Special thanks to Dr. Bernard Robin, University of Houston, for his contribution in introducing Photo Story 3 to the ESPIRITU+ Team and making this PowerPoint presentation more resourceful and informative.

The Beginning


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Other good sites

• http://www.coe.uh.edu/lite/projects.cfm• http://www.coe.uh.edu/lite/multimedia2.cfm

• http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=107 – good stuff

• Really jam packed site• http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm

http://www.coe.uh.edu/lite/projects.cfm

http://www.coe.uh.edu/lite/multimedia2.cfm

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=107

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=107

http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm

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