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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.