Digital storytelling combines a story with digital visuals, text, narration, video and music. It revolves around a theme and viewpoint. Stories can be interactive and connected to other stories. Digital storytelling builds 21st century skills like creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills. It can be used to explore historical themes or teach informational topics. Teachers can use digital storytelling to engage students and make difficult content more understandable. The creation of digital stories involves researching a topic, writing a story, adding digital elements, and refining the final product.
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The Digital Storytelling Cafe: Intro to digital storytelling with Photostory
1. Flickr photo by Loren Javier
Digital Storytelling
Jen Hegna
By Jen Hegna
2. Definition of Digital Storytelling
• Combines a story with digital visuals,
symbols, text, narration, video and music
• Revolves around a theme and particular
viewpoint
• Stories can be manipulated, interactive, and
connected to other stories
Flickr photo by
Ilya Boyandin
7. Historical
Themes and
Events
Informational
Personal or
Narratives Instructional
Stories
Types of
Digital
Stories
8. Personal Narratives
• Character Stories
• Memorial Stories
• Stories about Events
or Places in Our Lives
• Stories about What
We Do
• Recovery & Discovery
Stories
• Love Stories
9. – Explore and depict a historical theme or
event.
– Require students to research a topic
– Use informational & media literacy skills
– http://www.wshs.org/wshm/featuredexhibits/womensvotes.aspx
10.
11. An Effective Tool for Teachers
• Use as a hook to a lesson
• Integrate multimedia into the
curriculum
• Make difficult content more
understandable
• Facilitate classroom discussion
• Appeal to diverse learning
styles of students
20. What do our students
have to say?
“On other assignments, students try to recreate something the
teacher might want in order to get a good grade, or just write up a
bunch of “stuff”, in this assignment we were expressing something
we believed in and therefore didn’t want to seem stupid or
uninformed. I know I wanted to get people to seriously ponder
what I was presenting; maybe they would think about it more
after the actual presentation was done.”
21. What do our students
have to say?
“This project inspired me to work so much harder than on
other projects because we got to pick our own topics we
felt passionate about and really explain to our peers our
own ideas and values. When we are assigned a projects,
sometimes it’s hard to find inspiration, but when it’s a
topic that we feel passionate about we work hard to get
our point across.”
22. “When using multimedia, I was no longer able to use my voice and
posture as a way to show emotion. I now had to use text, music
and pictures. It was a little confusing at first. I wasn’t sure when to
have changes in texts and pictures, but once I got the hang of it, it
was fun! The project was creative and we really got to use a
different form of media. I agree, our class worked much harder
during this part of the project! I think this is because everyone is
very much into technology, and we were able to create something
with it! It was a new and exciting way to express ourselves. I really
enjoyed watching all of the videos! I would definitely do a project
like this in the future.”
24. Steps to Creating a Digital Story
Step 1: Research &
Collect
Select &
research a
topic
Collect images,
content, &
audio
and save to
computer
folder
25. Step 2: Write & Define Story
Define purpose and point of view
Use a storyboard to plan (I like Concept Maps too!)out
story
26. Step 3: Create Digital Sequence
Import images, content, audio
Arrange & rearrange slides/screens so they
tell or reveal the story
27. Your Voice
• Use your voice to impact the story you
tell.
– Tone: Slow, Fast, Loud, Soft
– Pitch: Vary to add emotion
• It sets the stage & engages the reader.
Flickr photo by
Alphadesigner
30. Pacing
• Change pace of the story
narrative can have pauses
music can change tempo
images can be set to enter at different rates
of speed.
• Allows the audience to concentrate, think, &
maintain interest.
Flickr photo by H.koppdelaney
32. Step 4: Refine & Fine Tune Story
Decide what to keep and what to delete
Evaluate the end result
33. Assessing Digital Stories of Students
Final digital story is just tip of
artifact/assessment iceberg…
Beneath story: storyboards, story maps, scripts, photos,
footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of
writing “under the radar”…if it ain’t on the page…
Source: Digital stories, http://www.jasonOhler.com
***Digitales Rubrics -
http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php