Tell Me A Digital Story!

A special project

For 8th grade students

Mrs. Count

Standards• An Efficient Information & Technology User

– Computer Operations, Electronic Tools, Terminology – Location Skills - Internet – Keyboarding

• A Responsible Citizen Copyright and Plagiarism – Bibliographic Information

• A Knowledge Constructor Research Process – Evaluation of Information

• A Quality Producer Sharing of Information – Document Production – Word Processing – Document Production – Presentation Tools – Evaluation of Process and Product

• Reading and Writing standards

What will I learn?AKA Objectives!

• You will learn about digital storytelling– What is digital storytelling?– Why digital storytelling?– How does this work with our class?– Examples of digital storytelling

• You will do this by learning the tools to create your digital story

• You will understand the power of digital tools to help tell and save important stories in new ways.

What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch!

• MOMNOTMOM - A Story– http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html

• A personal tale – http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=86

• Holocaust– http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24

What did all the stories have in

common?

Why Digital Storytelling?• “… short, personal multimedia tales told from the

heart“ (Daniel Meadows)• form of digital expression, stories can be created

by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.

• digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows)

Your Project• You and your partner will choose a current or

historical event and tell the story of that event as if you were there (1st person narrative).

• Research• Write the story• Download the graphics• Put it all together using PhotoStory3 storytelling

software– narration– Music– pictures

Content

• Tells someone’s story or an event’s story

• Told from the perspective of the person telling the story– The inventor– Someone at the event

• NOT a report; this is their STORY

Length

• You only have 1 to 2 written pages and 3+ total minutes to tell their story – But a lot of other work goes into this!

• Succinct and to the point• Pictures display a tone, feeling, and

communicate beyond what you are saying

Examples• Dust Bowl

– http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm

• Coal Mine Explosion– http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43

• Class Examples

Tools

Brainstorming worksheet (K

WQN) KWQN with your research notes

Storyboard

Script

Graphics Narration

MusicPhoto Story 3Creativity and hard work!

click here to go to end of show

click on words for a visual of tool

Inspiration Brainstorming Software

Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

Tell me a fact and I’ll learnTell me a truth and I’ll believe

Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever