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Diane BarriePA Writing and Literature Project,
Technology LiaisonJuly 2011
Our AgendaIntroductionsSetting the Purpose
Essential Questions/Big IdeasWhy Digital Storytelling?
Exploration: What is Digital Storytelling?
Application: How To…Tools, Tricks, and TipsMake Your Own! (Thursday)
Closure
Workshop ResourcesGo to www.pawlpwiki.pbwiki.com
Scroll down to #12. Workshop Resources
Click on July 2011 (DST at WDSD)
Essential Questions
Why use technology for teaching and learning?
Why choose digital storytelling as a medium for teaching and learning?Go to Workshop Resources July 2011 to blog
your initial thoughts
Big Ideas#1 - Technology is a tool for
teaching and learning, not the focus of the lesson
Big Ideas#2 – “Integrating Technology”
means students use the technology, not just view
Big Ideas#3 - Using technology requires
students to acquire and use 21st century skills
Creativity
Communication Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Why Digital Storytelling?
Technology is Changing How We Communicate
Why Digital Storytelling?A medium that gives voice to students’ ideas
Do your students know how to speak with conviction?
A medium to which the YouTube generation can relate… What are those 21st century skills? (read and
respond to Friedman Article on 21st Century Learners)
Why Digital Storytelling?Develops visual and multimedia literacy
addresses development of the interpretation of digital media and application of that interpretation to a personal message or story
Provides students with a competitive and compelling voice enlarges boundaries of audienceincreases depth and power of communication
Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm
Why Digital Storytelling?Permits students to recapture creativity,
develop it and intensify it, apply it, extend it…
Helps students write more effectively permits visualization of the writingresults in additional level of perception that extends
the writing process to a place seldom reached
Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm
Why Digital Storytelling?Provides an authentic personal learning
experiencestudent investment greatly increased results in greatly improved motivation and
end productTeaches technology and information
literacy
Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm
What are Digital Stories?EXPLORE!
Go to University of Houston Educational Uses of DST (link on Workshop Resources)
View several examplesCreate a working definition
7 Elements of DSTPoint of View What is the main point of the story and what is
the perspective of the author?
A Dramatic Question
A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end of the story.
Emotional Content
Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the story to the audience.
The Gift of Your Voice
A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context.
The Power of the Soundtrack
Music or other sounds that support and embellish the storyline.
Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.
Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.
*Source: University of Houston Educational Uses of DST
Explore! Six DST Sites1. DIGITALES 2. CENTER FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING 3. HELEN BARRETT'S DST 4. JASON OHLER'S DST 5. MULTIMEDIA AND INTERNET SCHOOLS DST 6. KEVIN HODGSON'S DST
Be prepared to share three interesting things you
learned and/or applications for DST in the classroom.
What Purposes and Projects?Persuasion – PSAMarketing/Persuasion – Create a Product
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_grant_zimmerman/relieve_student_boredom_quick_engaging_project
Poetry – Digital Poem (see Poem Flows)Informative Movie (to synthesize content
from a unit)More at
http://21stcenturyteaching.pbworks.com/Ideas-for-Photostory-3-Projects
How To…Software optionsResources (websites)DirectionsAssessmentPublication and Celebration
Software - BeginnersPhoto Story
freevery easy to usefewer options
Software - IntermediateMovie Maker
Easy to use, but there are a few tricks of the trade:Save everything for your movie in one
folder Never move your folder or the contents!
MM vs. PSMM allows you to use video and add text
throughout the story
Software – other free optionsPower PointVoicethreadMakeBeliefs ComixKerpoof
ResourcesClick on Digital Storytelling at the PAWLP
Wiki Music:
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/http://ccmixter.org/http://www.freesound.org/index.phphttp://www.jamendo.com/en/
AssessmentBegin with the end in mind – What do you
want your students to know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the instruction?RubricsReflection
Publication/Celebration (http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/search/processRequest.do?Ntt=movies&requestURI=searchMain&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0)
HomeworkOn Thursday, you’ll make a short (1-2
minute) digital storyThink about a story you want to tell
Personal ORProfessional (example for a class
project?)Find/bring digital pictures (10-20) on a
flash drive or upload to DropBox
Revisit Essential QuestionsWhy use technology for teaching and
learning?Why choose digital storytelling as a medium
for teaching and learning?