Digital Storytelling

Brian Newberry

Digital Storytelling

We live in an Age of Digital Stories

• 48 hours of video are uploaded every

• Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day

http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

Digital Storytelling

We live in an Age of Digital Stories

• Users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week

• More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

Digital Storytelling

We live in an Age of Digital Stories

• YouTube's demographic 18-54 years old

• Over 700 billion playbacks in 2010

• 800 Million unique users on YouTube each month

http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics

Digital Storytelling

Story

• An arrangement of ideas - through words, pictures, sound and other media – that conveys meaning.

• A sequence of events with a beginning and an ending.

• A journey shared between the creator and consumer

Digital Storytelling

Humans use stories to:

• Communicate and Develop Shared Meaning• Make a Statement About Themselves• Make Sense of the World and Life• Gain Attention• Negotiate• Socialize • And More!

Digital Storytelling

Aesthetic Experience vs. Anesthetic

• Changing Educational Paradigms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=player_embedded

Digital Storytelling

Educational Purposes

• Teaching• Engaging Different Learning Modalities• Addressing Different Learning Styles and

“Intelligences”• Stimulate Thinking, Writing, and Language Use

Digital Storytelling in Plain English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP6CeGLPuOY

Digital Storytelling

Elements of Good Stories

• Characters• Plot• Setting• Theme• Conflict• Resolution• Story Arc (Think: Beginning, Middle, End)

Digital Storytelling

Technologies and Techniques

• Digital Photography

• Audio Recording

• Digital Video

• Stop Motion

• Slowmation

Digital Storytelling

• Examples

• Vi Hart – Doodling in Math http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0

• My Future Classroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkQE_FWzfg

• Grand Canyon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEoTKxr9EyY

• Fox Becomes A Better Person http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw4lEdsd_fo