Wessington Springs School District Digital Storytelling Charlotte Mohling.

Wessington Springs School District

Digital Storytelling

Charlotte Mohling


GOALS• What is digital storytelling?• Correlation to 21st century skills and NETS• Equipment and software• Process• Project ideas• Sample projects


Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights.

- Leslie Rule, Center for Digital Storytelling


ArtDigital

Digital Storytelling combines…

Oral

Writing


21st Century Skills


Correlation of NETS


Equipment

• Computer• Digital camera• Scanner• Microphone• Digital video camera• Music keyboard


Software

Movie/Media Editor

• iMovie • Movie Maker• Photostory• Adobe Premiere Elements


SoftwareImage Editing

• GIMP• Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

Audio Editing

• Audacity• Garageband• ACID


Getting started

• Start with personal story• develop skills, sense of story flow, and emotions connected in creating original story

• Use story form as vehicle for learning and critical thinking

Finding and organizing ideas worth communicating

1. Write the script

2. Plan the project (storyboard 1, storyboard 2)

3. Organize folders (text, images, sound, music, final product)

Gathering and preparing digital media

4. Record voice over

5. Gather, create and edit media sources

Putting it all together

6. Create ROUGH cut first and FINAL cut last

Applause! Applause!

7. Product is completed and distributed to others


Lewis and Clark - Be one of the explorers and tell the story from their perspective

Historical event - Groups of students tell their version of what happened making connections to the other student’s stories (weaving in the events bringing out the connections)

Our community - Meet our community - Looking at our town, how have we changed? - Important people that have shaped our community

Social Studies Projects


Inventions - Explain how inventions and discoveries are important to others - Simple machines, how have they changed the world?

Animals - Tell the story from the butterfly’s point of view - How have animals adapted?

Farming - Tell the story of the fading small farmer - Challenges then and now - Technology on the Farm

Science Projects


Authentic student writing - Students write stories and then illustrate or act out - Family tree stories (think about point of view of someone else) - Take a character to court, students are judge, jury etc.

Fiction - Change the setting, how would it be different today? - Compare and contrast fairy tales from various regions - Change an ending to a favorite tales - Bring a set of characters to life and act out the story - Give a book report

Language Arts Projects


- Take a geometry walk and show and tell what you found - Math is all around the town, really where? Split up in groups and find out - Explain to others a concept like adding fractions using real life examples - Act out math problems using various strategies

Math Projects


Teachers - Tell stories from the front line - Moments you will never forget - Moments you wish you could forget!

Re-enact - A piece of literature - A picture book - An event in history - Study and debate issues important to students in the class

Character - Emphasize selected character trait

General Projects


Sample Rubric 1

Sample Rubric 2

Evaluation of Stories


Twins: The Same But Yet So Different

Wessington Springs School District Digital Storytelling Charlotte Mohling.

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