DigitalStorytelling

Agenda

1. The What

2. The How

3. The When

4. Q & A

What is a       Digital Story?

What is a Digital Story?

"A short, first-person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds"                                                  ~ Center for Digital Storytelling

What is a Digital Story?

"Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories"                                                                      ~ University of Houston

What is a Digital Story?

"Short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart"                                                                   ~ Daniel Meadows

What is a Digital Story?

Key Points:--It’s short--It’s personal--It’s from the heart--It uses different media                                                                

Examples of Digital Stories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0QkVu5t6w

Examples of Digital Stories

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

How do you make one?            

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Creating a Digital StoryStep 1: Decide on the focus of the storyStep 2: Write the scriptStep 3: Find images/video/music Step 4: Add images Step 5: Record narrationStep 6: Add a soundtrack Step 7: Produce the digital story

Tools of the Trade

JoggleImageLoopOne True MediaRockYouSlideSlideFlickrflickrslidrSlideoopictobrowserPhotoShowSliderollPicasaLinking Flickr Notes

50+ Ways to Tell a Storyhttp://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

PhotoPeachTikatokTar Heel ReaderDandelifeOurStoryxtimelineVoice ThreadVUVOXVUVOX CollageMixercastgnomzComicsSketchToondooFlicktion

KerpoofBubblrComiqsPikiStripsPixtonTabbloScrapblogGlogsterMapwingGoogle My MapsWayfaringFlickr …Word Story

BlabberizeyodioBubblePLYMotionboxAnimotoJayCutxtranormalshwupEmpressrSpresentSlideshare / SlidecastsZentationZoho Show

MyPlickGoogle PresenterWebSlidesSlideboomSlideRocket280 slidesPreziAheadVcasmoPodcast People

Tools of the Trade• Jing (win. / mac)• iMovie (mac) / Moviemaker (win.)• PhotoStory (win.)• VoiceThread• Animoto• Adobe Connect

Jing

PhotoStory

When (and why) do you use them?

Ways to Use Faculty Stories• A way to introduce yourself to your students

• Introduction for a course

• Introduction of a unit/week

• Introduction to a problem of practice

• _______________________

• _______________________

Benefits of Faculty Stories• Provides insight into our educ. & personal values; • Highlights our teaching approaches and strategies; • Exposes our personalities, voices, and families; • Remind students we were once students too;• Models relevant personal sharing, self-disclosure, and storytelling; • Illustrates our enthusiasm for the teaching-learning enterprise; and • Begins the process of building trust, connection, and community.

Ways to Use Student Stories• Introduce themselves

• Unit / week or course summary

• As an alternative presentation

• As a different kind of case study

• _______________________

• _______________________

Benefits of Student Stories• Alternative to typical presentations and essays; • Teaches others about a particular concept or topic in a different way; • Can help summarize a lesson or unit, or set of readings; • Illustrates their ability to work up Bloom’s Taxonomy• Empowers students to creatively express their ideas and perspective in an engaging, evocative way.

Resources--Copy of the presentation, job aids, and articles on digital storytelling: www.slideshare.net/plowenthal

--Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu

--Center for Digital Storytellinghttp://www.storycenter.org

Homework ChallengeUse one of the job aids and/or screencasts to create your first digital story. It can be about anything.

Spend about an hour this weekend working on it, upload it to the web (e.g., on screencast.com) and email the URL to your story to Patrick at patrick.lowenthal@ucdenver.edu so that Patrick can share it with all of us.