digitalstorytellingforbeginners
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Digital StorytellingFor Beginners
Choose Photos That Tell a Story
Choose Photos That Tell a Story
Elements of an interesting digital story:
1. A point of view – “Wow; I didn’t know that it was so difficult to grow rice!”
2. A dramatic question – “Who lived here?”
3. Emotional content – “It made me so happy to see the children at the pre-school when they saw us coming up the path.”
4. Not too long or too short
5. Sound. Music, voice, sound effects.
Use the first person in your stories.
I’ve never seen sunflowers growing in a field before.
Dramatic Question:
How would I survive without my parents for three days?
What do the symbols in Phi Mai mean and who put them there?
Where does the food that we eat come from?
What did I learn from farmers and villagers?
Emotional Content
Connect to your audience.
Make them laugh.Make them cry.
Topics Ideas
Everyday life
Transportation
Food
Leisure Activities
Crafts
Culture
History
Compare and Contrast
Explain how Something Works
Explain the History of Something
Ask Questions
Persuade Your Audience
Themes instead of Topics
What I learned
How my thinking changed
Connections between my life and the lives of the people I visited
Taking risks and trying new things
Reaching Out to Another
Growing Up or Changing as a Person
Unexpected Outcomes
How about a poem?
Two roads diverged in a wood and II took the one less travelled byAnd that has made all the difference
You can read or write a poem for parts of your digital story
Use Quotes to Begin or End your
Story
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Ben Franklin