Digital Storytelling March 27, 2012

OTF Connects Brenda Sherry brendasherry.comPeter Skillen www.peterskillen.org

What is a Digital Story?

• A short, first person, video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music and other sounds

Pre-Production

• what is digital storytelling?

• setting a criteria and finding story ideas

• finding audio and visual resources

Production • planning, storyboarding and collecting visuals• work time: creating audio and putting media together

Post-Production

• rough cuts

• final edits

• celebrating our stories

• thinking about assessment/reflection

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Kinds of Digital Stories1. Teach Me Something

‣ an instructional or how-to story

2. Tell Me A Story

‣ tell a story about someone special, your school, or your community

3. Environmental Concerns and Social Issues

‣ share environmental concerns and social issues to raise awareness and promote social action

What makes a powerful digital story?

Let’s watch some....and discuss

Hidden http://theconstructionzone.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/hidden-a-project-that-worked/

The Recycling Can and the Garbage Can http://vimeo.com/24284978

No Easy Cruise by Janice Robertson http://vimeo.com/27179092

A Special Lady by Christina Rzazewski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjGXzR5Abs

How to Animate a Rolling Ball http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbLAreElNI

The Fox and the Owl by Marty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN8aAvqIbhg

The Silent Hero by Emily Cowley http://vimeo.com/39284130

Summer All The Time http://vimeo.com/24285443

Not a Fairy Tale http://vimeo.com/24296379

Setting criteria...

In small groups discuss the DS you’ve just watched and brainstorm a list of things you notice.

What makes a great Digital Story?

Come up with 4 - 5 criteria for an effective DS.

Criteria for an effective DS

•emotional connection•good story•music, images, narrative, should all flow•pacing is appropriate•audience appeal•message is clear

7 Elements of Digital Stories

• Audience

• Purpose

• Emotional/Meaningful Content

• Voice

• Technology

• Connections

• Economy

• Pacing

Great help for teachers

Curriculum

Media Literacy/Language Arts:•identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;•create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques,•reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts;Writing/Language Arts:•generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;•draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic formsand stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;Oral Language/Language Arts:•use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;

Depending upon topics/themes for your grade/subject area, also check:•Drama•Social Studies/History/Geography

Elementary

Curriculum Expectations

Curriculum ExpectationsEnglishENG3U WRITINGOVERALL EXPECTATIONS

By the end of this course, students will:•Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;•Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;•Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;•Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.

So where do we begin?

Bernajean Porter :http://www.digitales.us/resources/seven_steps.php#

Finding our stories

• a most embarrassing moment

• a thunderstorm you remember

• a special person in your life

• a unexpected happening on a vacation

• childhood mythology

• an ‘aha’ moment in your first years of teaching

• the unexplained...???

Resources• Brenda Sherry http://tech2learn.wikispaces.com

• Peter Skillen

http://www.youthbet.net/photovoice/pages/ymca-academy.php

• Kent Manning http://digitalstory.ca

• Bernajean Porter http://Digitales.us

• David Brear http://www.members.shaw.ca/dbrear/dst.html

• Jason Ohler http://www.jasonohler.com

• Adobe Youth Voices http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/