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Digital Storytelling

As human beings, we are hardwired for storytelling. The motto of the Center for Digital Storytelling is "Listen deeply. Tell stories." Digital storytelling projects can provide ideal opportunities for students to acquire and demonstrate the literacy skills required to thrive in the 21st Century. This workshop provides participants with opportunities to experience both listening and telling digital stories using free software tools.

Learner Outcomes
  1. Understanding and exploring digital storytelling in educational contexts
  2. Understand the Continuum of Digital Storytelling Options
  3. Resources and Strategies for Planning a digital storytelling project
  4. Resources and Strategies for Creating a digital story (using voice-over narration, background music and still images)
Requirements
Examples
Steps
  1. Plan: Storyboard and Write
  2. Produce: Record the pieces
  3. Chop: Edit the pieces
  4. Publish: Share your creation
Web-based Digital Storytelling

An increasing number of websites (read/write web or web 2.0 sites) permit users to publish but also edit/create digital stories online.

Publish/Share Digital Stories

  1. dotSUB (all-volunteer, multi-lingual closed-captioning of web videos)
  2. Next Visa for Learning
  3. TeacherTube - Teach The World
  4. UthTV.com - ("youth tv") fosters opportunities for young mediamakers to have their authentic voices heard by a vast audience.
  5. Blip.TV
  6. YouTube

Edit Digital Stories Online

  1. VoiceThread
  2. DigitalStoryteller
  3. BubbleShare
  4. JumpCut
  5. EyeSpot
  6. Viddler
  7. Motionbox
Workshop Curriculum

Depending on time we may use part of the workshop curriculum linked on www.wtvi.com/teks/ds/.

Other Resources
  1. David Jakes' PhotoStory tutorials
  2. Revised Bloom's TaxonomyBernajean Porter's 'DigiTales' Website
  3. CellFlix Film Festival
  4. The Persuasion Map - Great tool for planning and writing
  5. Kitzu: Multimedia project resources (searchable by content area)
  6. Digital Storytelling social bookmarks
  7. Other free Image Sources
  8. The iAudio U2 is a relatively affordable ($80 - $120) cross-platform audio recorder and digital music player (it also has a radio)
  9. American Memory Collection from the US Library of Congress
Articles
  1. Film School - An EduTopia article by Jennifer New about the power of digital storytelling to engage students and foster authentic learning
  2. A Teacher's Guide to YouTube - from EduTopia

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