2. Stories represent who we are, portray our
life experiences, and when presented to
others, help connect us to others through
common shared experience.
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3. Agenda
• Overview/Samples
• The Process of Digital Storytelling
• Tools of Digital Storytelling
• Group Project: Louisiana Products
• Presenting and Assessing Digital Stories
• Dissemination of Materials
• Course Evaluation
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4. Think about one of your
favorite stories…
What about the story appealed to
you as a reader or listener?
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5. Characteristics of a good story:
• A single theme, clearly defined
• A well developed plot
• Style: vivid word pictures, pleasing sounds and
rhythm
• Characterization
• Faithful to source
• Dramatic appeal
• Appropriateness to listeners
Baker and Greene, Storytelling: Art and Technique, pp. 28
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6. Digital Storytelling
• A story told using digital media such as
audio, video, and images
• Under 5 minutes
• Can be emotional (affective domain)
• Oftentimes personal such as an
autobiography
• Instructional, persuasive, historical, or
reflective
• Begins with a script
7. Bernajean Porter
http://www.digitales.us/
DigiTales: The Art of Digital Stories
• Point of View
• Elements of a Good Digital Story
– Live inside your story
– Unfold lesson learned
– Develop creative tension
– Economize the story told
– Show, don’t tell
– Develop craftsmanship
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8. Joe Lambert
The Center for Digital Storytelling
Podcast:
• http://technosavvy.org
/2006/03/14/joe-
lambert-digital-
storytelling-part-1/
• http://support.hopkins.
k12.mn.us/podcasts/S
TP-JoeLambert.mp3
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9. Joe Lambert
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
The Gift of Your Voice
The Power of the Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
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12. Gail Matthews-DeNatale
• Combines visual, aural,
and kinesthetic learning
• Iterative production
process encourages
revisiting, reflecting on
meaning
• Increases literacy/fluency
across media
• Connects prior life
experiences, course, and
other co-curricular
learning
• Can be shared beyond
academia
Podcast:
• http://www.educause.
edu/blog/gbayne/ELII
nConversationWeb20
andDigit/167499
13. Carole McCulloch
Uses of Digital
Storytelling:
• Demonstrate a
competency
• Describe a process
• In Portfolios of
achievement
• Develop writing skills
and sense of story for
younger students
Wiki:
http://en.wikibooks.org/
wiki/Instructional_Tec
hnology/Digital_Storyt
elling
Presentation:
http://www.slideshare.n
et/cmcculloch/using-
digital-stories-in-
elearning
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14. Carole McCulloch
Good Digital Stories:
• Are personal
• Begin with the story/script
• Are concise
• Use readily-available source materials
• Include universal story elements
• Involve collaboration: "Story circles," in which
participants give and receive feedback on their stories
and scripts, are an important part of many digital
storytelling workshops. As Joe Lambert puts it,
"Storytelling is meant to be a collaborative art. It is much
more realistic this way, and much more fun."
15. Dr. Arnie Abrams
Digital Storytelling for All Ages
Digital Stories Often
Include:
• Digital images
• Video clips
• Narration
• Music, sound effects
• Transitions
• Words/Text
Handout:
http://www.arnieabra
ms.net/handouts/ds_a
ges_handout.pdf
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17. Benefits
• Address multiple learning modalities
• Visual and multimedia literacy
• Foster sense of individuality and
ownership
• Deeper thinking as a result of organizing
and synchronizing media
• Competitive Voice- ability to distribute
story to a world wide audience (David
Jakes) Stephanie Dixon
18. NETS 2007
Creativity &
Innovation
Communication &
Collaboration
Research &
Information
Fluency Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving &
Decision-Making
Digital Citizenship
Technology
Operations &
Concepts
19. Partnership for 21st Century
Skills
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Skills
• Communication and Collaboration Skills
Articulating thoughts and ideas clearly and
effectively through speaking and writing
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20. Student Profiles
6-8:
Create original animations or videos documenting school,
community, or local events. (1, 2, 6)
9-12:
Create and publish an online art gallery with examples and
commentary that demonstrate an understanding of
different historical periods, cultures, and countries. (1, 2)
24. Tips
• Beginning, middle, and end
• Enhance with original art, photographs,
and other artifacts
• Point of view
• Music that aids in the progression of the
story
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25. David Jakes
The Digital Story Process
Write
Write some more
Storyboard
Locate resources
Create
Share
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27. Storyboarding
• Mapping out the story
• Organizing ideas
• Can use index cards, Word, PowerPoint,
Inspiration, Google Docs/Notebook
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28. Digital Storytelling Steps
• Develop your story
• Write your script
• Create a storyboard
• Gather media (audio, music, video,
images, etc.)
• Build the story (pull all the media together)
• Share your story
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29. Topic Ideas
• Interview
• Myth or legend
• The perfect vacation
• Recipe
• A character
• Inspirational stories
• Taboo topics
• Events and
experiences
• Survival
• Discovery
• Accomplishment
• Adventure
• Loss
• Legacy
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30. The Tools
Narration Video Music Images Software
Audacity- editor Flip Freeplaymusic.com Your own
taken with a
camera
Movie Maker
Basic- Windows
Sound
Recorder (.wav)
Vado Jamstudio.com Discovery
Education
Microsoft
PhotoStory
Recorder built
into Movie
Maker,
PhotoStory 3
Digital
Camera
Findsounds.com American
Memory
Adobe
Premiere
Elements
Digital
Video
Recorder
National
Archives
iMovie
31. Creating a Sample Digital
Story
Topic: 21st Century Technology
Create a video that depicts the technology
used today.
• Find the folder with the saved images
• Use the images to create a simple video
using Photostory
• Each slide must have text
• Use the music creator in Photostory
• Save the project as a video!
32. A few thoughts…
• Copyright/Fair Use for Educators- see
chart
• Digital Citizenship-
http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/Nine_Ele
ments.html
• Authorship on the web
– Grammar/content/accuracy
– Ownership?
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33. Web-based Video Production
• http://Animoto.com- take images and
music
• http://VoiceThread.com – takes images,
video, and narration
• http://www.xtranormal.com - animated
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35. Collaborative Activity
• Groups of 3
• Create a 1-2 minute digital story based on
assigned product
• Write script
• Create storyboard
• Gather media (images, video, audio,
narration, PPT slides, etc.)
• Build story
• Assess using rubric
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36. Louisiana Products
Options:
• Informational
• Documentary
• Interview
• Select product
• Create folder on
desktop; shared
folder
• Gather research
information
• Write script
• Digital photos
• Video footage
• Pull all into Movie
Maker and Narrate!
37. Products to choose from:
• Louisiana Fish Fry
• Tabasco Sauce
• Louisiana Hot Sauce
• Steen’s Syrup
• Camellia Beans
• Zatarain’s mix
• Community Coffee
• Zapp’s
• Tony Chachere’s
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39. Your Tools
• Narration- Microphones
• Digital Video Clips- Vado Camera
• Text on Slides- Microsoft PowerPoint
• Digital Images- Digital Camera, Web
images
• Music- Freeplaymusic.com
• Software- Movie Maker
• Video and Images- Discovery Education
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40. Vado Pocket Video Camera
• Computer may need XVID Codec
• The Vado software should have the file
If not…
• http://www.koepi.info/xvid.html - run the
file on the computer
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42. Storyboard and Timeline View
drag video and images from
Collections in the order you want
them to appear
Collections
This is where the images, video,
sounds you import will be
contained.
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43. Key Terms
• Collection – all of the media you import
into the program
• Project- work in progress. You can
continue to edit a project (.mswmm file)
• Movie- the final project you save by using
the Save Movie Wizard (.wmv file)
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