3. Defining e-learning
= electronic learning
type of technology supported
learning where the medium is through
ICTs, particularly digital technologies
is interchangeable in a wide variety
of contexts
defined as the pedagogy empowered
by digital technology
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4. Elearning and literacy
What are your current
understandings,
experience, integration?
There are many
different
definitions of
quot;digital storytelling,quot;
- what is yours?
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5. What will elearning and literacy look
like?
Anything!
The scope is enormous and the
integration can be about anything that
is meaningful to the context.
Education
Reflective learning…..Inquiry
Family, visits, relations, pets, special
events, experiences, learning, music….
The digital story could be related to a
unit of work. Eg Grandparents…
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6. Origins of Digital Stories
Stories have been told for
generations.
Started around the campfires…now
moved to ipods.
New Zealand Stories:
Maori Legends
Nursery Rhymes
Famous People adventures
Family Tales that are passed down
through the generations
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7. “Stories”
If Stories are the large and small instruments
of meaning, of explanation, that we store in
our memories. How can we use this within
literacy to better engage and motivate our
students?
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8. Character Stories:
How we are inspired by, want to
recognise, finding meaning in our
relationship to:
Another person or even a pet.
Tell us more about ourselves…….
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9. Memorial Stories
Honouring and remembering people
who have passed is an essential part
of grieving.
The most difficult and painful to produce
= powerful results.
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10. Adventure Stories
Accomplishment stories
Achieving a goal (Link to learning)
Desire/struggle/realisation/classic story
Tend to be documentary style.
What was the event?
What was your relationship?
With what other people did you experience?
How did you feel?
Why did you learn from this event?
How did this event change your life?
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11. The Story about a place in my life.
Prior to 1900, 90% of the worlds
population was born, lived and died in
a 16km radius.
Our sense of place is the basis of
many profound stories.
There’s no place like home!
What is your mountain?
A sense of belonging…
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12. The Story about a Place in my life.
Your home, town, park, mountain, forest you love or
even a restaurant or bar.
How would you describe the place?
With whom did you share this place?
What general experiences do you relate to this
place?
Was there a defining experience at the place?
What lessons about yourself do you draw from
your relationship to this place?
If you have returned to this place how has it
changed?
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13. The Story about what you do
Many peoples life story is shaped by their jobs.
What is your profession or interest?
What experiences, interests, knowledge in your
previous life prepared you for this activity?
Was there an initial event that most affected your
decision to pursue this interest?
Who influenced you in your career?
How has your profession affected your life as a
whole? (family, friends, location)
What has been the highlight of your vocation?
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14. Discovery Stories
Process of learning.
Pleasure in illustrating how we
uncovered the facts to get at the truth.
Documenting a child’s
learning…..powerful
Whether fixing a bicycle or inventing a
new product.
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15. So get started…..
Storytelling is an open field…go for
it…
Categories are in no way sacrosanct.
Stories ask ourselves to reveal things
that make us feel vunerable so it is a
procrastinators paradise…….
Start collecting your artefacts….
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16. What do we have available?
and what
are the
key
elements
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17. Seven Elements
1. Point of View
2. Dramatic Question
3. Emotional content
4. The gift of your voice
5. The Power of the soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing
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18. Point of View
All good stories are told to make a point.
Describe a desire, a need or a problem that
must be addressed by a central character.
What are you as the author trying to
communicate.
Keep it simple. KIS
A good story touches you: a simple point
that you remember
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19. Emotional content
Get the audience emotionally engaged.
If the story reaches someone’s heart,
you have got them hooked.
Talk from the heart….
Go with your gut feeling
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20. The Gift of your voice
Craft the story with your own voice
Our voice is a great gift.
Put yourself into the story…..
Craft your words wisely.
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21. The Power of the Soundtrack
We are all experts in our favourite
music.
Select the music carefully to suit your
theme
Instrumental music be it classical, folk
or jazz is often suited better to a
digital story.
Combination of a voice and music
sound track is powerful.
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22. Economy
Concern is with
sequential composition.
Closure: recognising the pattern of
information being shown or described
to us in bits and pieces and
completing the pattern in our minds.
Be economic with the numbers of
photos and words….be succinct
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23. Pacing
The true secret of storytelling. (check
out our comedians!)
Rhythm of a story maintains interest
Changing pace is effective
Good stories breathe…even pace…
then fast…then slow
Trust your own sense of what
works…
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24. Timing….
A two to five minute story is about
right….(3 min is ideal)
Digital stories often start with the
pictures…lay them out…script them
Talk with others, bounce ideas, use
the story circle
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25. Storyboarding
A storyboard is a place to plan out a
visual story in two dimensions
Time: what happens first, next and so
on.
Interaction: how does the audio, voice
over, music interact with images.
Visual effects: what transitions,
animations, zoom effects be used.
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26. Making a storyboard
Get an A3 sheet and post-it notes
Create 5 or 6 rows horizontally across your
posterboard
Label each Post-it with our image and
compose your text in the bottom half of the
post-it. You can then move the post-it notes
around in the correct order.
Write on the sheet the transitions/Pan and
Zoom effect you wish to use.
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27. Digital Tools
Apple I-movie
• Sophisticated movie software
• Very powerful features
• Free with Apple software
• Flexibility of outputs: DVD or movie
file
• Pan and Zoom features
• plus a range of applications
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28. Digital Tools
• Digital camera
• Scanner
• Digital Projector
• Noise cancelling microphones
• Headsets
• Computers
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29. Sharing Digital Stories
Link from school intranet
E-Portfolio
DVDs burnt to send home
Create a hardcopy
School website
Blog/wiki
Pukeko Echo
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30. Summary:
Stories are important in our lives
Powerful as a reflective learning tool
Learner centered learning tool
Free software available
Link with digital native learner
Multimedia engagement
Easy to share with others
And use across literacy contexts
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