A presentation designed for teachers to promote effective technology applications in teaching and learning. Focus is on digital story telling and ways of passing technology to students to engage them in expressing ideas and developing new literacies.

1. Session 3 (On-line): Digital Media Projects in Classroom: Digital Storytelling Making your teaching more effective through Technology

2. Growth of Digital Information Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click

5. Here is one of a very interesting interactive narrative: http://www.sbs.com.au/africatoaustralia/

10. Story Development -- Technical Add Background Music and Record Narration Add transitions Adjust Image Adjust Image

13. Delivering Digital Story

14. Assessing Digital Stories of Students Beneath story: storyboards, story maps , scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of writing “under the radar” …if it ain’t on the page… Final digital story is just tip of artifact/assessment iceberg… Source: Digital stories, http://www.jasonOhler.com

16. Photostory files Photostory Project File Final Video

19. Digital Story Task Work in your group to develop a digital story on a topic of your choice. Try to do it on something related to your teaching, perhaps something that you can use in your Lesson Plan assignment. Present your Digital Story in your group blog portfolio In your blog, also write short reflection about how you might use digital storytelling in your class Some interesting possibilities for digital storytelling in animated way is available on the Internet: e.g. http:// www.toondoo.com / or http ://goanimate.com /