A talk and hands-on demonstration with digital storytelling.

1. Digital Storytelling
Dr. Sara Stetson

2. Agenda
•What is Digital Storytelling?
•Connections to the Common Core
•Some of my favorite tools
•Try it yourself!

4. Historical Themes and Events

5. Personal Narrative

6. Stories That Inform or Instruct

7. Story Corps Example

8. 7 Key Elements

9. Voice

10. Emotion

11. Sound
Track

12. Point
of
View

13. Big
Ideas

14. Economy

15. Pace

16. (Adapted from Alan Levine, 2014)

17. • Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently
and proficiently.
• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development;
summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
• Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the
course of a text.
Standards: Reading

18. • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to
interact and collaborate with others
• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and
information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization,
and analysis of content.
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective
technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
Standards: Writing

19. Standards: Speaking and Listening
• Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and
collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing
their own clearly and persuasively.
• Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
• Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can
follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express
information and enhance understanding of presentations.
• Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating
command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

20. Idea
Research
Storyboard
Collect
resources
Put
together
Share
Feedback
(Adapted from Samantha Morra)

30. Import Resources to a Tool

31. Editing

32. WeVideo

33. Moovly

34. VoiceThread: A UDL Model

35. Crazy Talk
Puppeteering

37. Photostory Tutorial

38. Photostory Tutorial

39. Four
Slide
Story
Challenge