1. Digital
Storytelling

2. Agenda
• What is a digital story?
• How do you tell a digital story?
• What is digital storytelling’s role in
education?
• How can we use Digital Storytelling in
ITE context? (activity)

3. What is a digital story?
• A short, first person narrative created by
combining recorded voice, still and/or
moving images, and music or other sounds.

4. HOW DO YOU TELL A DIGITAL
STORY?

5. What is digital storytelling?
• A process of writing about a story, and
adding the multimedia elements of
voice, imagery, and music to create a
visual story.

6. STEP ONE:
Choose a Topic
(Central Theme),
Write a Script

7. Tasks involved in …
• STEP ONE: Choose a Topic (Central Theme), Write a Script
– Create a folder on the desktop where you can store all of the materials
related to your digital story. Select a topic for your digital story.
– Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform,
convince, provoke, question? Also, think about who the audience will be
for this story.
– Write the first draft of the script for your story. This script will serve as
the basis of the narration you will record later.
– Read what you have written make sure your script includes a clearly
articulated purpose and includes an identifiable point of view.
– Share your script with others and use their feedback to improve the next
version of your script.
– Repeat the process of getting feedback and revising the script, until you
are satisfied with the results.

8. STEP TWO:
Collect Resources Recorded voice
Image
Photos
Music

9. Tasks involved in …
• STEP TWO: Collect Resources
– Search for or create images that can be used in your story, including:
pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. - Save these resources
in your folder.
– Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and
sound effects. - Save these resources in your folder.
– Try to find other informational content, which might come from web sites,
word processed documents, or PowerPoint slides - Save these resources in
your folder.

10. STEP THREE:
Select Content,
Develop a Storyboard
Permits teller-of-tale to
determine the type of imagery
that will be associated with a
particular portion of the script.
The images/sound/music will
set your story and convey
emotions.

11. Tasks involved in …
• STEP THREE: Select Content, Develop a Storyboard
– Select the images you would like to use for your digital story.
– Select the audio you would like to use for your digital story.
– Select the text and any additional content you would like to use for your
digital story.
– Create a storyboard that provides a textual, visual and audio overview of
your plan for the digital story.

12. STEP FOUR:
Import, Record,
Finalize
Create story using software
available:
• iMovie (Mac)
• Windows Movie Maker (PC)
• PhotoStory (PC)

13. Tasks involved in …
• STEP FOUR: Import, Record, Finalize
– Import images into Windows Movie Maker or other similar software
program.
– Import audio into Windows Movie Maker.
– Set / Modify the number of images and/or image order, if necessary.
– Use a computer microphone and record the narration of your script using
Audacity or other similar software.
– Import the narration into Windows Movie Maker.
– Add music or other audio to your story.
– Finalize your digital story by saving it in a version that can be viewed.

14. STEP FIVE:
Demonstrate,
Evaluate, Share
Be proud of your creation!

15. Tasks involved in …
• STEP FIVE: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Share
– Show your digital story to your friends, family and colleagues.
– Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, and
used educationally.
– Teach your students or colleagues how to create their own digital story.
– Congratulate yourself for a job well done. 

16. Rule of thumb in creating digital story…
• Optimal digital story length would be 2 – 3 min
• Composed of 20 -25 images.
• Has a script length of one page A4, font type Arial 12,
double-spaced.
• Generally, use of video is discouraged as it adds another
layer of complexity to the to the process, and may be in
contention with tellers own recorded voice.
• Record voice-overs in 2-3 sentence chunks.
• Use noise reduction microphones.

17. DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND
EDUCATION

18. Everyone has a story to tell…
including our students…
Some stories are funny…
some can be painful…
but all are personal.

19. Differentiating Instruction
• Digital storytelling tap into students’
interests and specific learning profile
• It allow teachers to customize content
according to students' readiness with
background information and technological
proficiencies.

20. What do students learn?
• Digital storytelling develops visual and multimedia
literacy in students.
• Digital storytelling addresses the development of the
interpretation of digital media and the application of
that interpretation to a personal message or story

21. What do students learn?
• Digital storytelling provides students with a
competitive and compelling voice by
– enlarging the boundaries of who students can
communicate with and
– increasing the depth and power of that
communication.

22. What do students learn?
• Digital storytelling permits students to recapture
creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, and
extend it
• Digital storytelling helps students write more
effectively by permitting the visualization of the
writing, resulting in an additional level of perception
that extends the writing process

23. StraitsTimes
Writing classes a must for NUS freshmem…
Oct 31, 2011
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/St
Breaking ory/STIStory_728982.html
news at
6am today!

24. What do students learn?
• Digital storytelling provides an authentic personal
learning experience
– greatly improved motivation and end product
• Digital storytelling teaches elements of technology,
media and information literacy
– students use different computer applications and
must be conversant about locating and managing
visuals and video, as well as being able to do so in
the context of copyright and fair use

25. Why Digital Story?
• One of the ways to move from data to
understanding is to tell the story and make
the relevant connections
• Students sew the information together in an
organized way that forces students to think
about the entire body of information

26. Higher-Order Applications
• Digital video editing programs are higher-
order applications (more conceptually
difficult)
• The nature of digital videos overcomes the
limitations of more static demonstration
software that can be episodic and disjointed
(eg. Powerpoint presentation)

27. HOW CAN ITE LEVERAGE ON
DIGITAL STORYTELLING…

28. Activity
1) Get into your working group (LIS group; LTD group; ED
group; Adjunct Trainer group)
2) Discuss over tea (20 min) :
– LIS : How can library leverage DS for Information and Media
Literacy?
– LTD : How can we leverage DS in our various technology projects
to augment information and technology literacy among students
and teachers?
– ED : What is the role of DS in our teacher training program; and
how can we leverage its affordance?
– Adjunct Trainer : How can we leverage DS to encourage student
motivation, communication, etc?
3) Return to share

29. Results of our collective intelligence 
LIS
•Knowledge sharing (information/media literacy)
•Teaching tool (presenting content)
•Journey in acquisition of information literacy
•Student competition in digital story
LTD
•As Instructional template
•TTS (Student write out the script)
–eg,. Topic on Augmented reality
•Rapping (mp3)

30. Results of our collective intelligence 
ED
•Alternative Assessment tool (reflection – digital story
rather than writing)
AdjT
•Voice for students who may not have the courage to
speak up

31. SOURCES FOR RESOURCES

32. Sources for Digital Stories…
• Center for Digital Storytelling
– http://www.storycenter.org
• DigitalStories.org
– http://www.digitalstories.org
• The Art of Telling Digital Stories
– http://digitales.us/
• Digital Storytelling Asia
– http://digitalstorytellingasia.com/showcase/

33. Sources for Music
• http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
• http://findsounds.com/
• http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
• http://www.garageband.com/charts
• http://music.podshow.com/
• http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
• http://www.archive.org/details/audio
• http://naturesongs.com/
• http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
• http://www.hpol.org/

34. Sources for image / video
• http://www.mamma.com/
• http://www.singingfish.com
• http://www.iconfinder.com

35. Check list to get started
• Hardware • Software
 Digital cameras for still  Video editing software
and video images • Movie Maker
 Scanners • Photostory
 Microphones • iMovie
• Sennheiser (noise canceling  Word processing
microphones)
software
 Computers with internal
or external video/audio  Image editing software
conversion interface  Internet access
devices

36. Thank you!
Glad to take any questions you may have…

37. Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
Elements Description
1. Point of View What is the main point of the story and what is the
perspective of the author?
2. A Dramatic Question A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be
answered by the end of the story.
3. Emotional Content Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful
way and connects the story to the audience.
4. The Gift of Your Voice A way to personalize the story to help the audience
understand the context.
5. The Power of the Music or other sounds that support and embellish the
Soundtrack storyline.
6. Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without
overloading the viewer.
7. Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it
progresses.
Source :http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/7elements.html

38. • Literatures about DS
– http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/file/view/Tools+for+the+Mind.pdf
– http://www.bobsedulinks.com/downloads/digitalstorytellingarticle.
pdf
– http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/powerpoint.html
– http://www.jakesonline.org/dstory_ice.pdf