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1. Enhancing Teaching and Learning
Through the Use of Digital Story
The University of Southern Mississippi

2. Overview
 What
is digital storytelling
 Why using digital storytelling in education
Learning theories
 Current teaching and learning practice
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 How
to create digital stories
Procedures
 Tools
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 Our
applications
 Lessons learned

3. What is Digital Storytelling
Digital Storytelling
 uses new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell
real-life stories
 is the practice of combining narrative with digital
content, including images, sound, and video, to create
a short movie, typically with a strong emotional
component.
 can be instructional, persuasive, historical, or reflective.
 is normally 2-5 minutes long
 can be effectively applied to nearly
any subject

4. Why using digital storytelling in
education?
 Facilitate the convergence of four
student-centered learning
strategies: student engagement,
reflection for deep learning, projectbased learning, and the effective
integration of technology into
instruction
--- Dr. Barrett

5. Why using digital storytelling in
education?
Learning theories
 Constructionism (Papert, 1993)
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“Learning by making” sharable “public entity”
 Narrative paradigm (Fisher, 1985; 1989)
“man is in his action and practice, as well as in
his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal”
 All forms of human communication can be
seen fundamentally as stories.
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6. Why using digital storytelling in
education?
Current teaching and learning practice
 Educators at all levels can use Digital Storytelling in
many ways:
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introducing new materials
helping students learn to conduct research, synthesize
large amounts of content, gain expertise in the use of
digital communication and authoring tools,
helping students organize their ideas as they learn to
create stories for an audience, and
presenting their ideas and knowledge
in an individual and meaningful way.
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/goalsobjectives.htm

7. Why using digital storytelling in
education?
Research has found:
DS helped students organize and express their
idea and knowledge in an individual and
meaningful way (robin, 2005)
DS enhanced employability portfolio
development (Morehead, et al, 2007)
DS increased social skills for children with
disabilities (More, 2008)
DS increased reading comprehension (Royer &
Patricia, 2009)

8. Why using digital storytelling in
education?
Five advantages of using digital storytelling in
education (Gils, 2005)
1. Provide more variation than traditional in current
practice
2. Personalize learning experience
3. Make explanation or practicing of certain topics
more compelling
4. Create real life situations in an easy and cheaper
way
5. Improve the involvement of students in the
process of learning

9. When is Digital Story Telling
Whenever, a teacher wants to
 Enhance student learning
 Enhance student motivation
 Enhances student engagement
 Build student technology skills

10. Procedures
 Make your plan: define your purposes,
analyze your audience, and decide the
tools to be used
 Write an initial script, plan an
accompanying storyboard.
 Collect/create images and music
 Create your digital story
 Evaluate/modify your story
 Publish your story

11. Tools
 Microsoft Photo Story 3
 still images and audio. Free but requires Microsoft
Windows XP Operating System.
 Windows Movie Maker
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still images, video clips, and audio. Windows only. Free
with Microsoft Windows Operating System.
 Apple iMovie
 still images, video clips, and audio. OS X Macintosh only.
Free with Apply OS x Operation System

12. Our applications
 Graduate level courses
Computers in Education (online course)
 Networks in Education
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 Undergraduate level courses
Computer Applications in Education
 Mandarin Chinese (Second year)
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13. Some Examples from Classroom
 Family stories
 Teaching science
 Teaching social study
 Create a reflective tutorial

14. Lessons learned
 Creative challenges
Decide on a topic
 Content matches graphics and music
 Voice synchronizing with story
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 Technical challenges
Large file size
 Uploading speed
 Fizzy pictures
 Wrong format
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15. Resources
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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/default.htm
What is Digital Storytelling?
http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html
Digital Storytelling from Photobus
http://www.photobus.co.uk/index.php?id=2
The Art of Digital Storytelling
http://digitales.us/files/digitalstorytellingarticle.pdf
A Multilevel Approach to Using Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
http://discovery.coe.uh.edu/7358-f07/class1/multilevelapproach.htm
The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
http://discovery.coe.uh.edu/7358-f07/class1/Educ-Uses-DS.pdf
The Power of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
http://www.edutopia.org/power-digital-storytelling-classroom
How To: Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom
http://www.edutopia.org/node/1418