Digitial Storytelling in Curriculum by Hongying Chen at ASU Post-ACTFL meeting on Jan 17th, 2010

1. Digital Storytelling in CurriculumHongying Chen | hongying.chen@gmail.com

2. What is Digital Storytelling? Use multimedia tool, including graphics, audio, video, animation to tell a story

3. Why Digital Storytelling?

5. Examples: Teaching (credit to: Joanne shang 徐佳音） Students' project example (credit to: Julia Hongwei Kessel and her students)

6. Characteristics: It's powerful It's student-centered Showcase student's creativity

7. Things to remember: The objective is to learn Chinese language by using digital storytelling, not to create a fancy project by few or very limited language skill

8. Rubric Project Storyboard: 20' Pictures and colors: 10' Title page and credits: 10' Characters or concepts: 10' Sentences and grammar: 10' Humor and depth: 10' Background music: 10' Pronunciation and intonation 10'

9. Sample projects Clothing Garage Sale Project (name, size, color, original price, sale price, how old) Weather Report Project (China's location, city, four seasons, etc.)

10. Thanks!