5. What is Digital Storytelling?
“Digital storytelling is the modern
expression of the ancient art of storytelling.
Digital stories derive their power by weaving
images, music, narrative and voice together,
thereby giving deep dimension and vivid
color to characters, situations, experiences,
and insights.”
Rule, Leslie “Digital Storytelling”
Digital Storytelling Association, 3/5/09
Http://electonicportfolios.org/digistory
6. New Media Demand New Literacies
Because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, widely
distributed new media tools, being literate
now means being able to read, write and
listen in a number of new media forms,
including sound, graphics, and moving images
in addition to text
7. Skills Skills Skills!!!
• Research Skills: Documenting the story, finding and
analyzing pertinent information;
• Writing Skills: Formulating a point of view and developing a
script;
• Organization Skills: Managing the scope of the project, the
materials used and the time it takes to complete the task;
• Technology Skills: learning to use a variety of tools, such as
digital cameras scanners, microphones and multimedia
authoring software;
8. Skills Skills Skills!!!
• Presentation Skills: Deciding how to best present the story to an
audience;
• Interview Skills: Finding sources to interview and determining
questions to ask;
• Interpersonal Skills: Working within a group and determining
individual roles for group members;
• Problem-Solving Skills: Learning to make decisions and overcome
obstacles at all stages of the project, from inception to completion;
and
• Assessment Skills: Gaining expertise critiquing their own and
others’ work.
9. Developing the Story: A Five Step Process
Story Pre- Post- Performance,
Production
Planning production production distribution
• Ideas • Make media • Finish • Mix, add • Showing in
• Story list creating, transitions, class,
storming • Gather raw editing media titles community
• Story map media components • Add credits • Peer
• Peer pitching components (voice-overs, and citations feedback
• Scripting, (save in one music, video, • Final review • Web posting
writing folder) pictures) • Final editing • DVD
• Story- • Begin editing • Assemble • Export final • Submit to
boarding raw media media into product into contests
• Telling & re- components final product readable,
telling & creating • Formative transferable
new ones review format
Source: Ohler, Jason. (2008). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning,
and Creativity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
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11. Digital Storytelling Ideas
PSA - public
“Priceless” Documentaries
service
commercials / Docudramas
announcement
Breaking news
or historic “you Personal
Virtual tour
are there” narrative
broadcast
“Movie trailer”
Dramatizing Story told from
for a book,
pieces of the perspective
article, historical
literature of an object
era, event
Parodies of Reenactment / Story
famous Living history / constructed
television and Oral history / from still
movie scenes Historical interview images
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12. Flickr – Tell a Story in 5 Frames
http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157626897112901/
