Presentation slides for ETAQ May Seminar, 2012.

1. Alice in Australia:
Making Digital Stories
Kelli McGraw – QUT
Slides available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/kellimcgraw

2. Tweet it!
• I am @kmcg2375
• ETAQ is @ETAQLD
• Tag your ETAQ event tweets with #ETAQ

3. What is your story?
To the person sitting next to you:
• What is your name?
• What school are you from, or what is
your role?
• Is digital storytelling popular at your
school? How do you know?

4. What is Inanimate Alice?
Do have a friend like Brad?
you
Which way is the right way?
What would you do in Alice's shoes?

5. What is ‘Digital Storytelling’?
Where can I find some digital
stories?
How can Alice in Australia
be used?
Why is it important for
students to MAKE digital stories?

6. What is
‘Digital
Storytelling’?

7. Story-telling

8. DIGITAL Twitter = newest tweet at top
(Therefore read bottom-to-top)
Story-telling

9. …more ‘types’

10. Digital fiction types:
Digital Digital Digital Digital ‘Born
Blended
Replic- Embell- Transfor- Revers- Digital’
Stories
ations ishments mations ionings Fiction

11. Where can I find
some Digital
Stories?

12. Some ‘Born Digital’ stories
• Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2:
http://collection.eliterature.org/2/index.html
• two five three (interactive novel):
http://www.ryman-novel.com/
• Telescopic text (hypertext):
http://www.telescopictext.com/
• Shopping List (hypertext):
http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/hw/groceries/

13. http://www.inanimatealice.com/

14. http://inanimatealice.edu.au/

15. Alice in Australia
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/stories/1_tilly_and_brad/

17. How can Alice
in Australia
be used?

18. Digital Resources
• Active online support
community
• Support from Education
Services Australia
• EQ ‘Learning Place’
resources underway

19. Digital Assets

20. Alice in
Australia
&
‘SNAPPY’
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/

21. Why is it
important for
students to make
digital stories?

22. Create – Design – Produce
Making digital stories develops…
• Higher order thinking e.g. creativity/design
• Digital literacy
• Problem solving skills via project work
• Narrative ‘voice’
• Awareness of imagery & symbolism

24. Screen shot of the ‘Snappy’ story creator

25. References & Links
Inanimate Alice episodes 1-4:
http://www.inanimatealice.com/
Alice in Australia & ‘Snappy’ download:
http://inanimatealice.edu.au/
Inanimate Alice trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5_kSTsub8
Kelli’s digital storytelling resources:
http://kmcgraw.wetpaint.com/page/Digital+Storytelling