The use of rich digital media, otherwise known as digital storytelling, will enable students to actively participate in their education and connect with information in a way that traditional methods of learning simply cannot. This session will help facilitate a shift in the way teachers think about and use technology in the classroom, and about the tools used to assess students.

1. Digital Storytelling as an Assessment Tool
CUE Conference2011
Kristi Mead

2. Outline
Introduction/Overview of Digital Storytelling
Student Perspective
Instructional Practices and Strategies
Examples of Web 2.0 Tools for Authoring
Ideas for the Classroom
Sample Digital Stories Across the Curriculum
Assessment
Other Considerations
Q&A

3. Purpose & Objectives
Digital Storytelling allows for meaningful use of digital resources and
authentic content in the classroom.
Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling
as a presentation media.
Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids
in our classrooms.
Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to
research and tell stories of their own.
Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others.
Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and
learning objectives.
“Digital Storytelling is also a motivating strategy for involving students in their own
learning using 21st Century tools of engagement.”
Helen C. Barrett, Research Associate—Center for Advanced Technology in Education; University of Oregon

4. Student Perspective

5. An Effective Tool for Teachers
Stories created by teachers can serve:
as a lesson hook
as a way to integrate multimedia into
the curriculum
as a way to make difficult content more
understandable
to facilitate classroom discussion
Arnie Abrams, Ph.D.

6. 4 Student-centered Learning Strategies
Student engagement Reflection for deep Project-based
learning learning
Effective integration
of technology

7. 5 E Model
engage explore
explain elaborate
evaluate

8. Glogster

9. VoiceThread

10. Animoto

12. Capzles

13. Kerpoof Studio

14. Ideas for the Classroom
Be the character or Compare and contrast
historical figure and tell (e.g., King Tutankhamen)
the story as a first person
narrative (e.g., Lewis & Create a music video
Clark, Napoleon (e.g., Constitution, math
Bonaparte, Harry Potter). order of operations).
Be a talk show host
Lesson Plans Galore!
interviewing a character.

15. Not Just for Language Arts

16. Digital Storytelling in Math?

17. Yeah, but what about science?

18. Assessment
Give students options for creating
Use rubrics
Match to subject area standards
Writing component

19. What if I don’t know how to use the
Web 2.0 tools?
don‘t have to!

20. What else should I know?
The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
Part 1: Copyrights and Copying Wrongs
Part 2: Is Fair Use a License to Steal?
Part 3: Copyright Law and New Technologies
Part 4: Applying Fair Use to New Technologies
Part 5: District Liability and Teaching Responsibility

21. Anything else?
Start with script and storyboard
HAVE FUN!!!

22. Questions?

23. Resources
Digital Storytelling as a Deep Learning Tool
5 E Instructional Model
Glogster Edu
VoiceThread
Animoto
Prezi
Capzles
Kerpoof
Digital Storytelling Links by Dr. Arnie Abrams