digital storytelling digital stories in the classroom keystone 2007

Digital Storytelling

Digital stories in the classroomKeystone 2007

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

Digital stories in the classroomNew Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, & Creativity(Corwin Press, August, 2007)

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

MATERIALS

1. Tell, watch stories some…2. Story core, story map…3. You create a story map…4. Peer pitch it…5. Develop media lists…6. Assessment…7. DST talking points…

Today’s plan:

•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?

Digital native info landscape…

Then…

Digital native info landscape…

(Prensky)

Then… Now…

•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their own tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?

What’s digital storytelling about?•Tech serving story,

and not vice versa…

•What happens when give bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

•Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

•Being hero of own, life learning story…

What’s digital storytelling about?•Tech serving story,

and not vice versa…

•What happens when give bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

•Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

•Being hero of own, life learning story…

What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good!

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day

What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day

• Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback

Teacher more important now…

Teacher more important now…• Leave clicks, tricks to

kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback

AssessmentReason teachers don’t require more new media projects from students??

Not comfortable assessing new media…

So, let’s help them…

Role of media grammar in new media…

Beneath story: storyboards, story maps, scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of writing “under the radar”…if it ain’t on the page…

A digital story is:

• Just tip of iceberg

• Portfolio unto itself

Assessment

William Tell and the Young Girl Who Could Fix Computers…”

Problem(tension) Solution

(resolution)

Transformation

Story Core

Trans-formation

Nature of transformation?

8 Levels of character transformation…1. Physical/kinesthetic - strength, dexterity,

realizing potential

2. Inner strength - courage, realizing potential

realizing potential

3. Emotional - maturity, realization

4. Moral - conscience, realizing “right”

realizing potential

5. Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization, revelation

6. Social - realizing responsibility

realizing potential

7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation

realizing potential

7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation

Bloom’s taxonomy as transformation…Level Kind Explanation

#6 Evaluation Character assesses situation, critiques and/or defends idea, person; evaluates a situation in order to respond to it…

#5 Synthesis Character pieces together parts to form new understanding of situation…

#4 Analysis Character deconstructs a situation, distinguishes among options, plans or organizes something, compares and contrasts different things…

#3 Application Character discovers, constructs or changes something; applies understanding to a new situation…

#2 Comprehension Character explains, interprets, predicts something…

#1 Knowledge Character knows, remembers, describes something…

Watch, discuss: Rolling ball Hannah Piano Good dad Life w/o air travel

- Learning -

Story Core for learning-

Quest story question story…

InquiryDiscover

Make students heroes of their own learning stories…

Story Core

Putting story core to work:

Story mapping

Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Traditional story boarding

Angle:

Movement:

Audio:

Angle:

Movement:

Audio:

Technical direction

Angle: wide

Shot: side of bus, going to school

Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to Learn)

Angle: wide, zoom in

Shot: front of school, students entering

Movement: stationary

Audio: music, cont.

Technical directionNone - ambient happy school bus noise

Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter

Story board for “We Won’t Leave School”

Technical direction

http://www.csupomona.edu/~wcweber/325/storybd.htm

Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter

Script, voice over narration:

“Once upon a time there were children so in love with school they refused to leave when summer vacation came. They demanded to keep learning. ‘More math problems!’ they cried.”

None - voice over with ambient happy school, bus noise

Story board for “We Won’t Leave School”

Angle: wide

Shot: side of bus, going to school

Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to Learn)

Technical direction

1. Get a story idea

NO!2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

New story planning process

1. Get a story idea

2. Develop story mapNew!

Key concept: Story mapping vs. boarding…

…the flow of emotion vs. the flow of motion…

(Dillingham, 2003; modified Ohler 2005)

VPS + transformation = quest

Transformation

(resolution)

Beginning End

Story Core

Story Core within the story map

(Ohler, 2005)

Transformation

(resolution)

Beginning End

Story Map

(Ohler, 2005)

Transformation

(resolution)

- challenge - opportunity

- obstacle- goal

-meet challenge

-realize opportunity

-overcome obstacle

-reach goal

Ordinary life…

“the call to adventure…” closure

“Life” resumes…

Beginning End

Story Map

(Ohler, 2005)

Transformation

(resolution)

- obstacle- goal

-meet challenge

-overcome obstacle

-reach goal

Ordinary life…

“the call to adventure…” closure

Beginning End

Story Map (VPS)- Hannah’s story?

(Dillingham, 2003, with Transformation (Ohler, 2005)

Many maps…

Aristotle - Story Map/Diagram

complication

peripeteia

Aristotle

(reversal of fortune)

tying of the knot untying

anagnorisis(transformation, realization)

- - Middle - -

(denouement)

Beginning

From THE POETICS by Aristotle

Freytag’s story pyramid

("untying the knot”)

From DIE TECHNIK DES DRAMAS by Freytag, 1863

Inciting incident Resolution

Joseph Campbellcall to adventure

challenges

problems

rescue

resolution

resurrection

moral, lessons learned, changed habits

threshold of adventure

transformation

helpers

flight

From HERO HAS A THOUSAND FACES by Campbell

Breneman

Minor climaxes

Quick ending after climax

From ONCE UPON A TIME - A STORYTELLING BOOK by Breneman and Breneman

From STORY by McKee

Bringing life back into balance…watch “Adaptation”…

Treasure map

Less structure, more adaptable… begin here or evolve into this approach…?

reversal

smaller conflict

relatively more significant conflict

steep resolution

medium gradual rise to adventure

sharp change

smoother change

start here…

end here…

Adapt-a-map

by Michael Christenson, Media Literacy class, 2005

From maps to media development process…

Pre-production Production

Post-production

Performance, distribution

•make media list

•gather raw media components

•begin editing raw media components& creating new ones

•finish creating, editing media components (voice-over, music, pics, video, scans, etc.)

•assemble media into final product

•formative review

•mix, add transitions, titles

•add credits & citations

•final review•final editing•export final

product into readable format

•showing in class, community

•Web posting•local TV?•local

festival?•DVD?•notifying

others

- MEDIA PRODUCTION PROCESS -Story planning

•ideas•story

storming•story map•peer

pitching•scripting,

writing•story-

boarding•telling/re-

telling

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

- MEDIA PRODUCTION PROCESS -

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

•make ingredients list

•gather, buy ingredients

•begin making cake components

•frost

•decorate

•add candles

•credits, citations for those who helped

•cut the cake

•distribute, share

•seconds anyone?

•take leftovers to work

•share recipe

•ideas

•brain-storm

•decide on cake

•get recipe, directions

•finish components (dough, frosting, etc.)

•taste test

•assemble cake into final product

•bake, let cool

Post-production

Cake planning

- CAKE PRODUCTION PROCESS -

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Post-production

•make media list

•formative review

others

•ideas•story

writing•story-

telling

Story planning

Narrative development process

Digital storytelling thinkpointsWhat’s it all about…?

DST Thinkpoints: Backwards design DAOW of literacy Combine story,

critical thinking Assess everything Rule of 80/20

Transformation?

Problem (tension)

Solution (resolution)

Ordinary life…

closure

Start your story anywhere…

Middle(conflict, growth)

Build story around a key transformation you want to illustrate…

‘Problem/ resolution scenario you want to flesh out? Start here…

I rarely start here…

Do you have a “moral” you want students to understand? Start here and work backwards…

Opportunities or challenges for your students? Start here…

(Dillingham, 2003; modified, Ohler 2005)

- obstacle- goal

-meet challenge

-overcome obstacle

-reach goal

Beginning

DAOW of literacy…

Digital storytelling blends a number of literacies…

Including MEDIA LITERACY…

(4thR)

New frontier…

= new pedagogies…

Story thinking Analytic thinking+

Beneath story: storyboards, story maps, scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of writing “under the radar”…if it ain’t on the page…

A digital story is:

• Just tip of iceberg

• Portfolio unto itself

Assessment

AssessmentReason teachers don’t require more new media projects from students??

Not comfortable assessing new media…

So, let’s help them…

Role of media grammar in new media…

Digital story rubric1. Story2. Voice3. Length, pacing, economy4. Media use5. Technique, media

First 80%Last 20%

glitz, fixing every little thing…

the production wall

- project completion -

Hitting the production wall

Rule of 80/20

First 80%Last 20%

My advice?

Forget the last 20%!!!

- project completion -

Rule of 80/20

Media grammar…

www.jasonOhler.com

Media grammar•Most important question: are you assigning an essay or a poem?

•Role of audience…

•Bump and squint…

Bump… (huh..?)

Squint…? (eyes, ear, mind)

Confused or distracted…?

Story clear, supported, focused, prioritized, no bird walking?

Use of music… (show three “music” movies)

Media grammar

Steady camera…

Clear audio… (ear squinting?)

Well-mixed audio…

Clear, effective lighting… (eye squinting?)

Subject-oriented shot…

Relevant background…

Unless on purpose!

Media grammar-video

Go tell your story!

www.jasonOhler.comThank you…

Go tell your story!

www.jasonOhler.comThank you…

Report/ DocumentaryStory

Two kinds of thinking…

Where…? ?

Story thinking vs. Analytic thinking

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