creating your story: scriptwriting & storyboards
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Objective To evaluate the process and pedagogy supporting the use
of storytelling through podcasts and vodcasts
What is podcasting?
• WillowCast #37• WillowCast #34
Tell me and I forget.Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.~ Benjamin Franklin
How do Student’s Podcast?
‣ Research or summarize activities
‣ Cite appropriately
‣ Write Script
‣ Produce/Publish for the World!
‣ Speaking
‣ Reading
‣ Creative Commons
Process in the classroom
• Write the story script
Establish the story core
• Use technology to pull it all together
Create the digital production
Digital Storytelling and Literacy
http://www.jasonohler.com
Ohler, J. (2008). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to LITERACY, LEARNING & CREATIVITY, CA: Corwin
Daniel Pink
Agricultural Age (farmers)
Industrial Age (factory workers)
Information Age (knowledge workers)
Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future. NY: Riverhead Books
Writing the Script Writing conventions
InformalExamples:
Poor: “The campus had three inches of precipitation last night”
Better: “The campus had three inches of rain last night”
PaceSlow – boring or tension? Fast – difficult to understand?
Formatting the ScriptMulti - Column Script (storyboard)
Left columnRight columnRecommended for Video
Screenplay format Linear fashionRecommended for podcasting
Podcasting Examples & Resources
NPR
GarageBand
Audacity
Storyboard Resources:
http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard
University of Houston
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/storyboarding.html