digital storytelling presentation
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Learn how digital stories can enhance your curriculum. Teachers can use this to have students narrate original stories, conduct interviews, create biographies, describe historical events, and in many other ways.TRANSCRIPT
Digital Storytelling
Presented by:Pam Friedman
Westfield School District
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. (Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association)
Digital Stories in the Classroom Digital stories can be used in
almost every area of the curriculum:
Some ideas are:Biographies
Science ExperimentsFictional Story or Poem
Personal ExperienceInterview a relative
Historical Events
Student Samples
JFK – My HeroSeptember 11th
My Poppy
Getting Started: The Story Idea Original script: fictional story,
poem, personal experience, relatives’ stories
Prompts: a special vacation, someone who inspires you, a subject in school
Research: a topic, biography, or event
A visual start: find an image that moves you and build a story around that image
The Script
Pre-write using a word processing document
Use bullets For each bullet, suggest an
image or images that may work Think visually!
Recording
Use a good sound recorder or the built-in microphone on your computer
Make sure the room is relatively quiet
Remind students to speak slowly and clearly using emotion
Record using either Sound Recorder or Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Software
Most computers have standard software that can be used
PCs: Windows MovieMaker Mac: iMovie Several good software programs
can be purchased for classrooms:
Adobe Premiere Power Director
Images/Videos Copyright issues Document sources by title and URL United Streaming:
www.unitedstreaming.com Flickr Creative Commons
http://flickr.com/creativecommons Our Media
http://ourmedia.org/learning-center/images/free-photo-sites
World Imageshttp://worldart.sjsu.edu/
Resources There are numerous websites
containing resources and information about Digital Storytelling.
Tech Head Stories - http://www.tech-head.com/dstory.htm
Another great resource for digital stories is United Streaming (our school district has a subscription): www.unitedstreaming.com
Memory’s Voices – one of the best resources on the net http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
Contact Information Pamela Friedman is the Instructional
Technology Specialist at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, NJ and was selected as a Google Certified Teacher in February 2007.
Email: [email protected] Website:
www.westfieldnjk12.org/computerlab Digital Stories: Click Here Blog: http://friedman-techtalk.blogspot.com Google Certified Teacher:
http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/pam-friedman