Digital StorytellingTechnology That Makes Written

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What is Digital Storytelling

• Digital story telling combines the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia tools such as:

• graphics• audio• video animation• web publishing

• A digital story is a two to four minute digital video clip• most often told in first person narrative• recorded with your own voice• illustrated mostly with still images• with an optional music track to add emotional tone.

Educational Goals

• For Teachers:– Appeals to the diverse learning styles – Generates interest, attention, and motivation – Capitalizes on the creative talents of your students

• For Students:– Learn to use the Internet to research while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range

of content – Develop communications skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions,

construct narratives, and write for an audience– Increases computer skills using software that combines a variety of

multimedia including: • text• still images• audio• video• web publishing

    

Getting Started

• Download program: – Microsoft PhotoStory:

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

• Online tutorials – Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling:

www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/gettingstarted.htm

• Get your hands dirty

What do I put into a Digital PhotoStory?

• The Center for Digital Storytelling has identified Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling– A Point (of View)– A Dramatic Question– Emotional Content– The Gift of Your Voice– The Power of The Soundtrack– Economy– Pacing

How do I grade a Digital PhotoStory?

• Pay attention to the written product– Create a grading rubric specfic to the

written product that goes along with the PhotoStory

– 6 traits

• Create a Rubric for the PhotoStory– Sample rubric– RubiStar Home

Examples of PhotoStories

• Free Spirit by Julia, an 8th grade student • The Beginning by Charlene Paskoski - Created

as an introduction for 7th grade science students

• Twist on the Civil War, created by Emily Hobgood for 5th grade teachers at NPS as another view on the war between the states

• See Twist on the Civil War as a work in progress