Ed Tech Week 4
Digital Storytelling: Reasons, Methods & Tools
The power of storytelling
The literary mind – the mind of stories and parables – is not peripheral but basic to thought. Story is the central principle of our experience and knowledge. Parable – the projection of story to give meaning to new encounters – is the indispensable tool of everyday reason. Literary thought makes everyday thought possible. This book makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking.
Mark Turner, The Literary Mind, www.markturner.org/lm.html
First a story to illustrate…
Fairytale of PGDE
ClipArt for Fairytale of PGDE from Purdue
Note: I said to myself if I couldn’t create this intro in 15 minutes it would not be worth showing …
It took 20 minutes to create and edit…(not including planning and scripting)…. I spent 5 full minutes selecting the music!
Sample stories & their uses
A few classroom examples:
1. PhotoStory: a. History revision resource: click hereb. Pupils’ ‘stories’ of science experiments Alternatives to PhotoStory are MovieMaker/ iMovie
2. PhotoPeach: Washington Trip – note use of quiz featureAlternative online story slide editors… see CogDogRoo
Where to get images...
• Save a PowerPoint slide as an image Save As… (other formats)
• Take your own photos!• Use student photos, drawings (link up with Art Dept.)
• Image bank on Scoilnet• Google Images… Flickr … etc.More suggestions here (for copyright-free images)
I asked you to…
Discuss the advantages of
getting pupils to create & share presentations
(Apart from impressing your supervisor! )
You said….
Feedback from the discussion…• Engagement – getting students involved• Quiz - Students can create their own questions – could work as closure at the
end of lesson• Visual Learners – combining media for different learners• Students have ownership – they have a sense of pride in their work• Multimedia resource for different topics – students work on different topics
and share them• Summary – could work for revision • Outside school – could work as a project about the school (TY students)• Work in groups and practise presentations • Encourages students to acquire knowledge for themselves and share it with
their peers• Show students that learning can be cooperative – doesn’t have to be
competitive
What the research says…
• Creativity, inventive & higher order thinking • Practicing real-world digital communication• Drawing on pupils’ range of intelligences• Deepening understanding - telling what you
know in a story deepens your own understanding of the known
• Affinity: creating meaningful engaging work and discovering themselves as successful learners
What the research says…
• Wider audience for the student work…• Greater accuracy, attention to detail & motivation• Responsibility & pride in producing good work. • Develop transferable skills– Collaboration/team skills– Self-expression and inter-personal development– Visual and media literacy (judgment, selecting &
presenting appropriate images, learning how to sequence a story/ a sequence of events).
– Technical skills set
PhotoStory
Advantages • Easy for pupils to learn• Available to download • Enables storyboarding,
scripting and creative use of music
Things to bear in mindFolder and file managementYour PhotoStory project file &
your finished video file are different file formats
• .wp3: your work in progress file (you can return to edit)
• .wmv or .avi your finished video file ( it is uneditable)
Ask a techie for help if you need more information to get this.
How to use Photostory Guide
PhotoPeach
Advantages• Easy to learn and use• Online – easy to edit, share,
embed• Contains range of music• Quiz feature – effective for
self-evaluation • Links to YouTube sound files
(could add your own narrative on YouTube and draw on this for voice over)
Things to bear in mind• No download or add own
music on basic package• Test to ensure PhotoPeach
is not blocked• Encourage pupils to be safe
– no names, contact details• Ensure if using YouTube link
that site is not blocked
Your task for Week 4
Create a simple story • Choose any theme• Use at least five images • Include captions • Make it run for least 2 mins• Choose from Photostory,
PhotoPeach or any of the tools listed on CogDogRoo
• Post your story to Moodle(or email to [email protected])
Just do it… I dare you! • Deadline:
– Tuesday 2nd Nov 2010
• Incentive… Win a digital camera!
Work with another person & win a digital camera each!
Notices
City West hotel 15th & 16th October
http://www.itlfestival.ie/
Wolfram Mathematica SeminarTuesday 26 October 2010 at
10am. NUI Maynooth Computer Room Experimental Physics Science Building Maynooth
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Upcoming events that may be of interest…
Check out WolframAlpha: Ask it anything!
References for further reading about Digital Storytelling
Some ideas: – Promotional video for the school (aimed at
6th class pupils)– Language class
• any curricular theme…• vocabulary items (sound and image) • verbs explained for younger learners
– The Grocer’s Apostrophe (spotting misspellings in public places)
– Advertisements– Life story of an artist, writer, singer – Timeline for an historical figure or building – Scientific processes – Field trip Report – Sports: Famous player / team or Moment in
Sporting history– My local area (History, language class…)– A Day in the Life: jobs, careers
Endless really… Looking forward to yours…
Free downloadable book on Digital story Telling by Silvia Tolisano
Silvia Tolisano’s Langwiches Blog
Larry Ferlazzo’s Best sites for Digital Storytelling
Educational Uses of Digital storytellinghttp://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
