Telling Our Stories

Kristin HokansonCFF Coach Upper Merion Area HShttp://theconnectedclassroom.org

“We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves.”

Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind

Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language

of computers, video games, instantaneous communication, and

the Internet.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants – Marc Prensky

Digital Natives

“Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling”

David Jakes

The Story

What is the message that you wish to convey to your audience?

What is the goal of your project?

Who is your audience?

http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/storymaking.cfm#storymapping

StorymappingFocusing on the story rather than

the technology.

Map essential elements:

conflict-resolution

character transformation

realization

http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/storymaking.cfm#storymapping

ACTIVITYQuick Story...

Use the storyboard to create a quick story using the pictures in the BOX.

You must use at least 8 out of the 10 pictures.

How many different stories did we come up with?

www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingStoryBoard.doc

It is important to think about how your selection of media: Text, Images, Video and Music affect the story you are trying to tell.

The Media

Three Minute Movie Sequence (from Jason Ohler's site)

* Movie Sequence #1* Movie Sequence #2* Movie Sequence #3

ACTIVITY

Software

There are a variety of softwares that can be used for Storytelling

Photo Story

Movie Maker

iMovie

Comic Life

Open SourceYou don’t need fancy software to create interesting stories

Jaycut

EyeSpot

Jumpcut

Cuts

Motionbox

YouTube Remixer: Adobe Premier Express

ACTIVITYLet’s Play with some simple open source software that you can use right away with your Students

ToonDoo

Voice Thread

Publishing Student Work

Online Digital Video Hosting Service for Educators

•TeacherTube

•Next Vista

Be sure to check resources to follow copyright