Transcript Let's Get Digital

Let's Get Digital
Digital Storytelling Tools & Tips for K-12
Heather Beirne, Education Librarian
EKU Libraries
What is Digital Storytelling?
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• the art of telling stories with some mixture of
digital images, text, recorded audio
narration, video, and/or music to present
information on a specific topic (Univ. of
Houston)
• Brief (usually 2-10 minutes)
Digital Storytelling can be as
Simple or Complex
As You Want to Make It!
Types of Digital Stories
• Personal stories or tales (personal
narrative)
• Recounting of historical events
• Life in your community
• Work of fiction
• Book review, report, or booktalk
• Documentary
• A poem brought to life (try starting with a
fill-in-the-blank poem creator)
Why Digital Storytelling?
Why Digital Storytelling?
contd.
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• Empowering
• Dynamic
o Can be tied into all curricular areas and
deliver instructional content on many
different topics (Math, Science, Language
Arts, Social Studies, etc.)
When Teachers Create
Digital Stories can serve as:
• a Lesson Hook
• a Way to Integrate Multimedia into the
Curriculum
• a Way to Make Difficult Content More
Palatable
• a Way to Facilitate Classroom Discussion
When Students Create
• Skills
o Synthesis
o Research
o Writing
o Organization
o Technology
o Presentation
o Problem-solving
o Digital citizenship / copyright awareness
o Creativity
When Students Create contd.
• Literacies
o Digital
o Global
o Technological
o Visual
o Information
Most Important . . .
• It's Fun
• It Speaks Their Language
Don't Be Intimidated!
Tie to All Curricular Areas
How Students Experience
Digital Storytelling
Samples & Examples
Examples, cont'd
Examples, cont'd
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
• Examples in various curricular areas to
inspire you and your students
http://50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
• Examples created in different Web 2.0
formats (Simple or Complex!)
Storybird
http://storybird.com/
More Free Tools & Apps
(Web 2.0 based)
• Web 2.0-based:
o http://50ways.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
o Storybirdhttp://storybird.com/
o PicLits (www.piclits.com)
o Myths and Legends
(http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php)
o VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com/)
o Voki (http://www.voki.com/)
o Google Storybuilder
(http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/)
o Flicktion
More Free Tools & Apps
(Software, Free to Download)
• Software-based (Free Downloads):
o Windows Live Movie Maker 2.6 / Apple iMovie
o ezvid
o Microsoft Photo Story
o Comic Life (www.comiclife.com)
• Apps for iPad
o Story Kit
o Splice
Finding Copyright-Friendly
Media
• Creative Commons
(search.creativecommons.org)
o An opportunity to teach students about
digital citizenship, copyright awareness
• Teach students how to find images,
music, videos, etc., and how / why to
attribute their work as a precursor to
upper level research and attribution
Planning Process: Tips
• Storyboarding
7 Elements of Digital
Storytelling
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http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/7elements.html
Questions?
Tools & Apps You Have Used?
References
notanotherhistoryteacher.edublogs.org
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling (Univ. of Houston):
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
Center for Digital Storytelling. http://www.storycenter.org/
Photo Credits
Abacus: http://mrg.bz/34X3WG
Batteries: http://mrg.bz/OW2WnZ
Bird: http://mrg.bz/6YcJJc
Buttons: http://mrg.bz/A5mwDU
Clothesline: http://mrg.bz/5a5nn9
Crayons: http://mrg.bz/g9WHfs
Dog: http://mrg.bz/O0G5aM
Duck / Pig: http://mrg.bz/X0uL7N
Globe: http://mrg.bz/I490dX
Light Bulb: http://mrg.bz/SSIKtm
Microscope: http://mrg.bz/N3zhit
Puzzle: http://mrg.bz/2tlimy
Trivial Pursuit: http://mrg.bz/UtInIC
Watch Your Fingers: http://mrg.bz/fvzXlG
Contact Me
Heather Beirne
Education Librarian
[email protected]