Transcript 21st Century Digital Storytelling

21st Century Digital Storytelling
Sue Summerford
Lenawee Intermediate School District
Educational Technology Consultant
June 29, 2009
What is your favorite story?
Introduce yourself
Name
Where/who you teach
What is your favorite story?
What is Digital Storytelling?
What do kids really learn?
Interesting Book: The Director in the Classroom
by Nikos Theodosakis - talks about how filmmaking engages children in
the classroom.
http://www.thedirectorintheclassroom.com/profile4.php
Digital Storytelling
Develops visual and multimedia literacy in
students.
Provides students with a competitive and
compelling voice
Permits students to recapture creativity,
develop it and intensify it, apply it,
extend it . . .
Digital Storytelling
Helps students write more effectively by
permitting the visualization of the writing
Provides an authentic personal learning
experience
Teaches technology and information
literacy
What makes up a digital story?
Voice
Still frame imagery
Video
Music
Additional Elements
Black space
Text
Transitions
Title Slides
Digital Storytelling Process
Write
Write some more
Storyboard
Locate Resources
Create
Share
Ready for Viewing
or, the Beginning!
Storytelling As Old As Time
77% of the population are visual
learners
We will all respond – have different
“favorites” at the end of the workshop
file
Why Digital Stories?
Students today are different
Disconnect between the way students live
and the way they are being taught
Today’s students are no longer the people
our educational system was designed to
teach.
~Marc Prensky
Digital Natives
Digital Immigrants … the rest of us
Why Digital Storytelling?
Develops visual and multimedia literacy in
students.
Provides students with a competitive and
compelling voice
Permits students to recapture creativity,
develop it and intensify it, apply it,
extend it . . .
Why Digital Storytelling?
Helps students write more effectively by
permitting the visualization of the writing
Provides an authentic personal learning
experience
Teaches technology and information
literacy
Dealing With Today’s Students
Succinct, not PowerPoint generation
story
The narration is the story
Seven elements or story will sink
Ask permission to share – some are
private.
Personal = “Conference with me first.”
The Kiva, Sacred Story Circle
Renee
Writing Is Key
Do writing first, then voice track, then
bring in pictures
Students need to write “facts” because
they may not have lived long enough to
have personal narrative
“Buffalo” by Josiah
Have student “teams” – Cropping, Audio,
Web, Scanning, Music
What Is The Writer Trying To Say?
Cover eyes, listen to narrative.
Do these stories fit qualifications for highly
proficient according to Michigan Holistic
Scoring Guide?
Bring in pictures last!
“Nugget”
The Writing Process
I wrote you a long letter. I would have
written you a short letter but I didn’t
have the time.
~Mark Twain
Process or Product?
Writing vs. Technology Component
Pull out one “nugget” or one idea
“Carolina Dreaming” 2:36
Other Forms
Farther removed from the life of the
storyteller
documenting history and lives of
others
community and culture
taking a stand, making a point
classrooms and education
teach or explain
It’s the Process, not the Product
What do you want your audience to
take with them?
Seven Elements of Storytelling
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Gift of Their Voice
Power of the Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
Seven Elements
#1-3 Construction - Story Content:
Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
#4-7 Technical Elements:
Gift of Their Voice
Power of the Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
Identified by Center for Digital Storytelling
Tone, Effect
Picture Me Black - Tenth Grader, California
Voice?
Tone?
Effect?
The Closet
by Penny Harris & Pacita Luckey
Observe the seven elements
What do you notice?
Story Content:
Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Technical Elements:
Gift of Their Voice
Power of the Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
Rubric on Rubistar
Revise for elementary
Use “writing” rubric for the writing
All in a “nutshell”
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Use What You Have
Premiere expensive; Photoshop ELE
less expensive – go with what’s free
(picasa.google.com; picnik.com)
Need good piece of writing work at
beginning or movie will sink
We need lots of examples – personal
narrative, what did you notice?
“The Art Room”
Teachers need to experience the
struggle of the writing process again
Step-by-Step
Writing Process – double-spaced
Storyboarding (Atomic Learning
“Storyboard” free download) – use stick
figures, other free online storyboard sites
(i.e. graphic organizers - Inspiration,
Kidspiration gliffy.com; bubbl.us;)
Voiceover
Bring in images
Sequential
Music
Write the Narrative
defining moment
mentor, hero
scared
a first
embarrassing moment
pet
in trouble
trip
kindness
home
dream
family folklore
family names
pride, strength
determination
something lost or found
heirlooms
tradition
map of neighborhood
special item
mystery
Storyboard
Blueprint or map of finished product
Very important to plan before sitting at computer
Poster board and post-its
Paper template
Software – AtomicLearning, Inspiration
Organize Folders
Create folder with subfolders
soundtrack
video
images-raw
images-edit
voiceover
project
Create Voiceover
Can be very time-consuming
Need quiet room and stable microphone
Save each sentence/paragraph as separate file
(use naming convention)
Hands-on Activity: Storyboard
Alex’s Script
9 boxes on chart paper
Hint: 1st one = title, last one = credits
Can be complex or simplistic
Everyone has copy of script
Report out
Story Arc, Dramatic Question about
Nurturing
Aunt Angie’s Video
Publishing
“When the digital storytelling is
finished, you want your story to
be remembered for its soul, not
the bells and whistles.”
~Bernajean Porter