Transcript Digital Storytelling -- Evaluating and Publishing

Digital Storytelling
-- Evaluating and
Publishing
Dr. Helen Barrett
Themes
Aligning digital stories to
standards
Evaluating digital stories - Rubric
Publishing stories online
CIC Digital Storytelling Project
http://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorysite/
Aligning Digital Stories
to Standards
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/alignment.ht
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Standards Addressed
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/alignment.html
21st Century Skills
National Educational Technology
Standards for Students (NETS)
National English Language Arts
Standards
Assessing Digital Stories
Rubric
Simple Checklist
(David Brear, Canadian Middle School teacher)
From my Digital Storytelling web
page:
Scroll to the
bottom of the
page
Elements of a Digital Story
1.
Overall Purpose of the Story
2.
Narrator’s Point of View
3.
A Dramatic Question (or Questions)
4.
Choice of Content
5.
Clarity of Voice
6.
Pacing of the Narrative
7.
Meaningful Soundtrack
8.
Quality of the Images
9.
Economy of the Story Detail
10.
Good Grammar and Language Usage
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
The Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, CA, has defined seven elements for
creating effective and interesting multimedia stories.
Constructing a story is not a simple process that follows a recipe or prescribed formula.
These elements require consideration for every story and determining the balance each
element occupies in the story can take a lot of thinking and re-thinking.
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The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
A Point (of View)
Stories are told to make a point and should not be presented as a recitation of mere facts.
Define the premise of your story so that all parts can serve to make the point. Consider
your audience and direct the point to them.
Rubric - Point of View - Purpose
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Establishes
a purpose
early on and
maintains a
clear focus
throughout.
Establishes
a purpose
early on and
maintains
focus for
most of the
story.
There are a
few lapses
in focus,
but the
purpose is
fairly clear.
It is
difficult to
figure out
the purpose
of the story.
Rubric - Point of View Awareness of Audience
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Strong
awareness of
audience in the
design. Students
can clearly
explain why they
felt the
vocabulary,
audio and
graphics chosen
fit the target
audience.
Some awareness
of audience in
the design.
Students can
partially explain
why they felt the
vocabulary,
audio and
graphics chosen
fit the target
Some awareness
of audience in
the design.
Students find it
difficult to
explain how the
vocabulary,
audio and
graphics chosen
fit the target
audience.
audience.
Limited
awareness of the
needs and
interests of the
target audience.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
A Point (of View)
A Dramatic Question
You want to capture your audience’s attention at the beginning of the piece and hold their
interest throughout. Typically you want to pose the dramatic question in the opening lines
and resolve it in the closing lines.
Rubric - Dramatic Question
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Realization is
dramatically
different from
expectation.
Realization
differs
noticeably
from
expectation.
Realization
barely differs
from the
expectation.
Realization
and
expectation
do not differ.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
A Point (of View)
A Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Emotional content can help hold your audiences attention. The images, effects, music
and tone of voice all lend to contributing emotion to the piece. Try to keep the elements
consistent with the emotion of the moment.
Rubric - Soundtrack - Emotion
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Music stirs a
rich
emotional
response that
matches the
story line
well.
Music stirs a
rich
emotional
response that
somewhat
matches the
story line.
Music is ok,
and not
distracting,
but it does not
add much to
the story.
Music is
distracting,
inappropriate,
OR was not
used.
Rubric - Emotional Content
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Audience is Audience is
deeply and emotionally
emotionally engaged.
engaged.
Audience
lapses in
emotional
engagement
.
Audience
has little to
no
emotional
engagement
.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
A Point (of View)
A Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
The Gift of Your Voice
Most likely the first time you heard your recorded voice you couldn’t stand the way it
sounded. And you still can’t. Suggestion….get over it! Your voice is a great gift and even
thought you don’t like to hear it, others do. If you “read” your script your audience will
not know how to react. Take time to learn and practice your script so you can speak in a
conversational voice. Record several takes and select the best one. Trust that your
audience will think it is perfect.
Rubric - Voice - Consistency
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Voice
quality is
clear and
consistently
audible
throughout
the story.
Voice quality
is clear and
consistently
audible
throughout
the majority
(85-95%) of
the story.
Voice quality Voice quality
is clear and
needs more
consistently
attention.
audible
through some
(70-84%)of
the story.
Rubric - Voice - Conversational
Style
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Uses a
conversational style
throughout.
Uses a
conversational style
the majority
(85-95%) of
the time.
Uses a
conversational style
most (7084%) of the
time.
Presentation
style is
primarily
monologue.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
A Point (of View)
A Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
The Gift of Your Voice
The Power of The Soundtrack
Music is a big plus to a digital story. The right music can set the story in time and can
convey emotion. Play music behind an image and a specific emotion is generated.
Change the music behind the same image and an entirely different emotion is
experienced. Sound effects can add tension and excitement to a piece, but be careful,
they can be a distraction too.
Rubric - Soundtrack - Originality
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
All of the
music is
original.
Most (over
half) of the
music is
original.
Some of the None of the
music is
music is
original.
original.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The 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
A compact, fast moving digital story will contain only those elements necessary to move
the audience from beginning to end. We know that our brains are constantly filling in
(from our own experiences) details from suggestions made by sights and sounds. Don’t
give every detail to clarify your story, let your audience fill in some of the blanks.
Rubric - Economy
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
The story is told
with exactly the
right amount of
detail
throughout. It
does not seem
too short nor
does it seem too
long.
The story
composition is
typically good,
though it seems
to drag
somewhat OR
need slightly
more detail in
one or two
sections.
The story seems
to need more
editing. It is
noticeably too
long or too short
in more than one
section.
The story needs
extensive
editing. It is too
long or too short
to be interesting.
Rubric - Images
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Images create a
distinct
atmosphere or
tone that
matches
different parts of
the story. The
images may
communicate
symbolism
and/or
metaphors.
Images create an
atmosphere or
tone that
matches some
parts of the story.
The images may
communicate
symbolism
and/or
metaphors.
An attempt was
made to use
images to create
an
atmosphere/tone
but it needed
more work.
Image choice is
logical.
Little or no
attempt to use
images to create
an appropriate
atmosphere/tone.
The art of presenting family stories using common software tools
The 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
The rhythm of the piece is what keeps your audience’s interest in the story. Music tempo,
speech rate, image duration, and panning and zooming speed all work to establish pace.
Generally pace will be consistent, but once in a while it will pause, accelerate, decelerate,
stop or blast-off.
Rubric - Voice - Pacing
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
The pace
(rhythm and
voice
punctuation) fits
the story line and
helps the
audience really
"get into" the
story.
Occasionally
speaks too fast
or too slowly for
the story line.
The pacing
(rhythm and
voice
punctuation) is
relatively
engaging for the
Tries to use
pacing (rhythm
and voice
punctuation), but
it is often
noticeable that
the pacing does
not fit the story
line. Audience is
not consistently
audience.
engaged.
No attempt to
match the pace
of the
storytelling to
the story line or
the audience.
Rubric - Duration of Story
Excellent
Good
Satisfactory Needs
Improvement
Length of
story was 3
to 4
minutes.
Length of
story was 2
to 3
minutes.
Length of
story was 1
to 2
minutes.
Story was
less than
one minute
long or
more than 4
minutes
long.
Rule of 80/20
glitz, fixing every
little thing…
the
production
wall
Hitting the
production
wall
20%
- costs, resources -
Source: Jason Ohler
First 80%
- project completion -
Last
20%
Publishing your story
Publishing Your Videos online
1.
http://www.youtube.com (a very public space... OK for your
students, but you might not like to post there)
2.
http://teachertube.com or http://schooltube.com (two video
hosting sites especially for schools)
3.
http://video.google.com (a little less public, but Google may soon
start charging $10 per year for an account)
4.
http://blip.tv/ (I have a group of movies stored there:
http://eportfolios.blip.tv/ )
5.
http://ourmedia.org (a community of individuals dedicated to
spreading grassroots creativity: videos, podcasts and other works
of personal media)
Online Storage
You can also choose an online file storage system, such as
the one that Ed uses: Microsoft Windows Live Sky Drive:
http://skydrive.live.com
The advantage of this system is that you can store up to 25
GB of all types of files, and you can password-protect your
files.
I also like http://www.divshare.com/ to store files online,
because they give you the code to embed your video into a
blog or website (just like the video sharing sites). They let
you store up to 5 GB of files.
What’s Your Story?
Richness not possible in print
Audiences worldwide but most likely small and intimate.
CIC Digital Story Project
1. A digital reflective story about your
experiences with Teach21 and what it has
meant for you, your colleagues, and your
students
2. A narrative reflection on your participation to
complement your digital story
3. Related assignments and samples of your
and/or your students’ work that emerged from
the project.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, April 21
Stories in three Partners in
Learning areas
1. Multimedia Records of Practice
2. Electronic Portfolios
3. Math Dispositions
CIC PiL Digital Story
Requirements
Between 2.5 and 4 minutes
Have written permissions to use student images
Music track optional… or use only royalty-free
music
Mention CIC and the Microsoft Partners in
Learning Project
Include student voices, where possible
Complete story by June 10, 2009
My Final Wish…
May all your
electronic portfolios
become dynamic
celebrations and stories
of deep learning
across the lifespan.
Dr. Helen Barrett
Researcher & Consultant
Electronic Portfolios & Digital Storytelling for
Lifelong and Life Wide Learning
Center for Advanced Technology in Education
University of Oregon College of Education
[email protected]
http://electronicportfolios.org/