Transcript Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Bernard R. Robin University of Houston College of Education.

Educational Uses of
Digital Storytelling
Bernard R. Robin
University of Houston College of Education
Digital Storytelling Website
digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu
11/6/2015
What is Digital Storytelling?
• Combines the art of telling stories with some
mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded
audio narration, video and music to present
information on a specific topic.
• Revolves around a theme and usually
contains a particular viewpoint; stories are
typically just a few minutes long.
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Early Need for DS
• Seeking meaningful uses of digital
photography
• Wanted students to use digital images as a
mode of communication and personal
reflection
• Looking for a way to successfully integrate
multimedia development into K-12, preservice and in-service teacher education
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Benefits of DS to Educators
• Appeals to the diverse learning styles of students
by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation tool;
• Generates interest and motivation for the "digital
generation" students in today’s classrooms;
• Capitalizes on the creative talents of students as
they research and tell stories of their own; and
• Allows student work to be shared for viewing and
critiquing by others.
Benefits of DS to Students
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Research Skills: Finding and analyzing pertinent information;
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Writing Skills: Developing a point of view and writing a script;
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Organization Skills: Managing story materials and time on task;
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Technology Skills: Learning to use a variety of multimedia tools
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Presentation Skills: Deciding how to present the story to an audience;
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Interview Skills: Finding sources to interview & formulating questions;
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Interpersonal Skills: Working & determining roles within a group;
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Problem-Solving Skills: Learning to make decisions and overcome; and
Assessment Skills: Critiquing their own and others’ work.
Why Digital Storytelling Works
Types of Digital Stories 1
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Personal Narratives:
Tent Mates on Biak Island in WWII
Character Stories
Stories about Events in Our Lives
Adventure Stories
Accomplishment Stories
Stories about Places in Our Lives
Stories about What We Do
Recovery Stories
Memorial Stories
http://thewar.coe.uh.edu/explore/story.cfm?storyid=86
Types of Digital Stories
Stories that Examine Historical Events:
Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
Uses Familiar Historical Material
Facilitates Further Understanding,
Research and Organizational Skills
A Good Way to Introduce Students to
Creating their Own Digital Stories
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/movie_social_studies_04.htm
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http://faculty.coe.uh.edu/brobin/videos/FLV/lincoln-inaug2.flv
Download Free Wimpy FLV Player
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Stories That Inform or Instruct:
How Pop-Ups Got their Pop
Examines the History of Pop-Up Books
Explains the Early Technological
Innovations that Preceded Pop-Up Books
Encourages Further Exploration by the
Viewer
http://courses.coe.uh.edu/brobin/7358-lit/lit-finalprojects/smith/sfsmith_popup_digitalstory_final.wmv
The 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling
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The Center for Digital Storytelling is known for developing
the 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling, as a useful starting
point for beginners.
The 10 Educational Elements of
Digital Storytelling
We added a few elements specifically aimed at
students who create their own digital stories.
1. The Overall Purpose of the Story
6. Pacing of the Narrative
2. The Narrator’s Point of View
7. Meaningful use of Audio
3. The Dramatic Question(s)
8. Quality of Images (& Video)
4. Choice of Content
9. Economy of Story Detail
5. Clarity of Voice
10. Good Grammar and Language Usage
Assessing Student Work
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Challenges to Using DS with Students
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Trouble Formulating a Story/Script
Less Interest in the Storytelling
Limited Access to Technology
Inability to Save from the Internet
Time Consuming
Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues
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Copyright & Educational Fair Use
• Many of the digital stories on our site include
images and audio found on the Internet using
commonly available search engines. The stories
have been created for non-profit, educational use
by students and teachers and we hope are within
the fair use protection of existing copyright laws. If
any copyright owner objects to the use of any work
appearing on this website, please contact us and
we will remove the work from the site.
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Free Digital Storytelling Software
Good for Beginners
Download the free Microsoft Photo Story 3
Software for Windows XP & Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotograp
hy/photostory/default.mspx
Tutorials available on Educational Uses of DS Website
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Web 2.0 Tools for DS
• Alan Levine’s 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
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What’s Next?
• More Digital Story Examples, Articles,
Research, Other DS Sites
• More/Better Training Materials
• A Submit your Own Story Option
• More Emphasis on the International
Aspect of Digital Storytelling/Stories in
Multiple Languages
• More on DS in Healthcare Education
• New Dynamic Database-Website
Comments from My Students
“…what is occurring because of that one simple little thing you
have done (teaching digital storytelling) is really rather
phenomenal. Remember your comment at the beginning of the
training about – would it help if I could give you a technology
tool that very quickly you could learn and use even if you don’t
know anything about technology? I wondered when you said
that how it could be done. Well, you did it and it has proven to
be effective many times over with an unbelievable ripple effect
as it is touching special education, ESL students, recent
immigrants, parents of autistic children, and on and on.”
– a high school teacher in Brownsville, Texas
Comments from My Students
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You will probably want to spend some time on DS and its 8
gazillion educational uses and how cool it is and how much
potential it has and how this site is designed to help
educators tap into that.
But I think a unique focus of this site is how it's developed,
and that this class (and past and future classes) are
collaborating on the content. It's sort of a meta-educational
process -- we're learning about how to use this technology,
we're generating our own ideas, we're teaching each other,
and we're working to make the site better to help teach
others.
It might also be worth mentioning how the medical/dental
program has tapped into this as a result of this class, and
how DS is thus far not used much in medical/dental education
but this site is hoping to change that.
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Adding Video to Digital Stories
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/intro/DS-intro.htm
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My Digital Storytelling Courses
• Linked with Popular Culture in
Education Course
http://courses.coe.uh.edu/brobin/7358-pop/7358-pop.htm
• Linked with History of Children’s
Literature Course
http://courses.coe.uh.edu/brobin/7358-lit/7358-lit.htm
• Creating Educational Materials for
Digital Storytelling
http://courses.coe.uh.edu/brobin/6397/
Contact Information
Bernard R. Robin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Houston - College of Education
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204-5027
Phone: 713-743-4952
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.coe.uh.edu/~brobin