Issues Educational

Digital Storytelling

Digital stories in the classroomNew Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, & Creativity(Corwin Press, August, 2007)

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Fundamentals shifts

20 revelations about:•Digital story telling, new

media narrative•New Media Literacy•Art the 4th R•Life in tEcosystem

Digital Storytelling

MATERIALS

Digital Storytelling

•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?

Digital Storytelling

Digital native info landscape…

Then…

Digital Storytelling

Digital native info landscape…

(Prensky)

Then… Now…

Digital Storytelling

•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their own tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?

Digital Storytelling

What’s digital storytelling about?•Tech serving story,

and not vice versa…

•What happens when give bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

•Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

•Being hero of own, life learning story…

Digital Storytelling

What’s digital storytelling about?•Tech serving story,

and not vice versa…

•What happens when give bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

•Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

•Being hero of own, life learning story…

Digital Storytelling

What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good!

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day

Digital Storytelling

What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day

Digital Storytelling

• Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback

Teacher more important now…

Digital Storytelling

Teacher more important now…• Leave clicks, tricks to

kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback

Digital Storytelling

AssessmentReason teachers don’t require more new media projects from students??

Not comfortable assessing new media…

So, let’s help them…

Role of media grammar in new media…

Digital Storytelling

Beneath story: storyboards, story maps, scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of writing “under the radar”…if it ain’t on the page…

A digital story is:

• Just tip of iceberg

• Portfolio unto itself

Assessment

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Problem(tension) Solution

(resolution)

Transformation

Story Core

Story

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Story Core

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Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Digital Storytelling

Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

NO!2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

Digital Storytelling

New story planning process

1. Get a story idea

3. Develop storyboard or outline and script

2. Develop story mapNew!

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Key concept: Story mapping vs. boarding…

…the flow of emotion vs. the flow of motion…

VS.

:

New!

Digital Storytelling

(Dillingham, 2003; modified Ohler 2005)

VPS + transformation = quest

Transformation

Problem(tension) Solution

(resolution)

Beginning End

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Story Core

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Story Core within the story map

(Ohler, 2005)

Transformation

Story

Problem(tension) Solution

(resolution)

Beginning End

Digital Storytelling

DAOW of literacy…

Digital storytelling blends a number of literacies…

Including MEDIA LITERACY…

(4thR)

Digital Storytelling

New frontier…

= new pedagogies…

+

Story thinking Analytic thinking+

Digital Storytelling

Twenty Revelations about

Keystones 2007

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

…digital storytelling, new media literacy in education

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 1:

I know only one thing for certain about the technologies that await us in the future: we will find ways to tell stories with them.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 2:

The digital revolution would have been a storytelling revolution if early computers had booted up in a word processor instead of a programming language.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 3:

Digital technology is assistive technology for the artistically challenged.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 4:

The digital revolution in a sentence: finally, we all get to tell our own story in our own way.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 5:

Art is the 4th R.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 6:

What happens when you give a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 7:

It is the special responsibility of teachers to ensure that students use technology to serve the story and not the other way around.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 8:

Learning communities are storytelling communities.

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Revelation 9:

The attitude is the aptitude.

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Revelation 10:

Stories help us make sense out of the chaos of life.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 11:

Story provides a powerful metaphor, framework, and set of practical processes for resolving issues, educating ourselves, and pursuing our goals.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 12:

Students need to become heroes of their own learning stories as well as of the stories they tell with their own lives.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 13:

Stories help us remember.

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Revelation 14:

Combining storytelling and critical thinking defines an important pedagogical frontier.

Digital Storytelling

Revelation 15:

Digital stories allow today’s students to pursue academic content in their own language.

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Revelation 16:

Digital storytelling helps students develop planning skills that are transferable to many endeavors.

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Revelation 17:

Digital stories combine traditional and emerging literacies, engaging otherwise reluctant students in literacy development.

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Revelation 18:

Digital story creation offers an effective means to teach media literacy.

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Revelation 19:

Digital storytelling helps students develop creativity and innovation skills needed to solve important problems in imaginative ways.

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Revelation 20:

offer to help them use technology with care and to tell their stories with clarity and humanity.

Technology doesn’t make teachers obsolete. Quite the opposite. Now more than ever, students need the guidance and wisdom that teachers

Digital Storytelling

Go tell your story!

www.jasonOhler.comThank you…

Digital Storytelling

Go tell your story!

www.jasonOhler.comThank you…