Diane BarriePA Writing and Literature Project,

Technology LiaisonJuly 2011

Our AgendaIntroductionsSetting the Purpose

Essential Questions/Big IdeasWhy Digital Storytelling?

Exploration: What is Digital Storytelling?

Application: How To…Tools, Tricks, and TipsMake Your Own! (Thursday)

Closure

Workshop ResourcesGo to www.pawlpwiki.pbwiki.com

Scroll down to #12. Workshop Resources

Click on July 2011 (DST at WDSD)

Essential Questions

Why use technology for teaching and learning?

Why choose digital storytelling as a medium for teaching and learning?Go to Workshop Resources July 2011 to blog

your initial thoughts

Big Ideas#1 - Technology is a tool for

teaching and learning, not the focus of the lesson

Big Ideas#2 – “Integrating Technology”

means students use the technology, not just view

Big Ideas#3 - Using technology requires

students to acquire and use 21st century skills

Creativity

Communication Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Why Digital Storytelling?

Technology is Changing How We Communicate

Why Digital Storytelling?A medium that gives voice to students’ ideas

Do your students know how to speak with conviction?

A medium to which the YouTube generation can relate… What are those 21st century skills? (read and

respond to Friedman Article on 21st Century Learners)

Why Digital Storytelling?Develops visual and multimedia literacy

addresses development of the interpretation of digital media and application of that interpretation to a personal message or story

Provides students with a competitive and compelling voice enlarges boundaries of audienceincreases depth and power of communication

Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

Why Digital Storytelling?Permits students to recapture creativity,

develop it and intensify it, apply it, extend it…

Helps students write more effectively permits visualization of the writingresults in additional level of perception that extends

the writing process to a place seldom reached

Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

Why Digital Storytelling?Provides an authentic personal learning

experiencestudent investment greatly increased results in greatly improved motivation and

end productTeaches technology and information

literacy

Source: “What Do Students Learn?” by David Jakes - http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

What are Digital Stories?EXPLORE!

Go to University of Houston Educational Uses of DST (link on Workshop Resources)

View several examplesCreate a working definition

7 Elements of DSTPoint of View What is the main point of the story and what is

the perspective of the author?

A Dramatic Question

A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end of the story.

Emotional Content

Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the story to the audience.

The Gift of Your Voice

A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context.

The Power of the Soundtrack

Music or other sounds that support and embellish the storyline.

Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.

Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.

*Source: University of Houston Educational Uses of DST

Explore! Six DST Sites1. DIGITALES 2. CENTER FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING 3. HELEN BARRETT'S DST 4. JASON OHLER'S DST 5. MULTIMEDIA AND INTERNET SCHOOLS DST 6. KEVIN HODGSON'S DST  

Be prepared to share three interesting things you

learned and/or applications for DST in the classroom.

What Purposes and Projects?Persuasion – PSAMarketing/Persuasion – Create a Product

http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_grant_zimmerman/relieve_student_boredom_quick_engaging_project

Poetry – Digital Poem (see Poem Flows)Informative Movie (to synthesize content

from a unit)More at

http://21stcenturyteaching.pbworks.com/Ideas-for-Photostory-3-Projects

How To…Software optionsResources (websites)DirectionsAssessmentPublication and Celebration

Software - BeginnersPhoto Story

freevery easy to usefewer options

Software - IntermediateMovie Maker

Easy to use, but there are a few tricks of the trade:Save everything for your movie in one

folder Never move your folder or the contents!

MM vs. PSMM allows you to use video and add text

throughout the story

Software – other free optionsPower PointVoicethreadMakeBeliefs ComixKerpoof

ResourcesClick on Digital Storytelling at the PAWLP

Wiki Music:

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/http://ccmixter.org/http://www.freesound.org/index.phphttp://www.jamendo.com/en/

AssessmentBegin with the end in mind – What do you

want your students to know, understand, and be able to do as a result of the instruction?RubricsReflection

Publication/Celebration (http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/search/processRequest.do?Ntt=movies&requestURI=searchMain&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0)

HomeworkOn Thursday, you’ll make a short (1-2

minute) digital storyThink about a story you want to tell

Personal ORProfessional (example for a class

project?)Find/bring digital pictures (10-20) on a

flash drive or upload to DropBox

Revisit Essential QuestionsWhy use technology for teaching and

learning?Why choose digital storytelling as a medium

for teaching and learning?