Digital Storytelling Digital stories in the classroom …a telling experience A digital telling workshop based on the book to be published by Corwin Press,

Digital Storytelling

Digital stories in the classroom…a telling experience

A digital telling workshop based on the book to be published by Corwin Press, Fall, 2006 www.jasonOhler.com


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1. What’s digital storytelling about?

Today’s plan



2. Art the 4th R, storytelling…

Today’s plan




3. Assessing digital stories…

Today’s plan





4. Thinking about stories…

Today’s plan






5. Story planning…

Today’s plan







6. Production process…

Today’s plan







6. Production process…

7. Your turn, show & tell…

Today’s plan


What’s digital story telling about?Living, learning, working in the Digital Age…



Story is big…


story


character


filmont


• stories and storytelling…

What’s digital storytelling about?

Living



• speaking new media…


Living




• joining the story culture…


Living




• joining the story culture…

• shifting from consumer to producer, prosumer…


Living


• assessment…


Learning


• assessment…

• content exploration…


Learning


• assessment…


• multiple literacies, intelligences


Learning


• assessment…



• blending story & critical thinking…


Learning


• assessment…




• cross-curricular learning…


Learning


• assessment…





• project-based learning…


Learning


• assessment…





• project-based learning…

• constructivist learning…


Learning


• creativity…


Working


• creativity…

• team work, leadership…


Working


• creativity…


• project management…


Working


• creativity…



• effective communication…


Working


• creativity…




• skill transfer…


Working


• creativity…




• skill transfer…

• long term impact, lifelong learning…


Working


Art… the 4th R


Thanks to the struggle to use multimedia effectively, the language of art is taking center stage; art has become the next literacy… art has become the fourth R."

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artTheFourthR.com


Why art the 4thR now?

1. WWW Esperanto…



1. WWW Esperanto…

2. Assistive technology for the aesthetically challenged- creates “art” middle class…



1. WWW Esperanto…

2. Assistive technology for the aesthetically challenged- creates “art” middle class…

3. Real work, real pay


4th R… Then What?


•storytelling, oldest and newest profession, art form…

Stories…



•blends art, learning, culture and modern tools…

Stories…




•favorite teachers were good storytellers…

Stories…




•favorite teachers were good storytellers…

•students who tell stories own their learning….

Stories…


Taboo against us telling our own stories


UNTIL DIGITAL AGE

…now everyone gets to tell their own story in their own way…


Future of digital storytelling


Assessing digital stories


AssessmentWhy don’t teachers require more new media projects by students?

They don’t feel comfortable assessing them…

So, let’s help them…


Assessment• story• content• technique• clarity/voice• tone/flow/POV• media blend• literacy• artifacts


Story on the digital stage is just tip of artifact/assessment iceberg…

Assessment


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…

Story on the digital stage is just tip of artifact/assessment iceberg…

Assessment


DAOW of literacy…

Digital storytelling blends a number of literacies…


•effective, creative, and wise…

•why, when and when not, as well as what and how to…

•media literacy…

DAOW of literacy…digital


Media literacy•“Media acts as frame, filter on world while appearing to be a clear window”… GOODMAN



•Piercing the neocortex… techniques of media persuasion…




•Understanding media by doing media…




•Understanding media by doing media…

•Traditional literacy IS media literacy; V 2.0 essays = advertising…


DAOW of literacy…art

•4th R…

•design, the grammar of art…

•storytelling = mixed media...


timeless skills…

DAOW of literacy…oral

•timeless skills…

•works with no, low and high tech…

•improves expression…

•video encourages storytelling…

•expectation of presentation…


if it ain’t on the page…

DAOW of literacy…written

•if it ain’t on the page…

•language of shared plans…

•narratives, ideas, scripts, etc…

•deep processing…


Let’s watch (& assess) some stories!1. Watch

2. Fast write (3 minutes)

3. Discuss

4. Develop rubric

5. Turn in notes


Thinking about stories…•Stories are dangerous•What stories do•Making a story work


Stories are dangerousArt Theater vs. Political theater

VS.

From Good Ideas Need Love Too by Kay


Story thinking vs. Analytic thinking

VS.

Two kinds of thinking


Report/ DocumentaryStory

Two kinds of thinking

VS.

Story thinking vs. Analytic thinking

Where…? ?


• provide info container…interface with world…

• simplify, structure…

• teach, promote meaning, survival…

• personalize, create identity…

• socialize, acculturate…

• contextualize…

What do stories do…?


























Experiment in context…


story


character


filmont


Story planning…

Once upon a time, there was a …


No formulas… only forms of you


1. Honoring listener-teller covenant of respect…

What makes a story work…?



2. Forward motion thru listener expectation…can’t wait to hear what’s next…





3. What’s next fits but is unexpected- no cliches…






4. Timing, during and overall…







5. Personal details, universal connections…








6. Internal rhythm thru structure…








6. Internal rhythm thru structure…

7. Memorability…



1. Pacing…

2. Dramatic question…

3. Gift of voice…unique perspective

4. Soundtrack…

5. Point of view…who’s perspective?

6. Emotional content…mood

7. Economy…balance between storyteller and audience

From Digital Storytelling Cookbook Joe Lambert, et al.



1. Principles not rules…

2. Eternal, universal forms, not formulas…

3. Archetypes not stereotypes…

4. Thoroughness not shortcuts…

5. Realities not mysteries of writing…

6. Mastering the art, not second- guessing the market place…

7. Respect, not disdain for audience

8. Originality, not duplication…


From Story by McKee


• 1st person…autobiographical…

• 3rd person…omniscient

• 3rd person personal…

• 3rd person magical…be an animal, be an object…

• community we…

• them vs. me…

POV…?


Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

2. Develop storyboard or outline and script


Traditional story boarding

Angle:

Shot:

Movement:

Audio:

Angle:

Shot:

Movement:

Audio:

Technical direction

Technical direction


Angle: wide

Shot: side of bus, going to school

Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to learn)

Angle: wide, zoom in

Shot: front of school, students entering

Movement: stationary

Audio: music, cont.

Technical directionNone - ambient happy school bus noise

Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter

Story board for “We Won’t Leave School”

Technical direction


http://www.csupomona.edu/~wcweber/325/storybd.htm

Teacher at door, greeting each child as they enter

Script, voice over narration:

“Once upon a time there were children so in love with school they refused to leave when summer vacation came. They demanded to keep learning. ‘More math problems!’ they cried.”

None - voice over with ambient happy school, bus noise

Story board for “We Won’t Leave School”

Angle: wide

Shot: side of bus, going to school

Movement: follow bus Audio: music (Born to learn)

Technical direction



1. Get a story idea




1. Get a story idea

NO!2. Develop storyboard or outline and script


New story planning process

1. Get a story idea


2. Develop story mapNew!


Story mapping…

1. Maps the emotional flow of story…

2. Shows relationship between events and story elements…


Story mapping…



3. Is simple, no tech required…


Story mapping…




4. Happens early in story project…


Story mapping…





5. Story as information container… students understand story rhythm…


Story mapping…





5. Story as information container… students understand story rhythm…

6. Works with all storytelling, media… high tech, low tech no tech…


Problem (tension)

Solution (resolution)

Beginning End

Middle

Ordinary life…

“the call to adventure…” closure

“Life” resumes…

Visual Portrait of Story (VPS)

(Dillingham, 2001)

(conflict, growth)- challenge - opportunity

- goal


(Dillingham, Ohler 2003)

Transformation?

Problem (tension)


Beginning

Ordinary life…



VPS + transformation = quest

Middle

End


- goal



Transformation?

Beginning



End



Transformation?

Problem (tension)


Beginning

Ordinary life…



Story V (vee)

Middle

End


- goal


Story V (vee)


Kinds of stories…



Transformation?

Problem (tension)


Beginning

Ordinary life…




Middle

End


- goal



realization, decision?

Problem (tension)


Beginning

Ordinary life…



VPS + realization/decision = personal story

Middle

End


- goal



learning, growth?

Inquiry (tension)

Discovery(resolution)

Beginning

Ordinary life…



VPS + learning = curriculum story

Middle

End


- goal

Make students heroes of their own learning stories…



artistic growth?

Inspiration (tension)

Realization(resolution)

Beginning

Ordinary life…



VPS + creative focus = art story

Middle(conflict, growth)

End

- challenge - opportunity

- goal

William Tell and the Little Girl Who Could Fix Computers…”

“

(I tell a story… we debrief)


Transformation?

Problem (tension)


Beginning

Ordinary life…

closure


Start your story anywhere…

Middle(conflict, growth)

End

Build story around a key transformation you want to illustrate…

‘Problem/ resolution scenario you want to flesh out? Start here…

I rarely start here…

Do you have a “moral” you want students to understand? Start here and work backwards…


- goal

Opportunities or challenges for your students? Start here…


Kinds of stories…Lambert• Stories about someone important…

– character, memorial stories• Stories about an event…

– adventure, accomplishment stories• Stories about place…• Stories about what I do…• Other personal stories…

– recovery, love, discovery

From Digital Storytelling Cookbook Joe Lambert, et. al.


Kinds of stories…Porter• Personal stories…creating living memories• Kinship stories…family stories of who we are• Hyper-interactive stories…groups, diverse• Personal expression…thoughts, feelings…• Myths, legends, tales…past, present, future• Expository stories…info beyond words…• Persuasive stories…influencing others…• Itza wrap…stories of lessons learned…• Future vision stories…imagining the future now…

From DIGITALES by Bernajean Porter


More story maps & organizers…


End

Aristotle - Story Map/Diagram

complication

peripeteia

Aristotle

(reversal of fortune)

tying of the knot untying

anagnorisis(transformation, realization)

- - Middle - -

(denouement)

Beginning

From THE POETICS by Aristotle


Freytag’s story pyramid

From DIE TECHNIK DES DRAMAS by Freytag, 1863


Joseph Campbellcall to adventure

tests

challenges

problems

rescue

resolution

resurrection

moral, lessons learned, changed habits

threshold of adventure

transformation

helpers

flight

From HERO HAS A THOUSAND FACES by Campbell


Breneman

Minor climaxes

Quick ending after climax

From ONCE UPON A TIME - A STORYTELLING BOOK by Breneman and Breneman


McKee

From STORY by McKee

Bringing life back into balance…watch “Adaptation”…


Treasure map

Less structure, more adaptable… begin here or evolve into this approach…?

reversal

smaller conflict

relatively more significant conflict

steep resolution

medium gradual rise to adventure

sharp change

smoother change

start here…

end here…


Adapt-a-map

by Michael Christenson, Media Literacy class, 2005


Kieran Egan’s Binary Opposites

story

affectively engage: decide, resolve, mediate through story creation

cognitively engage: learn through research,

effective pedagogies

‘…kids understand story…’

evaluation

From TEACHING AS STORYTELLING by Egan


Kieran Egan’s Binary Opposites1. Identifying importance:

- What is most important about this topic? Why should it matter to children?

- What is affectively engaging about it?

2. Finding binary opposites:

- What powerful binary opposites best catch the importance of the topic?

3. Organizing content into story form:

- What content most dramatically embodies access to the topic?

- What content best articulates the topic into a developing story form?

4. Conclusion:

- What’s best way of resolving dramatic conflict inherent in the binary opposites?

- What degree of mediation of those opposites is appropriate to ask?

5. Evaluation:

- How can one know whether the topic has been understood, its importance grasped and the content learned?

From TEACHING AS STORYTELLING by Egan


Story spine by Kenn AdamsThe platform • Once upon a time…

• Every day…

The catalyst: • But one day…

The consequences:

• Because of that…



The climax: • Until finally…

The resolution: • Ever since then…

• The moral of this story is…

by Adams


Story telling in business & organizations…


Stephen Denning…•uses elements of story with groups…

•story begins imagination process then springboards to group’s issue…

•blends familiar and unfamiliar

•effective story plausible, coherent, reasonable…

•not necessarily true, but rings true…From THE SPRINGBOARD by Stephen Denning


Stephen Denning…•Rorschach inkblot phenomenon- input comes from the listener…

•listeners suspend judgement, tell the “second story,” their story…

•your solution not theirs, but helps them imagine theirs…

•big S, little s…

From THE SPRINGBOARD by Stephen Denning


•info overload- faith, trust everything…

•when listeners make your story theirs, they’ve tapped into that faith…

•story as trance…shoulders drops…

•aikido, using their momentum, not yours

•people don’t care how much you know until they know much you care…

From THE STORY FACTOR by Annette Simmons

Annette Simmons…


1. Who I am stories – self-disclosure; vulnerability without exploitation…

2. Why am I here stories – what’s in it for you, before what’s in it for them…

3. Vision story – making “invisible visible, at least in their mind’s eye.” “A vision story is an antidote to meaningless frustration.”From THE STORY FACTOR by Annette Simmons

Annette Simmons…6 stories


4. Teaching stories- clarity without buy-in is counter productive…

5. Values in action stories- how many stories can you tell that demonstrate values you profess to hold…

6. I know what you are thinking stories- dispels fears without direct confrontation…

Annette Simmons…6 stories

From THE STORY FACTOR by Annette Simmons


• Most stories = transformation stories

• As knowledge becomes more valuable, so do stories…

• Four qualities of a story: 1) endurance, 2) salience (punch), 3) sensemaking (true to one’s one sense of things), 4) comfort level From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by Larry Prusak, et al

Larry Pruzak…


Stories about other people

• employees try to answer questions about each other’s reliability, trust, knowledge… gossip?

Stories about work

• trying to teach other…managers should encourage storytelling…

From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by Larry Prusak, et al

Larry Pruzak…kinds of stories


Stories about the organization

• help each other, make sense of work by telling work stories…RumorMill

Timeless stories

• us against them… I do all the work around here… The reward is disproportionate to the effort…




Context stories - true at the moment

• RumorMill…

Stories as social bonding

• phatic speech (content irrelevant, the point is to bond)…

Stories as signals

• architecture, organiz. structures, etc.





Stories about the past

• often constrain present; facts, nuance lost, all that remains is the story…

Stories about the future

• getting past the past…

Stories about life itself

• teach each other about life at work…




Stories about Oneself

• When you talk to yourself, who is talking to whom?



From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by John Seely Brown, et al

John Seely Brown…• thru narrative, show how general is

rooted in the particular…

• narrative has context (specific) and moral (general)…

• communities of practice to tell stories …Xerox repair people… particulars that led to useful generalities…


From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by John Seely Brown, et al

John Seely Brown…• PARC wired coffee pots…

• explaining new technologies thru storyboards, short videos…

• “What’s so interesting about a story is that it always gets repurposed in the context in which it’s told.”


From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by Katlina Groh, et al

Katlina Groh…ed film maker• good stories have salience

(emotional punch line), emotional transitions, authenticity (1st person)

• the point in telling your story is to discover the audience’s story…

• best way to get info with subjects is not Q and A, but you tell a story then invite them to tell a story…


From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by Katlina Groh, et al

Katlina Groh…ed film maker• life is a story we invent…


Denning…why narrative?

From STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS by Denning, et al

• stories have salience to the lives of people in organizations…

• stories help us make sense of organizations…

• storytelling is quick and powerful…

• storytelling is free…

• storytelling skills easily upgradable…




• narrative communicates naturally (storytelling is our native language)…

• storytelling communicates collaboratively…

• storytelling communicates persuasively…

• stories can communicate holistically…



• storytelling communicates context…

• storytelling communicates intuitively…

• storytelling communicates entertainingly…

• storytelling communicates movingly so as to get action…

• storytelling flies under corporate radar




• storytelling communicates feelingly…

• storytelling communicates interactively…

• storytelling is memorable…

• storytelling spurs double-loop…

• storytelling is key to leadership…

• storytelling builds authenticity…




• storytelling reconnects the speaker with the spoken…

• storytelling re-connects the knower with the known…

• stories are a large part of the economy (20% if American’s GDP)…



Other kinds of stories…

?


Other kinds of stories…

blends 2 diagrams by McKee…


Other kinds of stories…- non-universal stories…

Barre Toelken, Director of the Folklore Program, Utah University




- circular, non-linear stories… House Made of Dawn (Momaday), Pulp Fiction, If You Give a Mouse…





- user-driven stories, games

ending #1…?

ending #2…?





- user-driven stories, games- learn rules, break rules…

my photography teacher

ending #1…?

ending #2…?





- user-driven stories, games- learn rules, break rules…

my photography teacher

- experience all kinds of stories, make your own maps…

ending #1…?

ending #2…?


Trans-formation


Transformation?

Problem (tension)


Ordinary life…

closure


What’s the nature of transformation?

Middle(conflict, opportunity)

End


- goal

Beginning


8 Levels of character transformation…1. Physical/kinesthetic - strength, dexterity,

realizing potential

2. Inner strength - courage, realizing potential



realizing potential


3. Emotional - maturity, realization

4. Moral - conscience, realizing “right”



realizing potential




5. Psychological - insight, self-awareness, realization, revelation

6. Social - realizing responsibility



realizing potential






7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation



realizing potential






7. Intellectual/creative - learning, problem solving, critical thinking, realizing new understandings

8. Spiritual - awakening, revelation


Bloom’s taxonomy as transformation…Level Kind Explanation

#6 Evaluation Character assesses situation, critiques and/or defends idea, person; evaluates a situation in order to respond to it…

#5 Synthesis Character pieces together parts to form new understanding of situation…

#4 Analysis Character deconstructs a situation, distinguishes among options, plans or organizes something, compares and contrasts different things…

#3 Application Character discovers, constructs or changes something; applies understanding to a new situation…

#2 Comprehension Character explains, interprets, predicts something…

#1 Knowledge Character knows, remembers, describes something…


- decide, mediate, balance…

- solve, figure out, unravel, believe…

- realize, understand, see (insight)…

- learn, change, grow, evolve, master…

- prevail, lose, give up, succeed, let go

- fall (love, ethics)…

- fate, luck? your turn…

Transformation verbs-

show vs. tell


- characters, listeners, both…

- consciously, unconsciously, both…

- internally, externally, both…

Who transforms?

Internal vs. external:

…slaying personal dragons vs. slaying real dragons…


Docudrama (Mockumentary)

Story

Continuum of transformation…

? Focus:

• listener changes thru learning…

• POV (narrator, docu-protagonist) can change too…

Focus:

• characters change…

• listeners change with them…

Report/ Documentary


Tea Break? take 15…


Thinking about the production process...

amplifier effect tech teaching tips rule of 80/20 media grammar


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

Amplifier effect


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

Moral: Focus on the story first…

Amplifier effect


Edwina’s 4 tech teaching tips:1. Don’t fear 10 year olds who

know more than you; deputize them…




2. Be kind to your techies…




3. Practice Zen Tech, not Zantac…

2. Be kind to your techies




4. Have fun… of course!

3. Practice Zen Tech, not Zantac

2. Be kind to your techies


Rule of 80/20


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the production wall


Hitting the production wall

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Rule of 80/20


• lighting…

• sound…

• steady shots…

• mixing…

• CRAP design (Williams)

• …unless on purpose…

Media grammar…

‘Media have their own grammar…’McLuhan


• fixed mike… encourages reading…

• head phone set… encourages movement, expression while sitting…

• wireless mike… encourages performing, movement, expression…

• test twice, record once…

• record, assess, then re-record…

Tech tips…recording narrative


• sticky note yucky green…

• send note home NOT to wear green…

• fix camera, do not move…

• artwork created lengthwise on paper…

• students move away from middle…

• artwork focused on sides…

Tech tips…chroma keying


• music, sound mix typically needs work…too much conflict…

• music without lyrics creates less interference with narrative…

• “inter” mix music, narrative…

• 30 second loops…

Tech tips…music, sound


Elements of the production process...

1. Step one?

2. Step two?

3...then what?


Pre-production Production

Post-production

Performance Distribution

•ideas, story storm

•VPS•peer pitch•storyboard, scripting

•make media list

•gather materials

•make voiceover, music

•take pics, video

•scan pics, objects

•formative review by peers, teachers

•edit media•assemble all media into one product

•mix, add transitions, titles

•final edit of product

•credits, citations

•showing in class, community

•web posting

•local TV?•JUMP•DVD?•notifying others

- GOING DIGITAL, BASIC PROCESS -


Pre-production Production

Post-production

Performance Distribution

•get recipe•consult others

•read through process

•gather ingredients

•make dough

•make frosting

•assemble•bake•let cool

•frost•decorate•add candles•credits, citations for those who helped

•cut the cake

•distribute, share

•seconds anyone?

•take leftovers to work

•share recipe

- MAKING A CAKE, BASIC PROCESS -


Typical digital story (for now)•2-4 minutes•uses “standard” (usually cheap) end user gear

•still pictures (scanned objects, old photos, digital photos)

•voice-over narration•titles, transitions, music


Emerging digital stories…•video, green screen… •oral storytelling, original art, music…

•voice-over animation…•VR? holography? haptics? etc?•interactivity, games…•distributed, shared stories…

…whatever comes, we will tell find ways to tell stories with it…


Digital

Where…?

Traditional DEOST

?Media scale

• performance, role of human voice…?• level, role of technology…?• amount, kind of editing…?

Kinds of digital stories…


Finding resources…


- images, pictures…

- voice-over; self, interviews

- software additions: transitions and titles…

- music, sounds, noises, found sound…

- video, animation perhaps…

Basic ingredients?


- digital photos…

- web images © …

- image services…

- scanned images…

- scanned things…

- video, video still shots…

Finding images…?


- photos, greeting cards, letters, report cards, personal papers…

- fabric, jewelry, keys, watches, medals…any small object…

- flowers, leaves, book covers, hair braids, drawings, mementos, art work, wall paper… anything

Adapted from DIGITALES by Bernajean Porter

What can you scan…?


- lesson plans, portfolios…

- student work, text books…

- parent comments, school board minutes, report cards…

- primary, secondary sources…

- web sites, blogs…

Curriculum images…?


- voice over, interviews, poetry readings, sound track from old videos, web sounds, effects…

Whence come sounds, music?



- CDs, web, movies ©, GarageBand etc., singing, playing…friends…




- CDs, web, movies ©, GarageBand etc., singing, playing…friends…

- found sounds, recording and/or processing sounds…



- animationstation.com- backgroundcity.com- creativecommons.org- freefoto.com- freegraphics.com- freephotographs.net- fresherimage.com- office/microsoft.com- pics4learning.com- stockedphotos.com

- freemusic.com- freeplaymusic.com- Google (burp+sound)- ljudo.com- pacdy.com/sounds/

index.html- sounddogs.com- stonewashed.net/sfx.htm

- wavecentral.com

Graphics Sounds, music

Web resources…?


1. Bernajean Porter - http://www.digitales.us/

2. Capture Wales - http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/capturewales/

3. Center for Digital Storytelling

4. Dana Atchley, Next Exit - http://www.nextexit.com/nextexit/nextframeset.html 5. David Brear - http://members.shaw.ca/dbrear/dst.html

6. Digital Storytelling Association - http://www.dsaweb.org/

7. Digital Clubhouse Network - http://www.digiclubnyc.org/digital_storytelling/index.html

8. Maricopa - http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/digital/examples.php

9. Media festival - http://www.mediafestival.org/

10. Using Digital storytelling in VET: experiences and reflections http://www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/ezine/year_2006/feb_apr/feature_digital_storytelling.htm

11. Tom Banaszewski - Teach Story - http://www.teachstory.com/

Digital Storytelling sites…


Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the ClassroomTom Banaszewski • Educator/Multimedia Author, Lexington, MA http://www.infotoday.com/mmschools/jan02/banaszewski.htm

Co-authoring identity: Digital storytelling in an urban middle school Alan Daviswww.thenjournal.org:16080/feature/61/

Telling Tales- Project brings sixth-graders' storytelling skills to surfaceDave Ford, Chronicle Staff WriterFriday, January 19, 2001www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/19/WB175935.DTL

The World of Digital StorytellingDr. Jason Ohler, President’s Professor, Educational Technology, Univ. of AlaskaEducation Leadership Magazine, December 2005/January 2006www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingArticle-1.pdf

Digital Storytelling articles…


- check to make sure you have equipment…

Step i. Pre-pre production…



- clear spot in your curriculum…





- got tech help?





- got tech help?

- start learning software…



- story storm

- develop problem/resolution, transformation table with class…

- select problem, develop story map individually…

- peer pitch (Theodosakis)

- tell story, adjust…

Step I. Pre-production #1…


- story storm







- story storm







- story storm







- focus literacy? Tell, write, rewrite …paragraphs, bullets?

- focus oracy? Tell, write, retell…

- focus art? Create story picture…

- focus digital literacy? Create, edit…on message?

- tell, retell… write, rewrite…































- story board/outline; PowerPoint? paper? assemble pictures?

- develop script for narration…

- develop media list from story map, storyboard, outline…

- gather materials…





















Step I. Pre-production artifacts - story map

- storyboard or outline

- media list

- narration script

- raw media

- logs

everything can be assessed…


- create voiceover narration

- take, find, scan pics, objects

- make, find music & sounds

- shoot video, conduct interviews

- prep media for use

- formative review?

Step II. Production…


- final edit of media components

- assemble into one product

- mix sound, volume

- add transitions, titles

- credits, citations, ©

- final edit

Step III. Post-production…


- show/tell in class

- show to peers, community

- web posting…DVDs?

- local TV, JUMP in your town?

- portfolio, send home with parents? …don’t forget notices…

Step IV. Performance, distrib.


- Reflection…

- Students have learned a lot…

- What do you want them to think about? Remember?

- What was learned? What would you do different next time?

- Story map their growth?

Step V. Post-post production…


Copyright & Intellectual Rights…

©


- Living in the gray area…

- Ms. Manners says:

- citation

- permission

- compensation

- Golden rule incomplete but great place to start…

Common sense, decency…

©


1. Purpose, character of your work -more non-profit, the better…

2. Nature of copyrighted work - more factual, less creative the better…

3. Amount and substantiality of portion used - less taken, the better…

4. Effect upon sales, market - less effect, the better…

The law - Fair Use 4 criteria…

Adapted from Copyright kids

©


• music, video, motion media: 10% or no more than 30 seconds…

• words: 10% but not > 1000 words …

• illustrations, photos: vaguer; no more than 5 images by artist; collected work: 10% or no more than 15 images…

The law - multimedia projects…

From University of Texas General Counsel’s office…

©


Question: if rules are followed, can students post their work to the web?

Answer: I think it's probably fine for students to post works to a school network if the work limits the amount of others' works to a small portion. Thirty seconds is certainly a good guideline, but it's not really a firm rule. The rule is more like, "keep it as small as you can and still make your point." Thus, in some cases, less than 30 will be needed; in other cases, more. But it really needs to be a thoughtful exercise in coming to the conclusion about what you need to make your point.”

The law - life in the gray zone…

From a copyright consultant…

©

“


• be paranoid…

• always ask permission…

• create your own material…

• use friends’ (& their friends’) materials

• use materials from sites set up for free/less restrictive use…

Avoiding the gray zone…

©


• creating it copyrights it…

• adding “Copyright © year name” is better…

• applying for formal copyright is best…

• but, others less likely to show it…

• include statement about use…

• make sure contact info clear…

Should students copyright?

©


• what is your school’s policy for posting, sharing student work?

• parent permission needed?

• who appears in your story? okay?

• difference between minors & majors…

• art vs. journalism…

• free speech, liable, slander…

Other permission issues…

©


- animationstation.com- backgroundcity.com- creativecommons.org- freefoto.com- freegraphics.com- freephotographs.net- fresherimage.com- office/microsoft.com- pics4learning.com- stockedphotos.com

- freemusic.com- freeplaymusic.com- Google (burp+sound)- ljudo.com- pacdy.com/sounds/

index.html- sounddogs.com- stonewashed.net/sfx.htm

- wavecentral.com

Graphics Sounds, music

Web resources…?


1. Univ. of Texas, Office of Gen. Counsel http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm#5

2. Copyright Kids http://www.copyrightkids.org

3. Learning & Leading with Technology http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/LLIssues/Volume_32_2005_2004_/April_No_7_1/April_2005.htm

4.Tech Learning Guidelines www.techlearning.com/copyrightguide

5. Copyright Condensed http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/teacherLinks/

Good copyright links…

©


MLA <www.mla.org>To generate MLA and APA citations: http://citationmachine.net

Citing a web site

For the material on this slide, it is:

“Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." OWL at Purdue University: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format. Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University. 03 Apr. 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html>.

Citing a web image

Artist if available. "Description or title of image." Date of image. Online image. Title of larger site. Date of download. <electronic address>.

Citing web sources…

From Purdue’s Online Writing Lab …

©


1. Comedy-tragedy mask: “21724700drama.thb.jpg.” Part of the Clipart.com collection that I subscribe to.

2. Rooftop scene: Excerpt from Then What? cover, created by Jeri Smith, 2001. I purchased this in 2001.

Works cited…

©

1. Harper, Georgia. "Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia." Multimedia Fair Use Guideline (CCUMU). University of Texas General Counsel Office. 04 Apr. 2006 <http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm#5>.

2. "Copyright Basics." Copyright Kids!. Copyright Kids. 04 Apr. 2006 <http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm>.

3. "Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." OWL at Purdue University: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format. Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University. 03 Apr. 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html>.

Images in top bar

Website information, MLA format


1. Course development…

Teaching DST @ a distance…

In 2006, 15 rural teachers in Alaska took ED 697: DST for Teachers, @ a distance… this is their story…



2. Adapting materials to the CMS…






3. Begin with a story…







4. Build online community…








5. Media pedagogy…









6. How to perform?









6. How to perform?

7. Reflection…




1. Story storm… 2. Map your story… 3. Peer pitch it…4. Tell it, write it…5. Storyboard it…6. Create media list…7. Go digital…

Your turn!


Story spine by Kenn AdamsThe platform • Once upon a time…

• Every day…

The catalyst: • But one day…

The consequences:




The climax: • Until finally…

The resolution: • Ever since then…

• The moral of this story is…

by Adams


Problem Solution Transformation

Story storming


1. Story storm… 2. Map your story… 3. Peer pitch it…4.Tell it, write it…5. Storyboard it…6. Create media list…7. Go digital…

Your turn!



Your turn!


Story training…

Stand up & tell a story? YIKES!!!


• timeless skill set…

Traditional storytelling…

Why is it important

?



• used hi tech, no tech, low tech…


Why is it important

?




• video becoming easier, cheaper, encouraging oral storytelling…


Why is it important

?





• media presentation expected…


Why is it important

?





• media presentation expected…

• every age has its water cooler…


Why is it important

?


• performance literacy… sound, motion, expression…(Dillingham)


exercises



• show us our face…


exercises



• show us your face…

• look, no arms…


exercises





• two voices…


exercises





• two voices…

• tasting, sensing, feeling…


exercises



Your turn!



Your turn!


REPORTING IN” ACTIVITY

Let’s hear some stories…

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Diagrams, books cited

Bloom, Benjamin, and David Krathwohl. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. New York: Longmans, Green, 1956.

Breneman, Lucille, and Bren Breneman. Once Upon a Time - A Storytelling Handbook. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1983.

Brown, John Seely, Stephen Denning, Katalina Groh, and Laurence Prusak. Storytelling in Organizations. Oxford: Heinemann, 2005.

Campbell, Joseph, and Krathwohl. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Denning, Stephen. The Springboard - How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations. Oxford: Heinemann, 2001.

Dillingham, Brett. "Performance Literacy." The Reading Teacher Sept. 2005: 72-75.Egan, Kiernan, and . Teaching as Story Telling. Chicago: Chicago Press, 1989.

Freytag. Die Technik des Dramas (Technique of Drama). 1863.

Goodman, Steven. Teaching Youth Media. New York: Teacher's College Press, 2003.

Works cited


Diagrams, books cited, continued…

Kay, A. (1996). Revealing the elephant: The use and misuse of computers in education. Sequence, 31(4), 1-2.

Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling Cookbook and Traveling Companion. 3 ed. Berkeley: Digital Diner Press, 2003.

McKee, John. Story- Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man. New York: McGraw-Hill.

MomaDay, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: HarperCollins, 1969.

Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: New York: Laura Geringer, 1985.

Porter, Bernajean. Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories. Sedalia: Porter Publications, 2004.

Simmons, Annette. The Story Factor. Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1997.

Tarantino, Quentin. Pulp Fiction. 1994.

Telford, Kenneth. Aristotle Poetics, Translation and Analysis. Chicago: Regenery, 1970.

Theodosakis, Nikos. Director in the Classroom. San Diego: Tech4Learning Publishing, 2001.

Toelken, Barre. "The Icebergs of Folktale: Misconception, Misuse, Abuse." Who Says? Essays on Pivotal Issues in Contemporary Storytelling. Ed. Carol Birch. Little Rock: August House, 1996. 35-63.

Works cited


Works citedGraphics, photos, from Clipart.com (thru an annual fee):• Angry lady: fear-anger-lady-19066489.jpg• Baby with luminescent computer: 32354173babyComputer.jpg• Ball and chain: allAndChain-1835320.jpg• Comedy-tragedy-masks: 21724700drama.thb.jpg• Committee: 2359488committee.jpg• Computer director: 20856935director.jpg• Digital camera (part of media collage in bubble): 20076414digital.jpg• Dragon on knight’s chest: 14697971dragon.jpg• Kid in movie theater: 19016181theater.jpg• Kid painting: kid-painting-20160430.gif• Kid thinking 30899756kidThinking.thb.jpg• Kid with A+ paper: 22316907evaluation.thb.jpg• Kid with magnifying glass: 19121841evaluation2.jpg• Knight: 19884228knight.jpg• Looking For: 21031472lookingFor.jpg• Mind, Idea, lightbulb• Ouch: Ouch-22029918.jpgstairs.jpg• Puppet stage: punchnjudy-22091633.gif• Storyteller to child in bed, g0165059.thb• Sunglasses on kid: 21793429sunglasses.jpg• Sunglasses: 20677551sunglasses.jpg• Teacher in purple jacket• Theater audience: 19016493theaterAudience.jpg• Yin-yang-3074759.jpg


Works citedGraphics, photos, from other sources:• Cow lips: http://212.43.196.62/pix/pix_tn/CowLips.jpg• Fourth R on easel - citation lost• Hannah, with permission from parents.• Picture of Don King/Howard Dean on stage before a crowd, from Chris Bischoff

([email protected])• Savoonga kids (with permission from parents), 1997.• Sticking tongue out (baby)- source unknown.• Then What? cover, by Jeri Smith, 2001.• Totem Pole picture by Philip Greenspun. Picture was found at:

http://photo.net/photo/pcd1661/ketchikan-totem-23.tcl; Philips home page is: http://philip.greenspun.com

• Totem Pole picture by Dodge, Jack and Mary. "picture of Mary at totem pole ." Travel: Americas: US: Alaska, Kenai Fjords. June 2004. jackandmaryetc.com. 07 Apr. 2006 <http://jackmaryetc.com/Travel/US/Alaska/Alaska1.htm>.

• Wearing computer: Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 11, November, 1998 WearComp as a new framework for Intelligent Signal Processing Steve Mann, 1998 (found at http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wearcam.org/wearcomp4small.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wearcam.org/hi/&h=1024&w=700&sz=68&tbnid=vX8sgpcVWZtccM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=102&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwearcomp%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG)


Works citedCopyright source info from web

1. Harper, Georgia. "Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia." Multimedia Fair Use Guideline (CCUMU). University of Texas General Counsel Office. 04 Apr. 2006 <http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/ccmcguid.htm#5>.

2. "Copyright Basics." Copyright Kids!. Copyright Kids. 04 Apr. 2006 <http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm>.

3. "Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." OWL at Purdue University: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format. Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University. 03 Apr. 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html>.

Other resources

• Adams, Kenn. The Story Spine. One source for this is: http://www.creativityzone.ca/ResourceZone_Subpages/Games_Subpages/01.html

• Christenson, Michael. Adapt-a-Map, story map created of an advertisement for Media Literacy class, 2005.

• Microsoft clipart.• Storyboard template: http://www.csupomona.edu/~wcweber/325/storybd.htm

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