Tell Me A Digital Story!

A special project

for my special students

What will I learn?

• What is digital storytelling?

• Why digital storytelling?

• How does this work with our class?

• Examples of digital storytelling

• The tools to create your digital story

What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch!

• MOMNOTMOM - A Story– (http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html)

• A personal tale – (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2)

• Holocaust– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24)

What did all the stories have in

common?

Why Digital Storytelling?• “a short, personal multimedia tales told from the

heart“ (Daniel Meadows)• form of digital expression, stories can be created

by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.

• digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows)

Your Project

• Choose a person, place or event that you want to research and then tell its story

• Research

• Write the story

• Download the graphics

• Put it all together using storytelling software

Content

• Tells someone or something or some place’s story

• Told from the perspective of the person telling the story

• NOT a report; this is their STORY

Length

• You only have 1 written page and 3 total minutes to tell their story

• Succinct and to the point• Pictures display a tone, feeling, and

communicate beyond what you are saying

Examples• Dust Bowl

– (http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm)• A Personal Tale

– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2)• Coal Mine Explosion

– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43)

Tools

Brainstorming worksheet (K

WQN) KWQN with your research notes

Storyboard

Script

Graphics Narration

MusicPhoto Story 3 or i-Movie

Creativity and hard work!

click here to go to end of show

click on words for a visual of tool

Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

Tell me a fact and I’ll learnTell me a truth and I’ll believe

Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever