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Seeing is Believing: Using Multimedia to Engage All Learners

Seeing is Believing: Using Multimedia to Engage All Learners

Kathy Corder

Jan Graham

Jennifer Womble

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Expectations of this Week’s Workshop

Introductions

•Review and discuss elements of Digital Storytelling

•Create a digital story using Photo Story 3 using digital images from camera, scanned pictures, and/or Internet.

•Create a lesson plan which incorporates digital storytelling.

•For interested persons, explore uses of Audacity, Podomatic, and Movie Maker.

•Implement lesson plan first nine weeks.

•Share results at fall follow-up meeting.

Workshop Objectives

Digital Storytelling

Digital story telling is a medium that combines the art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including pictures, video, narrative, and music.

Elements of a Digital Story

1.Overall Purpose of the Story2.Narrator’s Point of View3.A Dramatic Question (or Questions)4.Emotional Content 5.The Gift of your Voice6.Meaningful Soundtrack7.Economy or Quality of the Images8.Pacing

Types of Digital Stories

1. Hero or Character Stories2. Life-changing Events 3. Personal stories, i.e. challenges,

adventures, accomplishments, etc.4. An Important Decision5. Biographical or autobiographical Family

Stories6. Stories about Place

Writing Activity: Fork-in-the Road

In our lives, there are moments, decisive moments, when the direction of our lives was pointed in a given direction, and because of the events of the moment, we are going in another direction. Poet Robert Frost shared this concept simply as “The Road Not Taken.” The date of a major achievement, the time there was a particularly bad setback, meeting a special person, the birth of a child, the end of a relationship, the death of a love one are all examples of these fork-in-the-road experiences. Right now, at this second, write about a decisive moment in your life. You have 10 minutes.

Share with a Partner: PQP

1. Praise: “I like this part because…”2. Question: Ask a question about

something that isn’t clear or about which you are curious.

3. Polish: “If you choose to finish this piece,

• you could add more details about the setting.”

• I’d like to see a clearer picture about this character.”

• I would enjoy more sensory descriptions about….”

Homework Using the draft you created today, highlight key

words which can be illustrated by a photograph or image.

At home, collect digital images from your camera or computer or photographs which illustrate the words you have selected.

Bring any pictures in a large labeled envelope to be scanned tomorrow. Limit yourself to 10-15 photographs.

If you have a scanner and know how to scan, it would be great if you could scan the pictures at home and bring them on a thumb drive or CD. We have 30 participants so scanning will take a long time.