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Digital Storytelling in the L2
Composition Classroom
Joel BlochThe Ohio State University
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What is a Digital
Story
Personal StoryImages + Text + Music?
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New Technologies, Old
QuestionsNew Kinds of Users
New kinds of jobs
New kinds of literacies
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Promote new forms of perception?
Promote deeper forms of learning?
Promote new relationships with audience?
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The Uses of Digital Story TellingK-12 Curriculum
University
Curricu
lum
School/University Identity
Comm
unity P
roject
s
Writing Instruction
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Story TypesCharacter Stories Interesting people
Memorial Stories Father, parents
Adventure Stories
Accomplishment Stories
Graduated from high school
The Story About a Place in My Life
Hometowns
The Story About What I Do
Career Choice
Recovery Stories Cancer and trials
Love Stories
Marriage, Family
Discovery Stories
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Rhetorical
PurposesArgumentative Political issues
Image (school, department)Cultural Differences
Descriptive Careers, family, interestsInfluential People
Emotional Recovery
Epedietic Family
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Center for Digital Storytelling
Digital Stories at Ohio State
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Why I am Interested in Digital Stories in the L2 composition classroom
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The relationship between
oral and written speech
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Gaining a se
nse of
identit
y in w
ritin
g
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The
development of
multim
edia
forms of
literacy
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Integrating elements of various forms of
digital literacy
Podcasti
ng
Movie m
akerVisual literacy
Text
s
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Remix
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Goals for the use
of Digital Stories
Help develop rhetorical skills for academic
writing
Help understand the nature of digital
literacy
Remix text, images, audio
Take advantage of an alternative, more oral
form of academic writing
Have a little more fun?
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Elements of the Writing Process
Invention
Creatio
nRevision
Editing
Publishing
Integrating Music with Text/images
Images Text
Text ImagesImages
Text musi
c
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Integrating Images and text
Influence of my father
Medic M
My father in the war
D-day
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Paris
Family
Friends
Daddy/Daughter
Social Process of WritingCollaboration through story groups
Publishing and Sharing
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Evaluation
•Learning the creative process
through identifying the strengths
and weaknesses of others’ work.
•Collaborating with others to
develop their work
•Being able to evaluate own work
•Gaining a sense of identity in one’s
work.
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Transferability???
Thinking about Technologies
Interaction of Technologies
Text/images/audio
The choice of a technology
Imovie/Movie maker/audacity
Effect of Introducing a technology into a writing classroom
Getting students conformableThinking visually/aurally
The implementation of a technology
Integrating with writing curriculumDesigning Lesson plans
Support Equipment/Help
The role of technology and literacy
Assessing what the students learned about writing. 23
Understanding
Copyright and
Intellectual
Property•The citation of intellectual property
•The concept of fair use•The role of open source and Creative Commons
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Assessment
How do we evaluate student digital stories?
How does digital story telling fit into our overall writing curriculum?
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New Forms of Literacy
Divides
A new kind of digital divide ten
years from now will separate those
who can use these new media to
band together from those who
don’t.
- Howard Rheingold (2003).
Research Questions to think about?•How does one form of literacy enhance other forms of literacy?
•Can the rhetorical strategies be transferred from digital story telling to other forms of writing?
•What does digital story telling tell us about digital literacy?
•Can digital story telling be taught collaboratively? 27
Some Useful
Resources Ed Tech Talk
Digital StorytellingTips and ResourcesGail Matthews-DeNatale,
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