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Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling. Nicole lanetti. Technology . Storytelling a significant part of history Communication skills Focus: written and spoken words Currently Integrate technology in the classroom Digital storytelling combines basic storytelling with multimedia features 

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Digital Storytelling

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  1. Digital Storytelling Nicole lanetti

  2. Technology • Storytelling a significant part of history • Communication skills • Focus: written and spoken words • Currently • Integrate technology in the classroom • Digital storytelling combines basic storytelling with multimedia features  • use graphics, music and movies as communication • Modern method to teach beliefs and values to others

  3. What is digital storytelling? • Short movie or story/book • 2-10 minutes • Students create a story, choose most important parts (create outline/script), match text with pictures, sound and record their voice to tell the story • Music • Sound effects • Digital photos/clipart/scanned photos • Video possible

  4. Digital Storytelling Continued… • Students share, create or recreate a story, present an idea, an incident, an episode or event • organize findings/thoughts and concepts in a more understandable way • personalize story • Saved/record to CDs and DVD • Upload on YouTube and share • Student and teachers can share their stories/movies on the Internet • give feedback to others • authentic audiences • students will see their work is worth seeing, reading and doing • Intercultural learning • Students can compare their “stories” with people from other cultures and other life experiences

  5. Builds confidence and self-esteem • more confident in their own abilities and their own voices • Capture student attention • Motivation • Enjoy the experience of using technology • Express creativity • student choice • prompts/recreate a known story • Connect student’s lives with new stories • Students reflect on what they know Student Benefits

  6. Learners become involved in their learning • Differentiated learning styles • Research skills • Build/increase understanding of concepts and apply it to a new situation • Improve comprehension of learning content • Higher order thinking skills • The process of composing a story is also a process of meaning-making • Develop/build computer and communication skills More Benefits…

  7. Teachers & School • Learning through a modern classroom method • Integrate with curriculum • Formative and summative assessments • Teacher can assess if students understand how to tell/retell/develop a story with appropriate story elements • Creation of activities provide students the ability to develop problem-solving skills • School budgets and technology resources are often limited in schools • opportunities to access technology daily • Teachers use as visuals/present material to students

  8. Writing Component: • Express creativity and experiment with thoughts and ideas • Improve student writing and critical thinking skills • Method used to teach writing • Take students through the writing process • Essential part of story telling • Student ownership

  9. Classroom Uses: • K/1- whole/small group with assistance • 2nd grade and up…independent/small group • All subject areas • Literacy • Response to a story • Open-ended • Prompts/questions • Narrative/informational writing • Peer collaboration • Student centered approach to learning • Student responsibility • Problem-solving experience

  10. Digital Storytelling Tools iMovie Garageband ComicLife Animoto PhotoStory3 Storyjumper Storybird Bitstrips Zooburst

  11. A Classroom Example 2nd/3rd grade classroom Garageband http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUZXBc6yRhU

  12. Storyjumper • StoryJumper is an interactive website that gives kids and authors fun tools for writing and illustrating stories. • Free to use • Buy bound books for $25 • Share books on Internet • Read books already created (library section) • Upload personal photos/scan hand drawn pictures to use as background

  13. http://www.storyjumper.com/

  14. Activity Time  • Go to… http://www.storyjumper.com/ • Work independently or in a pair • Practice creating a digital story • Topic/Prompt: • Write about a place that had an impact on your life • Tell/create a story

  15. Discussion: What are the pros and cons of using digital storytelling in a classroom? Do you think you would use or in the future use digital storytelling in your classroom? Why or why not?

  16. Resources: Baek, Y., & Hyungsung, Y. (2011). A new approach toward digital storytelling: an activity focused on writing self-efficacy in a virtual learning environment . Educational Technology & Society, 14(4), 181-184. Bellingham, D. (2011). Digital storytelling. Retrieved from http://www.storytell.com.au/digital.html Blair, N. (2012). Technology integration for the new 21st century learner. 8-11. Retrieved from www.naesp.org edteachreview. (2013). The benefits of digital storytelling for teachers and students. Retrieved from http://edtechreview.in/e-learning/370-digital-storytelling-benefits Hung, C., Hwang, G., & Huang, I. (2012). A project-based digital storytelling approach for improving students learning motivation, problem-solving competence and learning achievement Educational Technology & Society , 15(4), 368-370. Matthews-DeNatale, G. (2008). Digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling Tips and Resources, 1-21.

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