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Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling. Technology That Makes Written Products Powerful. What is Digital Storytelling. Digital story telling combines the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia tools such as: graphics audio video animation web publishing

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Digital Storytelling

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  1. Digital Storytelling Technology That Makes Written Products Powerful

  2. What is Digital Storytelling • Digital story telling combines the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia tools such as: • graphics • audio • video animation • web publishing • A digital story is a two to four minute digital video clip • most often told in first person narrative • recorded with your own voice • illustrated mostly with still images • with an optional music track to add emotional tone.

  3. Educational Goals • For Teachers: • Appeals to the diverse learning styles • Generates interest, attention, and motivation • Capitalizes on the creative talents of your students • For Students: • Learn to use the Internet to research while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content • Develop communications skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives, and write for an audience • Increases computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: • text • still images • audio • video • web publishing

  4. Getting Started • Download program: • Microsoft PhotoStory: www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx • Online tutorials • Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/gettingstarted.htm • Get your hands dirty

  5. What do I put into a Digital PhotoStory? • The Center for Digital Storytelling has identified Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling • A Point (of View) • A Dramatic Question • Emotional Content • The Gift of Your Voice • The Power of The Soundtrack • Economy • Pacing

  6. How do I grade a Digital PhotoStory? • Pay attention to the written product • Create a grading rubric specfic to the written product that goes along with the PhotoStory • 6 traits • Create a Rubric for the PhotoStory • Sample rubric • RubiStar Home

  7. Examples of PhotoStories • Free Spirit by Julia, an 8th grade student • The Beginning by Charlene Paskoski - Created as an introduction for 7th grade science students • Twist on the Civil War, created by Emily Hobgood for 5th grade teachers at NPS as another view on the war between the states • See Twist on the Civil War as a work in progress

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