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Digital Storytelling :. Increasing Student Involvement and Creativity. Why Digital Storytelling?. Active student involvement Use it to review a topic Use it for compare/contrast assignments Use it to enliven student presentations of new topics Allows for greater creativity
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Digital Storytelling: Increasing Student Involvement and Creativity
Why Digital Storytelling? • Active student involvement • Use it to review a topic • Use it for compare/contrast assignments • Use it to enliven student presentations of new topics • Allows for greater creativity • Appeals to the student audience (visual and auditory stimulation) Tell them a story!
Digital Storytelling • Use Story Maps to Guide Students • Have Students Focus on Creating a Good Script • “You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script - easily. I've seen that happen before, but you can't do it the other way around” (George Clooney) • Still versus moving images
Tools to Use: • 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story: • CogDogRoo • What we’ve used: • Toondoo • Xtranormal • Comic Life • Animoto • Digital Video Cameras – Movie Maker 2
Toondoo • Digital Storytelling Examples: • Tell the story of the Boxer Rebellion • Toondoo • Student Example: • Boxer Rebellion
Xtranormal • Digital Storytelling Examples: • Goal: Choose one area of criminology and tell the story of what Sociologists have learned about that crime and those who commit it. • Xtranormal • Student example: • Prostitution • FDR Helps Obama: New Deal vs. Stimulus Package
Comic Life • Digital Storytelling Example: Imperialism • Goal: Tell the story of one important event that occurred during U.S. Imperialism • Comic Life: Software subscription • Student Example: • Hawaii
Animoto • Digital Storytelling Example: Vietnam War • Goal: Tell the story of at least one aspect of the Vietnam War • Animoto • Student Examples • Vietnam War Music Video: embedded text • 2nd Example: Creative beginning
Movie Maker 2 • Digital Storytelling Example: The New Deal • Goal: Compare and contrast FDR’s New Deal and President Obama’s proposed Stimulus Package • Student Example: • FDR/Obama Rap
Digital Storytelling Resources: • Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers • Seventeen Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread in the Classroom • Digitales: The Art of Digital Storytelling • Storyboard: Collaborative Storytelling • The Digital Narrative: How to teach digital storytelling • Box of Tricks: A-Z Internet Resources for Education