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Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling. Dr. Steve Broskoske Misericordia University. Why Stories?. What do you remember from your childhood? Can you retell a story that you read? Have you watched a good movie lately? Can you retell the story?. Humans seem predisposed to hear, remember, and retell stories.

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Digital Storytelling

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  1. Digital Storytelling Dr. Steve Broskoske Misericordia University

  2. Why Stories? • What do you remember from your childhood? • Can you retell a story that you read? • Have you watched a good movie lately? Can you retell the story? Humans seem predisposedto hear, remember, andretell stories.

  3. Why Stories? • The power of stories is that you can hear something once and you remember it. • Why? • Information. • Context. • Emotion. • Engaging, memorable format.

  4. How Are Stories Used in the World? • Non-profit: • Story conveys information in context. • Dramatic info. about people and their situation. • Makes it interesting, personal, and compelling. • Reaches emotional level, which may impact a potential donor. • Cuts through facts, numbers, names, and other information.

  5. How Are Stories Used in the World? SPCA Commercial

  6. How Are Stories Used in the World? • Business: • Create powerful stories about their company to: • Make company seem more “personal” and “human” to public. • Influence public perception of the company. • Create an image for the company. • Recent trend: going green / giving back. • Politics: • Take various elements and create a story (context) to influence public perception of a candidate.

  7. Use of Digital Stories in the Classroom • Multimedia provides a rich, powerful, meaningful set of tools with which students can communicate information. • Can use in place of OR in conjunction with a traditional written assignment. • Create a digital story. • Present the digital story in front of the class. • Do a written assignment.

  8. Benefits to Students • Provides a powerful way to communicate. • Can be more engaging than a traditional assignment. • Practices many skills: • Planning, organizing, sequencing. • Researching. • Gathering and using multimedia resources. • Video clips. • Images (from online, camera, scanner). • Sounds. • Background music. • Audio narration.

  9. Benefits to Students • Writing (to be engaging to particular audience). • Speaking. • Using creativity and artistry. • Using multimedia creation tool such as PhotoStory (or PowerPoint, MovieMaker, or iMovie).

  10. Benefits to Students • All six of the National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for students are addressed by digital storytelling. • Creativity and innovation • Communication and collaboration • Research and information fluency • Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making • Digital citizenship • Technology operations and concepts

  11. Digital Storytelling Resources • A user could utilize PowerPoint, MovieMaker, or iMovie to create a digital story. • Microsoft has also created PhotoStory, a free application for K-12 digital storytelling. Listing of Software forDigital Storytelling Resources(tutorials, rubrics, & more)

  12. Comparison of Tools

  13. Digital Storytelling Examples • Most digital storytelling applications are designed to be easy and intuitive to use. Thus, the student focuses on the product rather than a computer program. • Let’s view an example to experience what digital stories are like. K-6 Digital Story Examples PhotoStory Examples

  14. Downloading Resources • If needed, download Microsoft PhotoStory. • Although the software is intuitive and easy to use, navigate to the following resources as needed. Microsoft Resources forDigital Storytelling DownloadMicrosoft PhotoStory Microsoft PhotoStory Tutorial

  15. Steps in Creating a PhotoStory • Photos: Import all of your pictures. • Text: Add text (right) and picture effects (under graphic). • Narration: Make notes to speak from, and then record your narration. • Create graphic motion effects (under graphic). • Music: Select or create music.

  16. Steps in Creating a PhotoStory • Saving in Photostory format: • Select “save project.” • Saving for playback on any device: • Select “save project for playback on your computer.” • Saves as a .wmv (Windows movie file).

  17. ASSIGNMENT • Individually, let’s build a sample story to enable you to experience how a student would use the software and the techniques involved. • Upload to BlackBoard, module 5.

  18. Choosing a Topic • Tell a story about one of the following: • The harmful effects of an addictive behavior (such as drugs, smoking, diet, gambling, etc.). • Retell a story that you know (fairytale, story from a movie you watched, book). • Describe a great vacation that you were on OR a great place to visit. • Tell the story of someone you admire (a well-known figure or someone you know personally). • Other.

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