Digital Storytelling – everything you ever wanted to know!

1. Medical Education Unit School of Medicine Digital Storytelling – everything you ever wanted to know! John Sandars Senior Lecturer / Academic lead for e-learning j.e.sandars@leeds.ac.uk Christopher Murray ELP Project Officer c.murray@leeds.ac.uk

2. What is digital storytelling?

3. A digital story is a story created by the use of multimedia (Video, photographs and sound)

4. Why digital?

5. A new type of learner ! Digital natives Learning styles - VAK Learn, work, play and shop differently Use of new technologies - Web 2.0 / mobile phones

6. Why storytelling?

7. Stories convey meanings, thoughts, emotions and ideas

8. Whydigital storytelling?

9. “digital storytelling is a highly motivating strategy that can make reflection concrete and visible” Barrett HC Researching and Evaluating Digital Storytelling as a Deep Learning Tool helenbarrett.com/portfolios/SITEStorytelling2006.pdf

10. The opportunity to be creative can liberate many learners and enable tacit aspects of self identity to be revealed David Gauntlett Creative Explorations 2007

11. The power of the visual

12. Center for Digital Storytelling Center for Digital Storytelling Berkeley, California 1993 Joe Lambert + Dana Atchley Visions: They believe in the transformative power of narrative. They want to democratise new media.

13. The classic form Digital Stories are 3 – 5 minute movies consisting of the author’s images and video coordinated with a voiceover to tell a story. The story is enhanced using a soundtrack.

14. ‘Digital Storytelling’ is a method and a movement to give people a voice by the use of computer tools (Lambert 2002) Digital Storytelling is a genre of self-representational mini-films, told in first person. The multimodality of digital media offers additional power.

15. 1. Everyone has a powerful story to tell. 2. Stories unveil themselves in the encounter with an audience. The Story Circle 3. We all see, hear, and perceive the world in different ways, making our stories different. 4. Creative activity is human activity. Telling stories is part of this creativity. 5. The computer, with all its limitations, is a powerful instrument for creativity.

16. The seven elements of storytelling 1: Point (of View) 2: Dramatic Question 3: Emotional Content 4: The Gift of Your Voice 5: The Power of the Soundtrack 6: Economy 7: Pacing

17. BBC Wales DS are not like any other previous form of broadcast material “… for the first time contributors are not just originating their own material, for the first time they are editing it too”. Daniels Meadows

19. What is the effect of digital storytelling?

20. The Digital Faith Stories The Digital Faith Stories follow the format outlined at the Centre for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in California These stories are mediated self-representations. They are topical autobiographies, or personal narratives. The American folklorist Sandra Stahl defines a personal narrative as ‘a single-episode personal story’ (Stahl 1989:13). Constructing Digital Stories on Faith and Life – An experiment in religious education Birgit Hertzberg Kaare & Knut Lundbyi Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo

21. Quotes from the young storytellers “ It was not difficult, but exiting to learn something new. I feel cool making my own film”. “I think that what is really fine with a digital story, is that instead of having a lot of memories in the head all the time, you can put them on a ‘tape’ and show them to others. It is so much in your head all the time that is never transmitted to others”. “‘Pictures say more than a thousand words’. That is what I have heard. […] When I look at the pictures, I get ideas or remember things“.

22. Plenty of unanswered questions? John Sandars j.e.sandars@leeds.ac.uk