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Tell Me A Digital Story!. A special project for my special students. What will I learn?. What is digital storytelling? Why digital storytelling? How does this work with our class? Examples of digital storytelling The tools to create your digital story.
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Tell Me A Digital Story! A special project for my special students
What will I learn? • What is digital storytelling? • Why digital storytelling? • How does this work with our class? • Examples of digital storytelling • The tools to create your digital story
What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch! • MOMNOTMOM - A Story • (http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html) • A personal tale • (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2) • Holocaust • (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24)
Why Digital Storytelling? • “a short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart“ (Daniel Meadows) • form of digital expression, stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world. • digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows)
Your Project • Choose a person, place or event that you want to research and then tell its story • Research • Write the story • Download the graphics • Put it all together using storytelling software
Content • Tells someone or something or some place’s story • Told from the perspective of the person telling the story • NOT a report; this is their STORY
Length • You only have 1 written page and 3 total minutes to tell their story • Succinct and to the point • Pictures display a tone, feeling, and communicate beyond what you are saying
Examples • Dust Bowl • (http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm) • A Personal Tale • (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2) • Coal Mine Explosion • (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43)
click on words for a visual of tool Tools Brainstorming worksheet (KWQN) Storyboard KWQN with your research notes Graphics Narration Music Creativity and hard work! Photo Story 3 or i-Movie Script click here to go to end of show
Tell me a fact and I’ll learnTell me a truth and I’ll believeTell me a story and I’ll remember it forever