Building and Storytelling

Why use Digital Stories?

• information literacies including identifying and synthesizing relevant material

• technology literacies including seamlessly working with a variety of hardware and software tools (cameras, audio recorders, apps) to construct a digital story

• visual literacies including integrating appropriate media in support of a written narrative

• oral/aural literacies including reading a story in first person and selecting complementary music for a story

• social literacies including communicating one’s story and sharing in accepted outlets

Methods of Digital Storytelling:

• Using a traditional story arc or story pyramid - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion - all with characters who experience conflict and tension

• Demonstrating learning from a reading or research in the form of a story, documentary, etc.

• Short narratives with multi-media elements

• Use story starters or "hands-on" building activities to jump start story telling i.e. through Legos, Play-Doh, 3-D printing, etc.

Technology Tools to Create Comics/Graphic Novels:

• Comic Life 3 - $29.99 (iOS)

• Comic Book - $2.99 (iOS)

• Filters Lab - Photo Effects - Free (iOS)

Technology Tools that Create a Full "Movie" - narration, images, video clips, transitions, annotations/captions, music, etc.

• Adobe Express (iOS)

• iMovie (iOS)