"I have to put myself in the place of the writing. I have to become the writing..."
~Adam Mackie~
I.
You can see a digital story below, or what Jason Ohler describes as an activity that "uses personal digital
technology to combine a number of media into a coherent narrative" (15), was conceived, shot,
and edited in less than an hour by Marianne Thomas, Rudy Bryan, and Adam Mackie during a
workshop with Troy Hicks at Colorado State University. Hicks' book, The Digital Writing
Workshop, advocates the use of digital storytelling in the twenty-first century classroom and
provides assessment tools for the purposes of evaluation.
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II.
In the summer of 2010, I completed EDUC331-Technology and Assessment. I created he
below video as an experiment with digital storytelling, with the help of my wife Margaret and
my son Noah. We travelled around to several locations in Fort Collins, including the Wild
Boar Coffee the CSU Gardens, and a restaurant in Old Towne.
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III.
The below story was created as an exercise while attending the CSU Writing Project Advanced
Institutein the summer of 2010. The video was based on the 5Frame story model. Examples of
5Frame stories canalso be viewed on a Ning titled 5Frame Storytelling. A Fort Collins High
School English Teacher and I first created this 5Frame story in iPhoto, added music
and viewed as a slideshow. Later, that same afternoon, we assisted a group of 5th grade
students in the same activity. I then imported what we did into iMovie and uploaded
the YouTube video available below:
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A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-first Century Learner
Adam Mackie
2010