What is Digital Storytelling?

According to Wikipedia,

"Digital Storytelling" is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games).

As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling

More About Digital Storytelling

• Center for Digital Storytelling

• Top Ten Reasons for Digital Storytelling

• The Photography Channel: Cinematic Storytelling for the Modern Media

Elements of digital storytelling

From Storycenter.org

• 1. Point of View

  2. Dramatic Question

  3. Emotional Content

  4. Your Voice

  5. Soundtrack

  6. Economy

  7. Pacing

Process of Digital Storytelling

In the classroom:

• 1. Write

  2. Revise

  3. Storyboard

     1. http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Pages/Storyboard.pdf

        1. Storyboard generator: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/storyboard/

     2. http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/storyboard.pdf

In computer lab, classroom computer, or at home

• 1. Obtain resources (images, audio clips, etc.)

  2. Create the digital story

  3. Add images, text, audio clips, & video

  4. Share (in class or on the web)

Copyright Issues with Digital Media

• My Diigo Links on Copyright

• My Diigo Links on Fair Use

• My Diigo Links on Creative Commons

Connection to the standards

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

• Digital Storytelling for the Science Classroom

Classroom Management & Integration

• Digital Storytelling Lesson Plan

• A Practical Classroom Management Strategy

• Video Production for Students

• Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Evaluating Digital Stories

• • Sample rubrics http://techteachers.com/digstory/gradclass/rubrics.htm

  • Developing Assessments http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/assessment.cfm

Tools for Creating Digital Stories

• • Video

    • • iMovie

        • • Apple Manual: iMovie '08 Getting Started

• • • • • Exhaustive Tutorial for iMovie

        • iMovie '08 Quick Shortcuts'

• • • Windows Moviemaker

    • Photostory

• • Audio

• • • Garageband

    • Audacity

• • Images

• • • iPhoto

    • Picassa (Google)

Sources for Media

Free Sources

• • Bernie Dodge's Webquest Site http://webquest.org/freemedia.htm

  • Image Appropriate Sites (Google Custom Search Engine created by Ken Shelton)

  • Search Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/

  • KITZU.com http://www.kitzu.com/

  • Standards-aligned packages of media that are content specific. Free resource from the Orange County Department of Education.

  • Photo Express http://www.photoxpress.com/

• Stock.Xchng

• Flickr www.flickr.com

Flickr Search Sites

• Compfight

• Behold

• Search high quality pictures on Flickr

• Flickrstorm

• Flickr Color Selector

• Search Flickr photos by color

• Simple CC Flickr Search

• Another Creative Commons Flickr search site

Paid or Subscription Services

• Photospin

• istockphoto

My Diigo Digital Storytelling Links