Workshop Resources
DS Worksheet Handout (Translated) DS Worksheet Handout (Eng)
DS Workbook Slides (Translated) DS Workbook Slides (Eng)
DS Workshop Slide Deck (Translated) DS Workshop Presentation Deck (Eng)
DS Posters (Translated) DS Posters (Eng)
DS Mini Activity Worksheet (Translated) DS Mini Activity Worksheet (Eng)
Video examples you can view and use with students.
Docudrama: Pangea....a first person narrative spoken from the voice of the tectonic plates moving and separating to form the current continents.
Book Trailer: The Hunger Games - 3rd Grade student shares her love for the book. Her voice and pacing add the suspense she needed to entice others to read the book .
PSA/Poetry: Road Not Travelled - a recreation of Robert Frost's Poem from a personal perspective,
Personal Narrative: I Am Story - speaking from the Point of View of Story, Nancy Conklin created a personal narrative to explain the creative elements of storytelling.
Paper Slide Show Sample: Goldilocks and 3 Bears - an easy way to start storytelling. Draw the scenes for your story on paper. As a partner records you telling the story, drop a page for each scene. This is just a small portion of the story. Could also be done in a slide show format.
Green Screen: Spooky Halloween - Students created a Halloween Story and using Green Screen by Doink. Students found that they could create the vision of wind by drawing wind marks on green paper and moving it in front of the screen.
Visual StoryTelling: History of World in 2 Minutes - A visual storytelling product produced with purpose and intention. Visuals and audio only....no script.
Articles to help you get started with Digital StoryTelling written by Bernajean Porter
The Art of Digital Storytelling
Getting Started with Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
The 7 Steps and Take 6 Elements help you get started with students by Bernajean Porter
7 StoryMaking Steps by Bernajean Porter
Take 6 Elements of StoryTelling from Creative Educator by Bernajean Porter
Take 6 Elements by Bernajean Porter
Video Tutorials to help you get started with DS
The DSN Training Video at this link https://youtu.be/vF19uAOrf08 is a combination of the 5 listed videos below
Video: Got Story or Not? Do You Know the Difference? (Bernajean Porter shares the power behind StoryTelling)
Video: The Power of Story Starting Story
Video: Getting Started with StoryTelling…the Story
Video: Power of StoryBoard
Video: Power of Voice, Music, Sound
Video: Power of Image in Digital StoryTelling
Below are links to the 3 storyboards created from the poem We Give Thanks.
Each storyboard became a video with a different essence and flavor of the words in the poem. Videos can be used for student or teacher instruction and cannot be copied or reproduced.
We Give Thanks Video Version 1 https://youtu.be/mB4kXNP-pZ8.
We Give Thanks Video Version 1 CC Lithuanian https://youtu.be/qxdv6Yvw2JA
Version 1 with explanation https://youtu.be/u3w_qjvR5K8
We Give Thanks Video Version 2 https://youtu.be/nBHjbMDxZFY
We Give Thanks Video Version 2 CC Lithuanian https://youtu.be/d-mvHK19tL4
Version 2 with explanation https://youtu.be/YBvVzib0Gw8
We Give Thanks Video Version 3 https://youtu.be/b1rS1XXzCvE
We Give Thanks Video Version 3 CC Lithuanian https://youtu.be/HS1s0Lj6rWw
Version 3 with explanation https://youtu.be/QQswTVYfi9w