Digital Storytelling workshops make use of PhotoStory 3 and MovieMaker for Windows computers.

 

Why Digital Storytelling? (Stone Soup Comic about education.doc)

Project-based Learning (See Richard Lippman's note "A Change in Paradigm")

21st Century Skills (See David Jakes comments on Visual Literacy and 21st Century Skills)

Standards-based education

 

7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling involves combining narrative with digital content to create a short movie. Digital stories can include interactive movies with highly produced audio and visual effects or presentation slides with narration or music. Some learning theorists believe that as a pedagogical technique, storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively require one to think carefully about the topic and the audience's perspective. (from Educause as a PDF pamphlet)

 

Procedures for Creating a Digital Story

Brief Steps to create a digital story

Establish groups, roles and design assessment instrument

     * Cooperative learning rubrics are toward the bottom of this page

Coop Role playing cards.pub  - "business cards" for spelling out the roles of Director, Producer, Storybook Artist, etc.

Creat Rubrics:  See Recipes4Success (in IDEAL), PBL Checklist, Rubistar (Span & English)

Storyboard

Shoot

Move images from a camera to the computer

Narrate and/or add music

Save and Publish

 

Storyboards 

http://www.jasonohler.com/pdfs/digitalStorytellingStoryBoard.pdf

Seven Elements of a Story http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/images/storyboard.pdf

Storyboarding Explanation in Comic form http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/Storyboarding.html

 

Software How-tos

How to use PhotoStory 3.

Where to download PhotoStory3.

How to use MovieMaker

 

Sample Stories 

A Trip to the Moon

Hiroshima

Amy's Story

My Shoes and others 

 

Evaluating Digital Products

From Bernajean Porter, Digitales http://www.digitales.us/

Nine (9) Traits for Scoring - Bernajean Porter combines nine scoring traits with fourteen different types of communication to give educators a versatile scoring guide tailored to specific objectives.

 

Scoring Traits

Part I: Content Communication 

Preparation Process

Content Knowledge

Format / Organization

Part II: Craftsmanship of Communication

Text Communication

Image Communication

Voice / Sound Communication

Design of Communication

Presentation Communication

Interactivity of Communication

 

Rubrics for Evaluation of Cooperative Products

  

From Kathy Schrock's Compilation

Collaboration and Learning Skills Rubrics

Collaboration Rubric 1

Collaboration Rubric 2

Collaboration Rubric 3

Collaboration Rubrics Collection

Cooperative Learning Rubric: Process

Independent Learning Skills Rubric (Gr. 1-4)

Learning Skills Rubric

Learning Skills Rubric 2

Middle School/High School Collaboration/Teamwork Rubric<

Primary Level Collaboration/Teamwork Rubric

Upper Elementary Collaboration/Teamwork Rubric 

http://www.phschool.com/professional_development/assessment/rub_coop_process.html

From Intel Education: Assessing Projects at http://educate.intel.com/en/assessingprojects/

Stategies for encouraging self-direction and collaboration: http://educate.intel.com/en/AssessingProjects/AssessmentStrategies/EncouragingSelfDirectionAndCollaboration/

Examples of Assessment Plans: http://educate.intel.com/en/AssessingProjects/AssessmentPlans/

 

 

Additional Resources:

 

Digital Storytelling (click here for another workshop that used digital storytelling resources) 

Center for Digital Storytelling http://storycenter.org - example stories and tutorials through Berkeley

Digital Stories Showcase http://www.digitalstories.org/

Educational Uses of Digital Story-Telling http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/introduction.htm

Voice Thread for Digital Storytelling and Narrated Slideshows http://voicethread.com/#home

Voice Thread Examples http://21stwriting.wordpress.com/voice-thread/

Digital Images Resources Online - DI4Peak

I have recently discovered several really great websites/blogs with many resources for digital storytelling. You might want to explore these sites.

Crafting Digital Tales and More with Web-based Tools by Miguel Guhlin (includes tips for both Macs and PCs and information about VoiceThread which is a very popular, new tool for storytelling)

http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/share/index.php?n=Anthology.Dstorywebbas...

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer for digital storytelling (many great links, tutorials and examples)

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/digitalstorytelling

This site has a lot of very good lesson plans for writing that include options for creating movies, videos or slideshows of stories.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/author_detail.asp?authorid=143&les...

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story by Alan Levine (click on the link for 50 Stories about Dominoe)

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

Using Technology to Tell Stories by Kevin Hodgson

http://techstories.edublogs.org/

Another site by Kevin from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project

Digital Storytelling--tutorial, examples, rubrics, lessons and resources

http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/Digital%20Storytelling%20M...

Integrating Digital Storytelling in your Classroom (lots of resources, tutorials and examples)

http://its.ksbe.edu/dst/

 

This is a great website by David Jakes with links to articles and resources about the process of digital storytelling, and how to get the most out of this terrific learning experience for students. There are lots of excellent resources for both Macs and PCs for the entire digital storytelling experience including articles, examples, videos, standards and many downloadable documents.

JakesOnline-Digital Storytelling

http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

 

Equipment

Equipment used during the workshop includes:

     Digital still camera for acquiring individual photos for PhotoStory or MovieMaker

     Digital camcorder for capturing video into MovieMaker

 

Optional Equipment, but very nice to have: Tripod

 

Software:

     PowerPoint, PhotoStory 3, MovieMaker II, Audacity, iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, etc...