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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)   Why Digital Storytelling? (Stone Soup Comic about education.doc)  (See David Jakes comments on Visual Literacy and 21st Century Skills)

Sample Stories

Digitales StoryKeeper's Gallery

A Trip to the Moon        Hiroshima         Amy's Story            My Shoes

Center for Digital StoryTelling

BBC Wales Digital Storytelling Project     Story Samples from Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum

Using the rubric, evaluate at least one sample

1. What parts of the story touch you?
2. What images in the story most grabbed you?
3. What reaction to the story would you like to share with the storyteller?  from evaluating... by BJPorter

Procedures (in brief) for Creating a Digital Story

1. Focus Ideas (click for ideas)  Prompts

7 Elements of Digital Storytelling     Story Circle Process/Protocol     Story Circle Example & Prompts

2. Establish groups, roles and cooperative learning structures

3. Create Rubrics:  See Recipes4Success (in IDEAL), PBL Checklist, Rubistar (Span & English)

4. Storyboard

4. Shoot or find the images online with copyright free or fair use pictures

5. Narrate and/or add music

6. Save and Publish

Story Categories

Bernajean Porter's Digitales.us - 14 Types of Communication

Storyboards 

Storyboard Sample (Completed template and video)

The Most Basic from AZK12 Center Tech Camp

Karen J. Lloyd's Storyboard Templates (free samples at the bottom of the page)

Printable Paper Templates - cancel the sign-up popup to continue

Elements to include: image, narrative, transition type, music, approx duration, music

 If using, specify: sound effects, title text on slide, panning effect

Software How-tos

PhotoStory3 Tutorial by millie.furman.edu   All About PhotoStory from Microsoft  Download PhotoStory3

How to use MovieMaker

iMovie Tutorial or iMovie-Make a Movie

Using Comic Life & ideas for stories

Cooperative Learning 

Coop Role playing cards.pub  - Coop Role playing cards2.pdf  "business cards" for Director, Producer, Storybook Artist, etc. * Cooperative learning rubrics are toward the bottom of this page

Evaluating Digital Products

PBLChecklist from 4Teachers.org

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: 

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

   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 Across the Curriculum from Adobe Educator Exchange

Digital Media Kits from Kitzu

CogDogRoom Resources, Workshop and Getting Started

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

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)

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...