Digital Storytelling Workshop (Jan 14 & 21, 2009)

Part 1

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)

Steps to Digital Storytelling

• 7 Steps to Creating a Digitales Story, 50+ Ways to Tell a Web 2.0 Story
• Brief Steps
  • Storyboard
  • Shoot
  • Move images from a camera to the computer
  • Narrate and/or add music
  • Save and Publish

Task for Wednesday, January 14th:

Use a series of 4 or 5 photos with narration to represent:

Hint* Before you start, you may want to shoot a picture of a solid color to serve as a backdrop to titles and credits.

1. Spend 5 to 10 minutes gathering photos
2. Connect the camera and use Picassa to import pictures into a folder under your name(s) on the computer.
3. Open Photostory to begin narrating your photos.
4. Save the Photostory design and export the story as a movie (into your folder).

How to use PhotoStory 3.

Where to download PhotoStory3.

Part 2

Present Student Work

Volunteers agreed to give it a try over the next week and present the results on January 21st.

Classroom Management

The one computer classroom idea is baaack! How do you manage student access to the laptop?

More Ideas

Illustrating a single concept with images is a beginning.

How do you get your students to do deeper thinking?

What are other ways to involve students in creating high-quality products?