By: Erica Arnold & Sam Bragg Digital Storytelling By: Erica Arnold & Sam Bragg

“I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with them.” -Jason Ohlar Author: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity

Digital Storytelling What is it? What should you know about it? What are the effects on student learning? How? Where can we use it? Examples of Digital Stories Sources (suppliers)

What is it? Digital Story: A short, first person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds. Center for Digital Storytelling www.storycenter.org

What should you know about it? Most students generate electronic content to share so digital stories work well to interest students because they are probably creating them for “fun” anyway.www.educause.edu.eli There are many multimedia technologies that are used in the process. www.educause.edu.eli These stories can take weeks to work on depending on how you schedule the time. Porter, Bernajean

What are the effects on student learning? Educational benefits: engagement with real world issues, careful analysis, investment in their own performance, conflict resolution, community connections. Student’s grades go up. Students are less likely to be absent when working together on long term projects. Using this process students dig deeper into the subjects. Keeps students engaged! Microsoft

How? Pre-production Phase - Writing the Script - Planning the Project - Organizing Folders Production Phase - Recording the Voiceover - Gather, create, edit media resources - Organize for copyright use of media Post-production: Putting it all Together - Create rough cut first and final cut last - Show the work Porter, Bernajean

Where can we use it? English – students can write and create their own fictional story. Science – students can use digital storytelling to present a science project. Social Studies – students can research and present a “piece” of history. Math – students can “teach” other students how to complete a mathematical process.

Examples of Digital Stories: My Iligan This is the first place winner of a digital story contest in the Philippines open to high school and college students. The entries of the digital stories were to be autobiographical and illustrative of one’s connection to Illigan City. Watch It Here

Examples of Digital Stories Continued . . . My Life as a Sixth Grader This is a digital story entry from the “Life Round Here Digital Story Project”. The question that had to be answered in the digital story was, “Tell us, what is it really like to go to your school?” Watch It Here

Sources: Photostory 3 for Windows easy-to-use program you can download for free lets you create slideshows using your own digital photos and images you download from the web or scan from old photographs, documents, books, magazines or newspapers you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures, add special effects, music, and your own narration to your photo stories University of Houston Digital Storytelling Website

Sources: Windows Movie Maker a video creating/editing software application included in Microsoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. its replacement, Windows Live Movie Maker, is included with Windows Live Essentials, a free download from Windows Live Wikipedia

Sources: iMovie Apple's answer to Photo Story has most of the same features as Photo Story, however, it also supports the use of full-motion video clips. like Photos Story 3, iMovie lets users add titles, effects, and transitions to their digital story projects. not free, but usually comes installed on new Macs University of Houston Digital Storytelling Website

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe “Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” -Native American Proverb