A special project for my special students Tell Me A Digital Story! A special project for my special students

What will I learn? What is digital storytelling? Why digital storytelling? How does this work with our class? Examples of digital storytelling The tools to create your digital story There are many definitions of digital storytelling, but in general, all of them revolve around the combining the long-standing art of telling stories with any variety of multimedia tools including graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.

What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch! MOMNOTMOM - A Story (http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html) A personal tale (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2) Holocaust (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24)

What did all the stories have in common? Open Inspiration and brainstorm Theme-personal, multimedia personal narrative Music in background Narration Pictures Photos Drawings Paintings Purpose Motivation/connection Video Text Fade to black

Why Digital Storytelling? “a short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart“ (Daniel Meadows) form of digital expression, stories can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world. digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows) Share Youth Voices Coast to Coast blog.

Your Project Choose a person, place or event that you want to research and then tell its story Research Write the story Download the graphics Put it all together using storytelling software

Content Tells someone or something or some place’s story Told from the perspective of the person telling the story NOT a report; this is their STORY This is a shift for many of us and many of our students – those of us who have been coached to distance ourselves and keep to de-emotionalized perspectives. It is hard though to cast aside years of non-personal writing experiences and embrace creating something of a personal nature. But a story that deals with the fundamental emotional paradignms – of death and our sense of loss, of love and loneliness, of confidence and vulnerability, of acceptance and rejection – will increase the likelihood that you’re going to hold an audience’s attention.

Length You only have 1 written page and 3 total minutes to tell their story Succinct and to the point Pictures display a tone, feeling, and communicate beyond what you are saying In spoken work or written narrative, we’re operating at a high rate of closure as we are filling in all the pictures suggested by a text or words from images and memories in our brains…Example (Once upon a midnight dreary…) With digital storytelling the images generally exist prior to a script, as in a family album. But there’s no right way: script vs. images first. Just don’t linger too long with either. The trick is to let the reader fill in some of the missing pieces. Example: Ken Burns effect. How long do you want to look at a person talking? Better to take a quick glance; then go to images that fill in enhance the person’s story. Use Mary Tsukamoto clip

Examples Dust Bowl A Personal Tale Coal Mine Explosion (http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm) A Personal Tale (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2) Coal Mine Explosion (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43)

click on words for a visual of tool click here to go to end of show Tools Brainstorming worksheet (KWQN) Storyboard KWQN with your research notes Graphics Narration Music Creativity and hard work! Every storyteller has his/her own pace. The story itself may dictate the pace: Fast paced can suggest urgency, action, exasperation, excitement Conversely, Slow-paced suggest contemplation, romanticism, relaxation, or simple pleasures. Pace might change – e.g., race to the hospital, birth of child, the miracle of it all. Photo Story 3 or i-Movie Script click here to go to end of show

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Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

Tell me a fact and I’ll learn Tell me a truth and I’ll believe Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever