Digital Storytelling Participants will become familiar with digital storytelling tools in order to integrate digital storytelling into a lesson. 

tinyurl.com/DLUStory Resources

Quick Write: What are all the ways that students encounter storytelling on a daily basis?

BENEFITS Storytelling requires: Creativity and inventive thinking Multiple intelligences / learning styles Visual literacy Technical literacy Effective communication Evaluating effective communication Teaming and Collaboration Project management mentality Enduring understanding BENEFITS

Personal Narratives: help us reflect on where we've been, what we've learned, and illustrate our journeys of discovery. Historical Documentaries:  require research and the ability to synthesize a large amount of information into the most important and educationally useful information. Content Area Stories: created specifically to deliver instructional content on various topics such as history, culture, math, science, or language arts. TYPES  

PROCESS Write the narrative Plan the project 1 Write the narrative 2 Plan the project 3 Gather and prepare resources 4 Put it all together PROCESS

Scholastic Story Starters PicLits* STORY STARTERS Emoji Prompts Scholastic Story Starters PicLits* Write the Narrative STORY STARTERS * Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

Explain the tool. How could this tool be used to “write the narrative”?

Plan the Project STORYBOARD BCPS Video Production Guide: Storyboarding

COPYRIGHT FRIENDLY Gather and Prepare Resources In addition to online sources, students can use the camera in their device to take their own photos and videos, or recorder for audio recordings. And many tools have built-in clip art.

Account-Free, Web-based STORY MAKERS ABCya! Story Maker* My Storymaker RWT Comic Creator ABCya! Animate* Make Beliefs Comix* Storyboard That Flip Anim Pull it All Together Account-Free, Web-based STORY MAKERS For some of these tools the students would have to complete their project in one sitting and if a save/print option isn’t available without an account, they would have to use a screenshot tool to save their work. * Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

Other STORY MAKERS Story Jumper Storybird* Wixie* Kids Story Builder* Movie Moments* Sway VoiceThread* Movie Maker* Pull it All Together Other STORY MAKERS For Story Jumper and Storybird, teachers may create accounts for their students using student initials or anonymized usernames. * Denotes a tool with a support page on the Innovative Learning Wiki

STORY TELLING CHALLENGE

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