Increasing Student Involvement and Creativity

 Active student involvement  Use it to review a topic  Use it for compare/contrast assignments  Use it to enliven student presentations of new topics  Allows for greater creativity  Appeals to the student audience (visual and auditory stimulation) Tell them a story!

 Use Story Maps to Guide Students  Have Students Focus on Creating a Good Script ◦ “You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script - easily. I've seen that happen before, but you can't do it the other way around” (George Clooney)  Still versus moving images

 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story: ◦ CogDogRoo CogDogRoo  What we’ve used: ◦ Toondoo Toondoo ◦ Xtranormal Xtranormal ◦ Comic Life ◦ Animoto Animoto ◦ Digital Video Cameras – Movie Maker 2

 Digital Storytelling Examples: ◦ Tell the story of the Boxer Rebellion  Toondoo Toondoo  Student Example: ◦ Boxer Rebellion Boxer Rebellion

 Digital Storytelling Examples: ◦ Goal: Choose one area of criminology and tell the story of what Sociologists have learned about that crime and those who commit it.  Xtranormal Xtranormal  Student example: ◦ Prostitution Prostitution ◦ FDR Helps Obama: New Deal vs. Stimulus Package FDR Helps Obama

 Digital Storytelling Example: Imperialism ◦ Goal: Tell the story of one important event that occurred during U.S. Imperialism  Comic Life: Software subscription Comic Life  Student Example: ◦ Hawaii Hawaii

 Digital Storytelling Example: Vietnam War ◦ Goal: Tell the story of at least one aspect of the Vietnam War  Animoto Animoto  Student Examples ◦ Vietnam War Music Video: embedded text Vietnam War Music Video ◦ 2 nd Example: Creative beginning 2 nd Example

 Digital Storytelling Example: The New Deal ◦ Goal: Compare and contrast FDR’s New Deal and President Obama’s proposed Stimulus Package  Student Example: ◦ FDR/Obama Rap FDR/Obama Rap

 Comics in the Classroom: 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teachers Comics in the Classroom  Seventeen Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread in the Classroom Seventeen Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread in the Classroom  Digitales: The Art of Digital Storytelling Digitales  Storyboard: Collaborative Storytelling Storyboard  The Digital Narrative: How to teach digital storytelling The Digital Narrative  Box of Tricks: A-Z Internet Resources for Education Box of Tricks