1. Creating your story: Scriptwriting & Storyboards

2. Objective To evaluate the process and pedagogy supporting the use of storytelling through podcasts and vodcasts

3. What is podcasting? WillowCast #37 WillowCast #34 Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin

4. How do Student’s Podcast? ‣ Research or summarize activities ‣ Cite appropriately ‣ Write Script ‣ Produce/Publish for the World! ‣ Speaking ‣ Reading ‣ Creative Commons

5. Process in the classroom Write the story script Establish the story core Use technology to pull it all together Create the digital production

6. The Story Core

7. Digital Storytelling and Literacy http://www.jasonohler.com Ohler, J. (2008). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to LITERACY, LEARNING & CREATIVITY, CA: Corwin

8. Daniel Pink Agricultural Age (farmers) Industrial Age (factory workers) Information Age (knowledge workers) Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers) Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future. NY: Riverhead Books

9. Writing the Script Writing conventions Informal Examples: Poor: “The campus had three inches of precipitation last night” Better: “The campus had three inches of rain last night” Pace Slow – boring or tension? Fast – difficult to understand?

10. Formatting the Script Multi - Column Script (storyboard) Left column Right column Recommended for Video Screenplay format Linear fashion Recommended for podcasting

12. Four column format

13. Podcasting Examples & Resources NPR NPR GarageBand Audacity Storyboard Resources: http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard University of Houston http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/storyboarding.html