1. Tell Me A Digital Story!

2. Objectives What is digital storytelling? Why digital storytelling?
Examples of digital storytelling
The tools to create your digital story
Candy’s Tips and Tricks

3. What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch!

4. What did all the stories have in common?

5. 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)

6. A Storytelling Project
Choose a person, place, event, a writing…anything that has a story to be told
Research
Write the story
Download the graphics (optional)
Put it all together using storytelling software or a tool
Publish!

7. Content Told from the perspective of the person telling the story
NOT a report, it’s a STORY
(and story doesn’t always mean fiction)

8. Length 1 written page and 2-3 total Succinct and to the point
Pictures display a tone, feeling, and communicate beyond what you are saying
Voice depicts EVERYTHING

9. Examples Practice Makes Perfect A Personal Tale Book Trailers
Others’ stories

10. Tools for Storytelling

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15. Candy’s Clues PLAN the project carefully (content, length, etc.)
Make an example for the students (you will learn a lot!)
Make a rubric with instructions (preferably on a wiki)
Research
Script / storyboard
Pictures
Recording (get another set of hands, if possible)
Publish
Celebrate!

16. Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

17. 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