1. Digital Storytelling In the School Curriculum Tom Banaszewski techszewski@gmail.com Techszewski.blogs.com

2. Ten Years and 500 Stories Later  TEACH STORY!  Multimedia Storytelling  Center for Digital Storytelling  Place Narratives  A Problem in DS

3. Digital Literacy  “What we ought to be developing in our schools is not simply a narrow array of literacy skills limited to a restrictive range of meaning systems, but a spectrum of literacies...” - Elliot W. Eisner writes The Kind of Schools We Need

4. The Formula Story Literacy Media Literacy Visual Literacy Digital Literacy + + =

5. Defining Digital Storytelling  the practice of combining personal narrative with multimedia to produce a short autobiographical movie

6. Defining Story  “a narrative account constructed around four central themes: character, conflict, struggle, goal” - Kendal Haven Write Right

7. Other Types of Digital Stories  Presence of student voice vs. regurgitating facts  Digital story vs. digital report

8. 7 Elements (CDS model)  1. Point of view  2. Dramatic question  3. Emotional content  4. Individual voice  5. Soundtrack  6. Economy  7. Pacing

9. Will My Name Be Shouted Out  “…media production gives voice to students who are otherwise silenced in their schools and communities. It allows students to represent their experiences and their communities as cultural insiders, instead of the incessant misrepresentation of them outside their communities.” - Kathleen Tyner Literacy in the Digital Age

10. Teach Story… or else  Students gather any and all images related to their topic.  Students cannot explain the difference between a digital story, slideshow and multimedia report.  Assessment becomes subjective when the story, visual and media skills have not been adequately taught.

11. The Challenges  Weak story literacy skills  Absence of media literacy instruction  Combining storytelling, creative writing, visual literacy & media literacy  Time  Teaching software vs teaching storytelling

12. Multiliteracies  “The Multiliteracies argument runs like this: our personal, public and working lives are changing in some dramatic ways, and these changes are transforming our cultures and the ways we communicate. This means that the way we have taught literacy, and what counts for literacy, will also have to change.” (Cope and Kalantzis 1996)

13. 5 Steps - 5 Stages of DS Project  1. Write a two to three minute first person story  2. Collect images to accompany the story  3. Import images into the computer  4. Record the voice over.  5. Align images with script.

14. My Assumptions of DS  Developmentally appropriate expectations are important because digital storytelling challenges students to synthesize personal experience with narrative, visual, media and technical skills

15. Write Here, Right Now  “Far too often, teachers find themselves teaching writing when they’ve never had the experience of being writers themselves” (Salpeter 2005)

16. Need for Media Literacy  Deconstruction IS instruction  British Film Institute (BFI) Education Resources  American Film Institute (AFI) Curriculum

17. What NOT to do  Beware the bandwagon  How will you teach story?

18. Best Practices  StreetSide Stories Model – personal change theme  5 Questions, 5 Note-cards  Story Core and the VPS

19. Writing the Story  “Stories are about one of two things: …Either something is coming into your life and you’re changing because of it or you’re going somewhere outside of yourself into a new space and that’s changing you. It’s always about change…” - Daniel Weinshenker

20. Teaching Story  How was the digital story different than the written story?  Why did I choose the images I did for the story?  Which of the images illustrated the word I said exactly?  Which images were symbols for what I was saying?  Why was this an important story to tell other people?  What was the conflict or problem in the story?

21. Technical Choices  2 computers 20 students  Story literacy OVER tool literacy  iMovie ( tutorial online ), PhotoStory, MovieMaker, Adobe Premiere, FCP  Options: VoiceThread, Scratch, Powerpoint

22. Assessing Digital Stories  Rubric focus on story or technical?

23. Questions  How will you implement DS in your classroom/school?