1. Tell Me A Digital Story! A special project For 8 th grade students Mrs. Count

2. Standards An Efficient Information & Technology User –Computer Operations, Electronic Tools, Terminology –Location Skills - Internet –Keyboarding A Responsible Citizen Copyright and Plagiarism –Bibliographic Information A Knowledge Constructor Research Process –Evaluation of Information A Quality Producer Sharing of Information –Document Production – Word Processing –Document Production – Presentation Tools –Evaluation of Process and Product Reading and Writing standards

3. What will I learn? AKA Objectives! You will learn about digital storytelling –What is digital storytelling? –Why digital storytelling? –How does this work with our class? –Examples of digital storytelling You will do this by learning the tools to create your digital story You will understand the power of digital tools to help tell and save important stories in new ways.

4. What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch! MOMNOTMOM - A Story –http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.htmlhttp://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html A personal tale –http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=86http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=86 Holocaust –http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24

5. What did all the stories have in common?

6. Why Digital Storytelling? “… 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)

7. Your Project You and your partner will choose a current or historical event and tell the story of that event as if you were there (1 st person narrative). Research Write the story Download the graphics Put it all together using PhotoStory3 storytelling software –narration –Music –pictures

8. Content Tells someone’s story or an event’s story Told from the perspective of the person telling the story –The inventor –Someone at the event NOT a report; this is their STORY

9. Length You only have 1 to 2 written pages and 3+ total minutes to tell their story –But a lot of other work goes into this! Succinct and to the point Pictures display a tone, feeling, and communicate beyond what you are saying

10. Examples Dust Bowl –http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htmhttp://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm Coal Mine Explosion –http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43 Class Examples

11. Tools Brainstorming worksheet (KWQN) KWQN with your research notes Storyboard Script Graphics Narration Music Photo Story 3 Creativity and hard work! click here to go to end of show click on words for a visual of tool Inspiration Brainstorming Software

19. Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

20. 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