Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
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Set Guess What Happened?
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What is a digital story? (And how is it different
from just showing pictures?)

• Single picture
• Video
• Series of pictures or video
• Digital Story
• the idea of combining the longstanding art of
  telling stories with any of a variety of
  available multimedia tools, including graphics,
  audio, video animation, and Web publishing.
  (Robin, 2005)

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Digital Story Shell

• Photo Story
• MovieMaker

• iMovie
• PowerPoint

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How might a digital story be used throughout a
lesson?

• Teacher-created
• Anticipatory set
• Content input
• Closure
• Student-created
• Assessment

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Ask yourself this as you view digital story
examples . . .

• Howd they do that?
• What could I do with it?  (think where in the
  lesson it would work?)
• Are there any of my TEKS that I could teach or
  assess through the use of a digital story