Tell Me A Digital Story!

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Tell Me A Digital Story!

• A special project
• for my special students

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What will I learn?

• What is digital storytelling?
• Why digital storytelling?
• How does this work with our class?
• Examples of digital storytelling
• The tools to create your digital story

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What is Digital Storytelling? Lets Watch!

• MOMNOTMOM - A Story
• (http//www.storycenter.org/whatis.html)
• A personal tale
• (http//www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_i
  d2)
• Holocaust
• (http//www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_i
  d24)

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What did all the stories have in common?
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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)

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Your Project

• Choose a person, place or event that you want to
  research and then tell its story
• Research
• Write the story
• Download the graphics
• Put it all together using storytelling software

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Content

• Tells someone or something or some places story
• Told from the perspective of the person telling
  the story
• NOT a report this is their STORY

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Length

• You only have 1 written page and 3 total minutes
  to tell their story
• Succinct and to the point
• Pictures display a tone, feeling, and communicate
  beyond what you are saying

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Examples

• Dust Bowl
• (http//www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbo
  wl.htm)
• A Personal Tale
• (http//www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_i
  d2)
• Coal Mine Explosion
• (http//www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_i
  d43)

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Tools
click on words for a visual of tool
Brainstorming worksheet (KWQN)
Storyboard
KWQN with your research notes
Graphics
Narration
Music
Creativity and hard work!
Photo Story 3 or i-Movie
Script
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Technology is always secondary to the
storytelling
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Tell me a fact and Ill learnTell me a truth and
Ill believeTell me a story and Ill remember it
forever