21st Century Digital Storytelling

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21st Century Digital Storytelling

• Sue Summerford
• Lenawee Intermediate School District
• Educational Technology Consultant
• June 29, 2009

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What is your favorite story?

• Introduce yourself
• Name
• Where/who you teach
• What is your favorite story?

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What is Digital Storytelling?

• What do kids really learn?

Interesting Book The Director in the Classroom
by Nikos Theodosakis - talks about how
filmmaking engages children in the
classroom. http//www.thedirectorintheclassroom.co
m/profile4.php
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Digital Storytelling

• Develops visual and multimedia literacy in
  students.
• Provides students with a competitive and
  compelling voice
• Permits students to recapture creativity, develop
  it and intensify it, apply it, extend it
  . . .

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Digital Storytelling

• Helps students write more effectively by
  permitting the visualization of the writing
• Provides an authentic personal learning
  experience
• Teaches technology and information literacy

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What makes up a digital story?

• Voice
• Still frame imagery
• Video
• Music

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Additional Elements

• Black space
• Text
• Transitions
• Title Slides

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Digital Storytelling Process

• Write
• Write some more
• Storyboard
• Locate Resources
• Create
• Share

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or, the Beginning!
Ready for Viewing
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Storytelling As Old As Time

• 77 of the population are visual learners
• We will all respond have different favorites
  at the end of the workshop

file
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Why Digital Stories?

• Students today are different
• Disconnect between the way students live and the
  way they are being taught
• Todays students are no longer the people our
  educational system was designed to
  teach. Marc Prensky

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Digital Natives
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Digital Immigrants the rest of us
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Why Digital Storytelling?

• Develops visual and multimedia literacy in
  students.
• Provides students with a competitive and
  compelling voice
• Permits students to recapture creativity, develop
  it and intensify it, apply it, extend
  it . . .

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Why Digital Storytelling?

• Helps students write more effectively by
  permitting the visualization of the writing
• Provides an authentic personal learning
  experience
• Teaches technology and information literacy

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Dealing With Todays Students

• Succinct, not PowerPoint generation story
• The narration is the story
• Seven elements or story will sink
• Ask permission to share some are private.
• Personal Conference with me first.
• The Kiva, Sacred Story Circle
• Renee

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Writing Is Key

• Do writing first, then voice track, then bring in
  pictures
• Students need to write facts because they may
  not have lived long enough to have personal
  narrative
• Buffalo by Josiah
• Have student teams Cropping, Audio, Web,
  Scanning, Music

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What Is The Writer Trying To Say?

• Cover eyes, listen to narrative.
• Do these stories fit qualifications for highly
  proficient according to Michigan Holistic Scoring
  Guide?
• Bring in pictures last!
• Nugget

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The Writing Process

• I wrote you a long letter. I would have written
  you a short letter but I didnt have the time.
• Mark Twain

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Process or Product?

• Writing vs. Technology Component
• Pull out one nugget or one idea
• Carolina Dreaming 236

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Other Forms

• Farther removed from the life of the storyteller
• documenting history and lives of others
• community and culture
• taking a stand, making a point
• classrooms and education
• teach or explain

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Its the Process, not the Product

• What do you want your audience to take with them?

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Seven Elements of Storytelling

1. Point of View
2. Dramatic Question
3. Emotional Content
4. Gift of Their Voice
5. Power of the Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing

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Seven Elements
1-3 Construction - Story Content Point of
View Dramatic Question Emotional Content 4-7
Technical Elements Gift of Their Voice Power of
the Soundtrack Economy Pacing
Identified by Center for Digital Storytelling
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Tone, Effect

• Picture Me Black - Tenth Grader, California
• Voice?
• Tone?
• Effect?

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The Closet by Penny Harris Pacita Luckey

• Observe the seven elements
• What do you notice?

Story Content Point of View Dramatic
Question Emotional Content Technical
Elements Gift of Their Voice Power of the
Soundtrack Economy Pacing
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Rubric on Rubistar

• Revise for elementary
• Use writing rubric for the writing
• All in a nutshell

http//rubistar.4teachers.org
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Use What You Have

• Premiere expensive Photoshop ELE less expensive
  go with whats free (picasa.google.com
  picnik.com)
• Need good piece of writing work at beginning or
  movie will sink
• We need lots of examples personal narrative,
  what did you notice?
• The Art Room
• Teachers need to experience the struggle of the
  writing process again

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Step-by-Step

• Writing Process double-spaced
• Storyboarding (Atomic Learning Storyboard free
  download) use stick figures, other free online
  storyboard sites (i.e. graphic organizers -
  Inspiration, Kidspiration gliffy.com bubbl.us)
• Voiceover
• Bring in images
• Sequential
• Music

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Write the Narrative

• defining moment
• mentor, hero
• scared
• a first
• embarrassing moment
• pet
• in trouble
• trip
• kindness
• home
• dream

• family folklore
• family names
• pride, strength
• determination
• something lost or found
• heirlooms
• tradition
• map of neighborhood
• special item
• mystery

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Storyboard

• Blueprint or map of finished product
• Very important to plan before sitting at computer
• Poster board and post-its
• Paper template
• Software AtomicLearning, Inspiration

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Organize Folders

• Create folder with subfolders
• soundtrack
• video
• images-raw
• images-edit
• voiceover
• project

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Create Voiceover

• Can be very time-consuming
• Need quiet room and stable microphone
• Save each sentence/paragraph as separate
  file(use naming convention)

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Hands-on Activity Storyboard Alexs Script

• 9 boxes on chart paper
• Hint 1st one title, last one credits
• Can be complex or simplistic
• Everyone has copy of script
• Report out
• Story Arc, Dramatic Question about Nurturing
• Aunt Angies Video

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Publishing
When the digital storytelling is finished, you
want your story to be remembered for its soul,
not the bells and whistles.
Bernajean Porter