Digital Story Telling

What is a digital story?

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Find your story

Begin with a small idea.

Take people through your story picture by picture (narration).

Interviewing yourself or others may help to develop a story.

KINDS OF STORIES (from Digital Storytelling Cookbook)

• Stories about someone important

  • Character stories

  • Memorial Stories

• Stories about events

  • Adventure stories

  • Accomplishment stories

• Story about a Place

 -How would you describe the place?

-With whom did you share this place?

-What general experiences do you relate to this place?

-Was there a defining experience at the place?

-What lessons about yourself do you draw from your relationship to this

place?

-If you have returned to this place, how has it changed?

POINT OF VIEW  -- giving the story a "voice"

How do you strike a balance with images - music - narration - titles/writing? Must all stories be narrated?

poetry - prose

presenting demonstrations, directions

number stories?

digital camera phots - scanned photos or drawings - computer drawings - finding images on the internet

Educational Uses of Digital Story Telling

1. Examples

   • Places

   • Gettysburg

   • Student Examples

   • Demos

     • Grandma's Story

     • Haiku

     • Metamorphosis

   • More samples

2. Tutorials

   • Getting Started

3. Evaluating

   1. Overview from DigiTales site

   2. Rubrics from TechTeachers site

4. Resource

   1. A Place for Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

   2. Digital Storytelling Cookbook

   3. Digital Storytelling in the Language Arts Classroom

   4. Elements of a good digital story from DigiTales

   5. Ideas from Digitales

   6. Training for Video Creation - Photo Story Tutorial