Digital+Storytelling

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Digital storytelling is a great way to literally "tell the story" of your research. Here are some resources to get you started: http://storytools.wikispaces.com

Digital Storytelling Workshop Resources:

 * A Digital Story by Erik Byker, MSU iTEC - media type="file" key="DigitalStorytelling.wp3.wmv" width="300" height="300"


 * Digital Storytelling Handout - [[file:Digital Storytelling.doc]]

= = =What is digital storytelling?=


 * **[|What is Digital Storytelling?]** **-** A definition and many resources OR http://tech-dead.com/dstory.htm user:chericem1


 * **[|The Elements of Digital Storytelling]** - This site outlines key elements of digital storytelling, offers an analysis of current practices, and provides research, resources, and examples of five rhetorical elements of digital storytelling—media, action, relationship, context, communication user:chericem1

=Examples (See also Digital Storytelling in the Classroom below)=


 * **[|True America]** - Example of how images and narration can be juxtaposed to make powerful statements about substantive issues user:chericem1


 * **[|When Flowers Fall]** - A multimedia presentation in English that combines haiku poetry, kanji, and digital photography to present insights and issues related to aging in Japan. A great model for how researchers might investigate sociocultural issues that influence education from the cultural perspective of a particular group and communicate their findings using multimedia tools user:chericem1

=Assessment=


 * **[|Digital Media Scoring Guides]** - A slick interactive rubric maker that allows you to select characteristics for particular kinds of multimedia products commonly assigned in English classes (docudramas, documentaries, how-tos, public service announcements, etc.). It generates the rubric user:chericem1


 * **[|Peer Review of Digital Stories] -** Outlines how to use a gallery walk as a collaborative assessment activity after students have created digital stories

=Creating Digital Stories=


 * **[|Anecdote]** - Blog devoted to helping business organizations understand how to use the power of narrative to their advantage user:chericem1


 * **[|Digital Documentaries]** - Click on //Student Handouts// to see a variety of worksheets you can use to scaffold the process for students user:chericem1


 * **[|Digital Storytelling Cookbook]** - Created by the Center for Digital Storytelling, it guides would-be film-makers through a conceptual "recipe" for creating their own digital stories. Be sure to check out the samples section for other great ideas you could use as the basis for projects in your classes user:chericem1


 * **[|Documentary & Docudrama]** - Links to definitions, examples, resources, and scoring guides


 * **Fifty Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story** - An up-to-date, quality list of tools that students could use to produce digital stories (if you are willing to accept other kinds of media besides just digital video) 1210621602


 * **[|Questions to Elicit Stories]** - A short blog post with a brief list of questions that interns may find helpful in determining a focus for their documentaries user:chericem1


 * **[|Storyboard Example]** - This online example of a storyboard demonstrates the layers involved in storyboarding user:chericem1


 * **[|Three dimensions of story]** - A very short blog post about why we tell stories user:chericem1

=Digital Storytelling in the Classroom=


 * **[|Adobe Digital Kids Club: Story telling: What’s all the buzz about digital storytelling?]** - A quick outline of key elements of digital storytelling, with links to video tutorials re: Adobe products user:chericem1


 * **[|Digital Storytelling Finds Its Place in the Classroom]** - A brief overview of how an elementary teacher facilitated the written, visual, auditory, technological, and social aspects of digital storytelling projects in his elementary classroom user:chericem1


 * **[|Digital Storytelling Presented by our Students in the Scott County Schools]** - Numerous examples of digital storytelling created by elementary students. If they can do it, surely a researcher can! user:chericem1


 * **[|Digital Storytelling Presented by our Teachers in the Scott County Schools]** - A variety of examples of digital storytelling created by teachers user:chericem1


 * **[|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling] -** Exceptionally comprehensive and well-organized list of resources for digital storytelling (Courtesy of Marj Terpstra)


 * **[|Emerald Park Library Digital Storytelling Class]** - Information and resources regarding how one school set up an elective digital storytelling class user:chericem1


 * **[|Family: Oral Histories Harvest Family Heritage]** - A list of questions that teachers can use to guide students in writing oral histories, with links to additional articles and resources on the right-hand side of the page user:chericem1


 * **[|Imovie Examples]** - Links to iMovie projects that are categorized by grade level and subject area user:chericem1


 * **[|Making a movie]** - A series of student-friendly checklists and other info. to scaffold students' movie-making attempts user:chericem1


 * **[|Multimedia Seeds: Exploring Audio & Video Production in the Classroom]** - A phenomenally rich site with a wealth of ideas for creative warm-up activities that can be used to prepare students to create audio and video products. It also contains project ideas and links to all sorts of quality, practical and technical resources (including thematic resources and information about how to insert video into PowerPoint, Word, and web-based documents) user:chericem1


 * **[|StoryMapping: Projects]** - A variety of projects that seek to involve students in social activism via map mashups that tell digital stories user:chericem1


 * **[|Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom]** - For additional ways to integrate digital photography into your lessons, click on Lesson Ideas user:chericem1

= = = = =Find Digital Stories=


 * [|Blinkx]
 * [|Blip.tv]
 * [|Google Video]
 * [|TeacherTube]
 * [|YouTube]

=Research=


 * **[|Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality]** - Advocates (based on several case studies) that the power of multimodal texts like those created via digital storytelling is in the relationships they make possible user:chericem1

=Technical Resources=


 * **[|Digital Video Basics]** - A simple, useful set of definitions, screenshots, and tutorials to help students and teachers learn to use i-Movie user:chericem1


 * **[|DigiTales]** - A fantastic collection of web resources related to image and sound editing and other technical components of the art of digital storytelling. Be sure to wander through the Storykeeper's Gallery to see more examples of what is possible user:chericem1


 * **[|Kodak: Taking Great Pictures]** - The outstanding set of tips sheets and tutorials provides information with visual examples to teach you to take excellent photos user:chericem1


 * **[|Multimedia Seeds: Exploring Audio & Video Production in the Classroom]** - A phenomenally rich site with a wealth of ideas for creative warm-up activities that can be used to prepare students to create audio and video products. It also contains project ideas and links to all sorts of quality, practical and technical resources (including thematic resources and information about how to insert video into PowerPoint, Word, and web-based documents) user:chericem1

=Tools=


 * **[|Animoto]** - Upload images and the software will analyze them, suggest music, and remix them to create an interesting video collage that you can share with others user:chericem1


 * **[|BubblePLY]** - Allows you to add speech and thought bubbles to any online video. Great for drawing students' attention to specific features of a video clip, for encouraging them to use their language skills to comment on the content of the video by having them insert them user:chericem1


 * **[|OurStory]** - FANTASTIC - upload text, photos, and videos into a simple interface to produce a chronologically sequenced timeline. Can collaborate with others, customize, and share. Choose a type of album, answer questions, it generates for you user:chericem1


 * **[|PikiStrips]** - Allows you to drag and drop photos and text to tell stories in a comic book format user:chericem1


 * **[|Slidestory]** - Allows you to overlay audio narration onto a slideshow user:chericem1


 * **[|Storybird]** - AWESOME site allows students to choose artwork from real children's book artists for their stories. In order to get diacritical marks into the text, students will need to type their stories in Word, then copy and paste into the text boxes user:chericem1


 * **StoryTools** - Annotated list of links to 50 different web 2.0 tools you can use to create digital stories user:chericem1


 * **[|Toufee - Create Flash Movies with the #1 Flash Movie Maker!]** - Upload video, add flash animations and effects . . .similar to Bubbleply (14-day free trial, then you have to pay) user:chericem1


 * **[|Viddler]** - Allows you to upload up to 500 MB of video directly from the camera to the website, insert timed comments, tags, and share with others user:chericem1


 * **[|VoiceThread]** - Easy way to connect photos and voices--particularly useful for emphasizing language without ignoring visual (in FL classes, for example). Would also be great for capturing family history user:chericem1

See also: Comics & Graphic Novels (this link will take you to another wiki), Movies, Podcasts, Representing the Data, Writing up the Research

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