Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

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Digital Storytellingin the Classroom

• Larry Bedenbaugh, FLaRE
• Information Services Coordinator
• lbedenba_at_mail.ucf.edu

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Slates

• Students today cant prepare bark to calculate
  their problems. They depend on their slates,
  which are more expensive. What will they do when
  the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will not
  be able to write.
• Teachers Conference, 1703

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Paper

• Students today depend upon paper too much. They
  don't know how to write on slate without getting
  chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean
  a slate properly. What will they do when they run
  out of paper?
• Principal's Association, 1815

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Fountain Pens

• Students today depend on these expensive
  fountain pens. They can no longer write with a
  straight pen and nib. We parents must not allow
  them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of
  learning how to cope in the real business world
  which is not so extravagant.
• PTA Gazette, 1914

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Ink

• Students today depend upon store bought ink.
  They don't know how to make their own. When they
  run out of ink they will be unable to write words
  or ciphers until their next trip to the
  settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern
  education.
• The Rural American Teacher, 1929

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Ballpoint Pens

• Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in
  our country. Students use these devices and then
  throw them away. The American virtues of thrift
  and frugality are being discarded. Business and
  banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.
• Federal Teacher, 1950

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Technology

• While nobody will ever dispute the importance of
  a good education, meeting the needs of today's
  students has changed dramatically from what it
  was 10 or 20 years ago. Students today are
  exposed to a vast amount of information and
  technology early in their lives. Computers,
  electronic mail, long-distance learning, and the
  Internet have changed the dynamics of education
  here in our region and throughout world.
• Congressman Jerry Moran, 1999

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IRA Position Statement on Integrating Literacy
and Technology in the Curriculum

• The Internet and other forms of information and
  communication technology (ICT) are redefining the
  nature of literacy. To become fully literate in
  todays world, students
• must become proficient in the new literacies of
  ICT. Therefore, literacy educators have a
  responsibility to integrate these technologies
  into
• their literacy curricula.

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NCTE 2005 Guideline

• Multi-Modal Literacies
• The techniques of acquiring, organizing,
  evaluating, and creatively using multimodal
  information should become an increasingly
  important component of the English/ Language Arts
  classroom.

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NCTE 2003 Position Statement

• Resolution on Composing with
• Nonprint Media
• Encourage integrating multimedia composition in
  the English Language Arts curriculum

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Florida Legislative Rule 6A-5.065

• The Educator Accomplished Practices of the
  Florida State Board of Education
• 12) Accomplished Practice Twelve - Technology.
• (a) Accomplished level. The accomplished teacher
  uses appropriate technology in teaching and
  learning processes.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare our children for a future
  that we cant even describe.
• David Warlick
• Technology Consultant Author

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Consider These Quotes

• Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who
  can't read he will be the man who has not
  learned how to learn.
• Herbert GerjuoyPsychologist

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Consider These Quotes

• Whatever made you successful in the past, will
  not in the future.
• Lew Platt
• Former CEO, HP

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not our past.

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Consider These Quotes

• We need to prepare students for their future,
  not their present.

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Digital Students

• Growing Up Digital The Rise of the Net
  Generation
• Don Tapscott, 1997
• This is the first generation to be bathed in bits
  since birth.
• Because of their access to the digital media,
  todays students learn, work, think, shop, and
  create differently than their parents.

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DSL (Digital as a Second Language)
http//www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/
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DSL (Digital as a Second Language)
http//www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/
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Digital Students

• By providing digital students with opportunities
  to learn in ways that satisfy their needs, they
  will be more engaged in the learning process and
  in realizing their potential.

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Consider These Quotes

• Same story, same tool
• Same story, different tool
• Different story, different tool
• Bernajean Porter
• Technology Planner Author

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Consider These Quotes

• I know only one thing about the technologies
  that await us in the future We will find ways to
  tell stories with them.
• Jason Ohler
• Educator Author

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What is Digital Storytelling?

• There are many different definitions of digital
  storytelling, but in general, all embody the
  concept 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.

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What is Digital Storytelling?

• Digital stories are short video projects that
  bring together multimedia, including still
  images, voice, video, music, sound, text,
  animation, artifacts, and other materials.

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What is Digital Storytelling?

• Digital Storytelling uses digital media to create
  media-rich stories to tell, to share, and to
  preserve. Digital stories derive their power
  through weaving images, music, narrative and
  voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and
  vivid color to characters, situations, and
  insights.
• Digital Storytelling Association

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Consider These Quotes

• "A story should be remembered for its soul, not
  the bells and whistles." 
• Bernajean Porter

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Good Digital Stories

• Are Personal
• Begin with a Story/Script
• Are Concise
• Use Readily-available Source Elements
• Include Universal Story Elements
• Involve Collaboration

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Seven Elements of Effective and Interesting
Digital Stories

• Point (of View)
• Dramatic Question
• Emotional Content
• Gift of Voice
• Power of the Soundtrack
• Economy
• Pacing

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Basic Steps

• Write a short story or script
• Collect images/video
• Import images/video
• Align images/video with script
• Add music and/or voice over

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Digital Storytelling

• Skills Used in Creating
• Digital Stories
• Writing
• Speaking and Visual
• Technical
• Personal Development

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Types of Digital Stories

• Personal Narrative
• Work of Fiction
• Academic Story
• Documentary
• Public Service Announcement
• Interview
• Alternative Ending to a Well-known Story

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Examples of Digital Storytelling

• Multimedia Authors
• Video Book Trailers
• Digital Storytelling
• Personal Narratives
• Digital Documentaries
• Public Service Announcements

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Examples of Digital Storytelling

• Multimedia Authors
• Create a presentation of student original work
  that includes some combination of music, student
  artwork, graphical interpretation, and/or student
  voice

In The Ocean
September 11
100 Babies and the Diaper Changing Machine
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Examples of Digital Storytelling

• Multimedia Authors
• Create a presentation of student original work
  that includes some combination of music, student
  artwork, graphical interpretation, and/or student
  voice

Candles in the Dark
The Canterbury digiTales Project
African Folktales
Sound/Story
Poetry Interpretation
They Were Children of the World
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Examples of Digital Storytelling

• Video Book Trailers
• Historical Fiction
• Monster
• Tell Tale Heart

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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Personal Narratives
• http//www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstory
  telling/ds.html

Family
Step Dad
Moving Again
Ethnic Gardens
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Digital Documentaries
• Public Service Announcements
• http//www.atschool.org/digidocs/

Tragedy in a Bronx School Yard
The Consequences of Gangs
Think
What's Hot Shouldn't Take All You Got
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Examples of Digital Storytelling

• Documentaries
• Grass Born To Be Stepped On
• Coming from Vietnam
• Hiroshima
• Frank McCourt In America
• Gettysburg Address

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Digital Storytelling Resources

• DigiTales
• http//www.digitales.us/index.php

Evaluating Projects
Resources
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Digital Directors Guild
• http//www.ddguild.org

Windows Moviemaker Tutorial
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Scott Firenzas Digital Storytelling Resource
  Page
• http//www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/

Windows Movie Maker 2
Windows Photo Story 3
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• UH - Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
  Resource Page
• http//www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/default
  .htm

Getting Started
Evaluation
Resources
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Microsoft Education
• http//www.microsoft.com/Education/default.mspx

Using Digital Media
Photo Story 3
Windows Movie Maker
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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Apple iLife
• http//www.apple.com/education/ilife/

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Digital Storytelling Resources

• Atomic Learning
• http//www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2

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Digital Storytelling Demo

• Windows Movie Maker
• Microsoft Photo Story 3