Educational Use for Digital Storytelling

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Educational Use for Digital Storytelling

• Jenny Wood
• Swinburne University of
• Technology TAFE

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Why use Storytelling?
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What is Digital Storytelling?

• Combining the art of telling stories with a
  mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio
  narration, video and music to present information
  on a specific topic.
• Revolve around a theme and often contain a
  particular viewpoint stories are typically just
  a few minutes long.

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Types of Digital Stories -1

• Personal Narratives

• Character Stories
• Stories about Events in Our Lives
• Adventure Stories
• Accomplishment Stories
• Stories about Places in Our Lives
• Stories about What We Do
• Recovery Stories
• Love Stories
• Discovery Stories
• Other Personal Stories

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Examples of Personal Narratives
Julies story By Jenny Wood Narrated by 3rd
person Almost paradise http//www.coe.uh.edu/
digitalstorytelling/almostparadise.htm Self
narrated
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Julies movie
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Examples of Personal Narratives
Julies story By Jenny Wood Narrated by 3rd
person Almost paradise http//www.coe.uh.edu/
digitalstorytelling/almostparadise.htm Self
narrated
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Types of Digital Stories -2

• Historical Digital Stories
• The Holocaust http//www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstoryt
  elling/holocaust.htm

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Types of Digital Stories -3

• Stories that inform or instruct
• It can be argued that all digital stories inform
  (or instruct)
• Digital stories can be created that deliver
  instructional content on many different topics,
  including Math, Science, Language Arts,
  Medicine, etc.

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Types of Digital Stories -3

• Examples of Stories that Inform or Instruct How
  to wash your dog!
• By Jenny Wood
• Research and interviewing (including video clips)
• Learning styles from the students perspective
• By Jenny Wood

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Wash your dog movie
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Types of Digital Stories -3

• Examples of Stories that Inform or Instruct How
  to wash your dog!
• By Jenny Wood
• Research and interviewing (including videos)
• Learning styles from the students perspective
• By Jenny Wood

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Using digital stories for assessment

• Certificate IV in Disability work
• student assessment

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Challenges for teachers

• Seeking meaningful uses of digital imaging other
  than the superficial ones

• Focusing students on the use of digital imaging
  as a mode of communication and personal
  reflection

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Elements of a Digital Story

• Overall Purpose of the Story
• Narrators Point of View
• A Dramatic Question (or Questions)
• Choice of Content
• Clarity of Voice
• Pacing of the Narrative
• Meaningful Soundtrack
• Quality of the Images
• Economy of the Story Detail
• Good Grammar and Language Usage

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Primarily a visual story but might also use

• First person narrative
• Previously recorded audio
• Text slides
• Interviews

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Tools for Creating Digital Stories

• Creating Digital Video clips for teaching
  purposes http//www.vetonline.swin.edu.au/digitalv
  ideo/index.htm
• Microsoft Photo Story Instructional tutorials and
  help
• http//www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/gettings
  tarted.htm
• Windows movie maker
• http//www.class.uh.edu/classidt/Tutorials_Help/pr
  ofs/software/MovieMaker/