Digital Storytelling

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Digital Storytelling everything you ever
wanted to know!
Medical Education Unit School of Medicine

• John Sandars
• Senior Lecturer / Academic lead for e-learning
• j.e.sandars_at_leeds.ac.uk

Christopher Murray ELP Project
Officer c.murray_at_leeds.ac.uk
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What is digital storytelling?
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A digital story is a story created by the use of
multimedia (Video, photographs and sound)
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Why digital?
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A new type of learner !
Digital natives Learning styles - VAK Learn,
work, play and shop differently Use of new
technologies - Web 2.0 / mobile phones
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Why storytelling?
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Stories convey meanings, thoughts, emotions and
ideas
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Why digital storytelling?
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• digital storytelling is a highly motivating
  strategy that can make reflection concrete and
  visible

Barrett HC Researching and Evaluating
Digital Storytelling as a Deep Learning
Tool helenbarrett.com/portfolios/SITEStorytelling
2006.pdf
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The opportunity to be creative can liberate many
learners and enable tacit aspects of self
identity to be revealed David Gauntlett
Creative Explorations 2007
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The power of the visual
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Center for Digital Storytelling

• Center for Digital Storytelling
• Berkeley, California
• 1993 Joe Lambert Dana Atchley
• Visions
• They believe in the transformative power of
  narrative.
• They want to democratise new media.

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The classic form Digital Stories are 3 5
minute movies consisting of the authors images
and video coordinated with a voiceover to tell a
story. The story is enhanced using a
soundtrack.
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Digital Storytelling is a method and a movement
to give people a voice by the use of computer
tools (Lambert 2002) Digital Storytelling
is a genre of self-representational mini-films,
told in first person. The multimodality of
digital media offers additional power.
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1. Everyone has a powerful story to tell. 2.
Stories unveil themselves in the encounter with
an audience. The Story Circle 3. We all
see, hear, and perceive the world in different
ways, making our stories different. 4. Creative
activity is human activity. Telling stories is
part of this creativity. 5. The computer, with
all its limitations, is a powerful instrument for
creativity.
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The seven elements of storytelling

• 1 Point (of View)
• 2 Dramatic Question
• 3 Emotional Content
• 4 The Gift of Your Voice
• 5 The Power of the Soundtrack
• 6 Economy
• 7 Pacing

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BBC Wales
DS are not like any other previous form of
broadcast material for the first time
contributors are not just originating their own
material, for the first time they are editing it
too. Daniels Meadows
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What is the effect of digital storytelling?
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The Digital Faith Stories

• The Digital Faith Stories follow the format
  outlined at the Centre for Digital Storytelling
  (CDS) in California
• These stories are mediated self-representations.
• They are topical autobiographies, or personal
  narratives.
• The American folklorist Sandra Stahl defines a
  personal narrative as a single-episode personal
  story (Stahl 198913).

Constructing Digital Stories on Faith and Life
An experiment in religious
education Birgit Hertzberg Kaare Knut
Lundbyi Department of Media and Communication,
University of Oslo
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Quotes from the young storytellers

• It was not difficult, but exiting to learn
  something new. I feel cool making my own film.
• I think that what is really fine with a digital
  story, is that instead of having a lot of
  memories in the head all the time, you can put
  them on a tape and show them to others. It is
  so much in your head all the time that is never
  transmitted to others.
• Pictures say more than a thousand words. That
  is what I have heard. When I look at the
  pictures, I get ideas or remember things.

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Plenty of unanswered questions? John Sandars
j.e.sandars_at_leeds.ac.uk