Digital Storytelling is based on using multimedia tools to tell stories.As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. The topics that are used in digital storytelling are varied and range from personal tastes to the recounting of scientific discoveries. This interactive workshop will:
introduce participants to the concept of Digital Storytelling
provide examples of Digital Storytelling
relate the use of digital storytelling to teaching practice
During the workshop participants will;
review examples of digital stories
identify the essential elements of Digital Stories
evaluate the relevance to teaching/learning/assessment/ePortfolios
Participants will then construct their own digital story about their favourite place using Microsoft Moviemaker.
This workshop is just a "taster" constructing a digital story normally a digital story takes two + days to complete.
The intention is that you will construct a digital story about a favourite place. If you have not bought any suitable images you will be able to source some easy from the internet or your facebook site.
Link to PowerPoint which goes through the technical process of using Windows Live Movie Maker to create a digital story.
Definition of Digital Storytelling:
There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea 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. or digital story (dig·i·tal sto·ry) A short, first-person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds.
or "short multimedia tales told from the heart"
Digital Story 101
At the heart of a digital story is 'the story' not the technology
A digital story is NOT A SLIDESHOW with words!
A digital story needs to be planned using a storyboard.
The origins are from the Digital Storytelling Center in San Fransisco
Digital stories contain the seven elements
“Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in
circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your
way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the
finding is getting lost. And when you’re lost, you start to look around and listen.”
- Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman
A Travelling Jewish Theatre from Coming from a Great Distance
Excerpted from Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger
Seven Essential Elements of a digital story: (the core components)
Point of View
Dramatic Question
Emotional Content
Gift of your voice
Power of a soundtrack
Economy
Pacing
Kinds of Personal Stories
Character Stories
How we love, are inspired by, want to recognize, or find meaning in our relationship
to another person or even pet, is deeply important to us.
Memorial Stories
Honoring and remembering people who have passed is an essential part of the
process of grieving. While these stories are often the most difficult and painful to produce,
the results are the most powerful.
Adventure Stories
One of the reasons we travel is that the break from the norm of our lives helps to create
vivid memories. All of us who travel, or go on serious adventures, know that the
experience is usually an invitation to challenge ourselves, to change our perspective
about our lives, to reassess.
Accomplishment Stories
There are accomplishment stories about achieving a goal, like graduating from school,
landing a major contract, or being on the winning team in a sporting event. These stories
easily fit into the desire-struggle-realization structure of a classic story. They also
tend to be documented, so you might find it easy to construct a multimedia story.
The Story About a Place in My Life
Up until this century, 90% of the world’s population was born, lived, and died without
ever leaving a ten-mile radius of their homes. While this is difficult for us to imagine,
our sense of place is the basis of many profound stories. (This morning I would like you to have a go at making a digital story about a special place in your life and hopefully you can sources some images from the net)
The Story About What I Do
Life story for many people in professional careers is shaped by their jobs. Author
Studs Terkel collected a series of interviews in his book, "Working," that demonstrated
that we all have unique ways of perceiving and valuing our jobs.
Recovery Stories
Sharing the experience of overcoming a great challenge in life, like a health crisis or a
great personal obstacle, is the fundamental archetype in human story making. If you
can transmit the range of experience from descent, to crisis, to realization, you can
always move an audience.
Love Stories
Romance and partnership, familial or fraternal love, also naturally lend themselves to
the desire-struggle-realization formula. We all want to know how someone met their
partner, what it was like when the baby was born, or what our relationship is with our
siblings and parents.
Discovery Stories
The process of learning is a rich field to mine for stories. The detective in us gets great
pleasure in illustrating how we uncovered the facts to get at the truth, whether it is in
fixing a broken bicycle or developing a new product.
In the educational context:
Digital stories can be made about our learning achievements: from pre-school to teritiary. Communicating to others what you have learnt and perhaps explaining the pathway you have taken explaining how you got to where you are.
Reflection is an important component to learning and digital stories allow people to reflect on their learning and share their achievements with others.
Digital stories can be easily uploaded to youtube, moodle, ePortfolios.
Digital Storytelling: Presenter: Malcolm Roberts
Graduate Diploma of Information Technology in Education: Wintec
Introduction
Digital Storytelling is based on using multimedia tools to tell stories.As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. The topics that are used in digital storytelling are varied and range from personal tastes to the recounting of scientific discoveries.
This interactive workshop will:
- introduce participants to the concept of Digital Storytelling
- provide examples of Digital Storytelling
- relate the use of digital storytelling to teaching practice
During the workshop participants will;This workshop is just a "taster" constructing a digital story normally a digital story takes two + days to complete.
The intention is that you will construct a digital story about a favourite place. If you have not bought any suitable images you will be able to source some easy from the internet or your facebook site.
PowerPoints used during workshop:
Digital Story background and principles
Compiling a digital story using the AutoMovie function in Windows Live Movie Maker. (Please use this during the workshop)
Link to PowerPoint which goes through the technical process of using Windows Live Movie Maker to create a digital story.
Definition of Digital Storytelling:
There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea 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.
or
digital story (dig·i·tal sto·ry)
A short, first-person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds.
or
"short multimedia tales told from the heart"
Digital Story 101
“Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in
circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your
way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the
finding is getting lost. And when you’re lost, you start to look around and listen.”
- Corey Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman
A Travelling Jewish Theatre from Coming from a Great Distance
Excerpted from Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger
Internet Links:
BBC a guide to digital storytellingCenter for digital storytelling
Digital Storytelling websites
Coromandel Digital StorytellingBBC Wales
Oklahoma digital stories
Breaking Barriers
eVision storytelling centre
Storycentre: digital stories
Royalty Free Music for background music
Incompetech MusicFree Music
FreePlay Music
The Digital Storytelling Genre
An excerpt from the Digital Cookbook
Seven Essential Elements of a digital story: (the core components)
Kinds of Personal Stories
Character StoriesHow we love, are inspired by, want to recognize, or find meaning in our relationship
to another person or even pet, is deeply important to us.
Memorial Stories
Honoring and remembering people who have passed is an essential part of the
process of grieving. While these stories are often the most difficult and painful to produce,
the results are the most powerful.
Adventure Stories
One of the reasons we travel is that the break from the norm of our lives helps to create
vivid memories. All of us who travel, or go on serious adventures, know that the
experience is usually an invitation to challenge ourselves, to change our perspective
about our lives, to reassess.
Accomplishment Stories
There are accomplishment stories about achieving a goal, like graduating from school,
landing a major contract, or being on the winning team in a sporting event. These stories
easily fit into the desire-struggle-realization structure of a classic story. They also
tend to be documented, so you might find it easy to construct a multimedia story.
The Story About a Place in My Life
Up until this century, 90% of the world’s population was born, lived, and died without
ever leaving a ten-mile radius of their homes. While this is difficult for us to imagine,
our sense of place is the basis of many profound stories. (This morning I would like you to have a go at making a digital story about a special place in your life and hopefully you can sources some images from the net)
The Story About What I Do
Life story for many people in professional careers is shaped by their jobs. Author
Studs Terkel collected a series of interviews in his book, "Working," that demonstrated
that we all have unique ways of perceiving and valuing our jobs.
Recovery Stories
Sharing the experience of overcoming a great challenge in life, like a health crisis or a
great personal obstacle, is the fundamental archetype in human story making. If you
can transmit the range of experience from descent, to crisis, to realization, you can
always move an audience.
Love Stories
Romance and partnership, familial or fraternal love, also naturally lend themselves to
the desire-struggle-realization formula. We all want to know how someone met their
partner, what it was like when the baby was born, or what our relationship is with our
siblings and parents.
Discovery Stories
The process of learning is a rich field to mine for stories. The detective in us gets great
pleasure in illustrating how we uncovered the facts to get at the truth, whether it is in
fixing a broken bicycle or developing a new product.
In the educational context:
Digital stories can be made about our learning achievements: from pre-school to teritiary. Communicating to others what you have learnt and perhaps explaining the pathway you have taken explaining how you got to where you are.
Reflection is an important component to learning and digital stories allow people to reflect on their learning and share their achievements with others.
Digital stories can be easily uploaded to youtube, moodle, ePortfolios.
Tools for constructing a Digital Story
Audacity for recording your voice http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Microsoft Movie Maker http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/windows_movie_maker.aspx
I-Movie : bundled with all apple computers
Corel Video Studio:
Any movie making software
Microphone: a quality usb microphone is needed as the clarity of the voice recording is paramount.
Movie Maker tutorial from youtube.
Interesting Websites:
100 websites for educators: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/02/100-video-sites-every-educator-should.htmlPhotopeach http://photopeach.com/
Voicethread http://voicethread.com/
Browse through the other pages in this wiki :)