Digital+Storytelling+Workshop

=**Welcome to Digital Storytelling**=

Presented By: Adam Bauchner and Danielle Rottenstein

 * Today’s Agenda:**
 * 1) Warm up
 * 2) Writing for digital media
 * 3) Finding media
 * 4) Lunch
 * 5) Putting it together
 * 6) Cool down

What is Digital Storytelling?

 * Multimedia compositions
 * Personal narratives (or not)
 * Globally shared or published
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling Stories page]

What makes a good composition?

 * =====//Sensory: Imagery//=====

What makes an effective writing process?

 * =====//Ideas first//=====
 * =====//Planning//=====
 * =====//Voice over: Scripting//=====
 * =====//Evaluating student work//=====
 * =====//Writing is rewriting//=====
 * =====//Know your audience//=====

What motivates students to do their best work?

 * ====//Achievement and motivation go hand and hand//====
 * ====//Their interest their choice//====
 * ====//Public display//====
 * ====//Anticipatory set//====
 * ====//Students working towards a common goal//====
 * ====//Working for a common goal//====

**Why make Digital Stories?**
>> 2. Each medium has different characteristics, strengths, and a unique “language” of >> construction. >> 3. Media messages are produced for particular purposes. >> 4. All media messages contain embedded values and points of view. >> 5. People use their individual skills, beliefs and experiences to construct their own >> meanings from media messages. >> 6. Media and media messages can influence beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, and the >> democratic process.
 * Our students are “Digital Natives”: [|A Vision of K-12 Students Today]
 * Kids’ voices, global: [|Viral Education]
 * Visual metaphor for the writing process: [|Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us]
 * Technology Learning Standards: [|ISTE National Education Technology Learning Standards]
 * Media Literacy: [|Project Look Sharp @ Ithaca College]
 * 1. All media messages are “constructed.”
 * Equity

**How do you do it?**

 * In Classroom**
 * 1) Assignment & Ideas
 * 2) Drafting & Revising & Editing
 * 3) Storyboard & Script[| - Free Storyboards]


 * On Computers:**
 * 1) Collect images:
 * Student photography
 * Photos from home
 * "Creative Commons" from Web: [|Flickr storm>>]
 * 1) Create sequence
 * 2) Record voice
 * 3) Publish

**What can you do with it?**

 * Link to class website
 * Share with buddy class
 * Share with parents
 * Collect comments
 * Assessment: [|Rubrics for digital storytelling]

**Designing a Project**

 * 1) Begin with learning objectives
 * 2) Teachers assesses computer skills
 * 3) Inventory technology resources
 * 4) Hardware resources
 * 5) Training resources
 * 6) Human resources
 * 7) Financial resources
 * 8) Plan the writing unit
 * 9) Get help


 * Tips:**
 * Focus on Composition
 * Keep the STORIES at the center
 * Good writing skills are good Digital Storytelling skills
 * Avoid “A Story with Pictures” and “Pictures with Captions”
 * We tell a story through words & images
 * [|David Jakes' Digital Storytelling Page]

[|Flickr storm: Creative commons for public use] 50 tools [|www.Rockyou.com]


 * VoiceThread**:
 * [|What is a VoiceThread?]
 * VoiceThread for Education Wiki
 * [|Adam's First VoiceThread]
 * Andy Yale's VoiceThread Page

This workshop owes a great deal to technology educator **David Jakes**, whose Digital Storytelling Page is linked above. He has many other outstanding resources for technology integration linked to his home page,[|Jakes Online], including [|"15 Minutes"], a list of brief minute activities you can do to increase your own digital literacy.