digitalstorytelling


 * What is Digital Storytelling?**

From the Digital Directors Guild: "Utilizing intuitive, user-friendly software programs, K-16 students can craft projects that fuse images, music, video and narration to demonstrate their understanding of a topic."


 * Using Digital Storytelling in the Classroom **
 * Who? teacher, students alone or in small groups?
 * When? before, during or after instruction? Formative or summative assessment?
 * WHY? technology objectives? content objectives? affective objectives (ie, meeting different learning styles)? From the Digital Director's Guild:[]

Besides the technical stuff...how do you integrate the creation of digital stories into your classroom? The basic process has several steps that, while they are listed in order, may occur at the same time. Depending on the level or maturity of your students, you will have to scaffold each step to some extent. The Digital Directors Guild has great resource from storyboards to royalty free music and images: http://www.ddguild.org/resources.html.
 * How? **


 * Brainstorm topic and approach
 * Write storyboard and script
 * Locate resources
 * Compile in software
 * Publish and Assess
 * Digitales On Evaluation: http://www.digitales.us/evaluating-projects
 * From [|Rubistar], a rubric based on the 7 elements


 * Once they're done, what can you do with them? **
 * Publish them to Teacher Tube: [|http://www.teachertube.com]
 * Include them in PowerPoint presentations
 * Embed them in a blog or wikispaces page


 * Short List of Resources:**

Creative Commons materials: http://search.creativecommons.org/

Images: Flickr Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Music and Sounds: Community Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/

Web-based Tools: Animoto: http://www.animoto.com VoiceThread: http://www.voicethread.com

Software Tools: MovieMaker PhotoStory iMovie

Examples: VoiceThread of Lab: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b67181.i347345 Math Vocabulary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-jAUpiqEI&feature=relmfu Baseball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_XAtOkqq9U&feature=related

Dirt Into Art: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9aoDi3vcB6MMzMyNjQ5OTAtYmZiNC00MzY2LWFiYjMtZmE4YTNiODNlNjk2/edit

Hurricane Austin: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b216510.i1131064 Black History Month: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b43844.i230047

Poetry Example: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b68166.i351105

Sailing Day Gone Wrong: http://voicethread.com/?#q.b8214.i60612

One Republic Meets the Revolution: https://voicethread.com/?#u160173.b1735883.i9133679

Confederate Soldier Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiDqUB9k1I&feature=related

Battle of the Alamo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgS9Oy1n6A&feature=related