Digital storytelling
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This document provides an introduction to digital storytelling. Digital stories are multimedia narratives that combine audio such as narration, music, and sound effects with visual elements including videos, images, and text. They are typically 3-10 minutes in length. Digital stories can engage active learning, increase reflection, engage emotions, and improve digital literacy. Creating digital stories involves writing scripts, recording narration, selecting and combining various media types. The document discusses examples of using digital stories for reflection, service learning, personal narratives, and current events. It also outlines the workflow and tools used to create digital stories.
Digital storytelling
- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL STORYTELLING Jeremy Anderson Courtney McKenna Tracy Van Oss
- 2. What are digital stories? Multimedia narratives Audio: music, sound effects, narration Visual: videos, images, text Typically 3-10 minutes in length
- 3. Why assess with digital stories? • Engender active learning • Increase Reflection • Engage emotions • Encourage service learning • Repackage text-based skills • Improve digital literacy
- 4. DIGITAL STORIES And the Learning Paradigm
- 5. Written Communication Script with a purpose
- 6. Oral Communication Narrate with purpose & emotion
- 7. Critical Thinking & Reasoning Synthesize media into a cohesive product
- 8. Visual Literacy Select images to serve a purpose and to tell a story
- 9. DIGITAL STORIES Examples and samples
- 10. Digital Stories as Reflective Pieces Courtney McKenna, QUSS instructor • Weekly blogs – using blog tool in Blackboard • Reflect on class discussion • Triangulate topics from other courses • Comment on current events • Identify what was most important to the student each week • Digital Story: • Synthesis of blogs to show personal or intellectual transformation throughout the semester • Camtasia Relay – or other software familiar to student
- 11. Reflection – Student Example • https://capture.quinnipiac.edu/recordings/lagoldstein/QU101/QU101_- _Flash_(Large)_-_20111207_05.26.18PM.html
- 12. Lessons Learned • Student feedback • Enjoyed going back to review blogs • Helped put the semester into perspective • “Not another paper!” • Lessons learned • Need to push students to not be so literal with the “recap” • May require the inclusion of outside materials • Other courses • Events • In class showcase?
- 13. Digital Story & Photovoice for Service Learning Tracy Van Oss, DHSc, OTR/L Digital storytelling was final project for a service learning course incorporating photos with narration: • Youth Day Fair at the Yale Bowl • North Haven Fire Department Bike Safety Day • International Walk To School Day • St. Andrews Children Fair • Halloween Safety at Keefe Center
- 14. Service Learning – Student Example YouTube
- 15. Photovoice as Service Learning • Photovoice was a grant funded project to capture images and narration from the child’s perspective to assess a need for change of the environment in Hamden, CT.
- 16. “I saw a crack in the sidewalk and someone might trip”
- 19. Other potential uses • History: archival footage/images • Current events: interviews, documentary images • Personal narratives • Case studies
- 20. Digital Stories as Personal Narratives All the Truly Important Things… Eric Zheng (pseudonym); part of “Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Community” YouTube
- 21. Digital Stories as Current Events Evolution of Education: The Present Katelyn Stoll, Bridget Figmic, Bree Gooley, Katie Thompson; students ED 311 YouTube
- 22. Digital Stories as History Birth of a Nation as Racial Propaganda Wordless Sound in Antebellum African- Mary Corrado, student; QU 201 American Song Brian Noell, instructor; QUSS YouTube
- 23. WORKFLOW & TOOLS For digital story projects
- 24. What is the workflow? Select Combine Write script Record images, m narration & narration usic, video and other storyboard s, text media
- 25. Tools for creating/collecting media Record narration • QuickTime, iMovie, Sound Recorder Find… • Images • Flickr Commons & Creative Commons • Videos • Flip Video Cameras, YouTube, Vimeo • Music • Jamendo, ccMixter Mac • Sound effects Windows • Freesound, SoundBible
- 26. Tools for finalizing/combining media • Edit images • iPhoto, Live Photo Gallery • Edit/record video • iMovie, Live Movie Maker • Camtasia Relay • Share product • Publish to YouTube • Share Camtasia link Mac Windows
- 27. Tips, tricks, & suggestions • Provide support for tools • Make sure hardware is accessible • Choose a good microphone • Encourage process writing • Have check-in assignments • Smaller groups (3-4 students) • Plan a showcase
- 28. Resources for faculty & students • AT’s Multimedia support page • Instructional Technologists • Jeremy, Monica, Gary, Christina • Technology Center – Flip Cams, tripods, etc. • The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling • University of Houston