Igniting Student Creativity Through Digital Storytelling

Jennifer Carrier Dormanhttp://jdorman.wikispaces.com/http://cliotech.blogspot.com/

Digital storytelling is the process of writing about a story, and adding the multimedia elements of voice, imagery, and music to create a visual story.

“The process of digital storytelling permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, extend it . . .”

-David Jakeswww.jakesonline.org/dstory_ice.pdf

Photo Credit - “Snapshot” http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpn/

Storytelling Ideas and Scaffolding Steps

PSA – Public Service Announcement Breaking News or Olds Broadcasts “Movie” Trailer (book, article, historical era

or event, etc.) Reenactment / Living History Oral History Documentary or Docu-Drama Virtual Tour Story told from the perspective of an

object

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican5/parents.html

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican7/caesar_salad.html

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican7/reliving_a_war.html

Visit the iCan Festival de Cinehttp://www.sfett.com/html_movie/Ican/4.html

Stories from one image Stories from a sequence of images Stories from a sequence of images with

specified persona Stories from a muted video clip Stories from a muted video clip or

sequence of images with background sound

Stories with student-found images and set narrative

Stories with student-found images and student-created narrative

“Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An

Introduction to Digital Storytelling”

-David Jakes

1. Plan: Storyboard and Write 2. Produce: Record the pieces 3. hop: Edit the pieces 4. Publish: Share your creation

http://handouts.wesfryer.com/ds

1. Select images and write. 2. “Loop” step 1 with teacher input and

feedback in the form of guided questions

3. Narrate. 4. Apply Motion.

http://www.primaryaccess.org/

Finding the Raw Materials

Discovery Education streaming has thousands of media files that users can download, edit, and remix into their own digital stories.

Advanced Search > “Include Only Editable Titles”

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ > Search for AFI

American Film Institute

•Glossary of film terms•Storyboard format•Screenplay format•Film shots•Safety procedures•Three-point and stage lighting•Feedback protocol

AFI ScreenNationhttp://www.screennation.afi.com/

http://www.ruleofthirds.com/

primaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives.

http://www.primaryaccess.org/

Teachers set up a class account at http://www.primaryaccess.org/teacher/

Teacher assigns activity to class Student log in and create their stories

http://www.primaryaccess.org/ds.htm

Check out the users guide http://www.primaryaccess.org/guide/Overvie

w.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress has been posting photographs with no known copyright restrictions to a Flickr account.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

http://tinyurl.com/6cc627

National Archives primary resources on footnote

http://go.footnote.com/nara/

Use Calisphere Themed Collections to quickly find primary sources for classroom use

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

http://www.authentichistory.com/

http://search.creativecommons.org/

iStockPhoto http://www.istockphoto.com/

Stock Xchng http://www.sxc.hu/

Stock Vault http://www.stockvault.net/

Flickr http://flickr.com/

DigiTales Image Resources http://www.digitales.us/resources/image_source

s.php

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Download Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Download the LAME MP3 encoder to

export as an MP3 http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

Audacity Tutorials and Installation Instructions

http://tinyurl.com/5h2jmc

http://www.jamstudio.com/

http://freeplaymusic.com/

Terms of Service If you are using Freeplay Music for:

Personal Non-Commercial Use (Non-revenue generating). This excludes broadcast use of any kind, including, without limitation, web, blog, and podcast use; or

Educational, Non-Commercial use (this is limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast)

Then Freeplay Music's compositions and recordings may be used without a fee.

Free Music Project http://freemusic.freeculture.org/

ccMixter http://ccmixter.org/

PodSafe Music Network http://music.podshow.com/

Podsafe Audio http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

Bravenet http://www.resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips

DigiTales Music and Sound Resources http://www.digitales.us/resources/music_sound_sources.

php

Software and Internet Applications

http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

iMovie http://tinyurl.com/5r5nsl

Windows Movie Maker http://tinyurl.com/53yvx

Microsoft PhotoStory http://tinyurl.com/48jvat

If you don’t want students to use their own e-mail addresses to register for the following Internet applications, try using the Gmail trick.

G-Mail Trick http://snipurl.com/googletricks

Web 2.0 storytelling applications: Image Editors Video Editors Media Mashup and Creation Tools Media Publishing

Picnik http://www.picnik.com/

Phixr http://www.phixr.com/

FotoFlexer http://fotoflexer.com/

Splashup http://www.splashup.com/

http://www.befunky.com/ http://www.mrpicassohead.com/ http://www.myoats.com/ http://www.picnik.com/ http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ http://www.dumpr.net/

Jumpcut http://jumpcut.com/

Jaycut http://jaycut.com/

Movie Masher http://www.moviemasher.com/

Animoto http://education.animoto.com/

Voicethread http://voicethread.com/

OneTrueMedia http://www.onetruemedia.com/

Bookr http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

Scrapblog http://www.scrapblog.com/

BubbleShare http://www.bubbleshare.com/

SlideRoll http://www.slideroll.com/

xTimeline http://www.xtimeline.com/

OurStory http://www.ourstory.com/

Mnemograph http://mnemograph.com/

For more interactive media timelines visit: http://snipurl.com/timelines

MakeBeliefsComix http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Kerpoof http://www.kerpoof.com/

Comiqs http://comiqs.com/

Toonlet http://toonlet.com/

Toondoo http://www.toondoo.com/

Consider student video contests. Check out the DEN blogs for more information: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/

digital_storytelling http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters

Moonk http://www.moonk.com/

TeacherTube http://teachertube.com/

SchoolTube http://www.schooltube.com/

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