1. Digital Storytelling For Students

5. Why Use Digital Storytelling?

8. Preparation

9. Production

10. Presentation

11. Types of Digital Stories Digital scrapbook displays material digitally ePortfolios Focus on learning process Record of student work Digital photo essay Stories to stimulate learning through sense

12. Tips for Shooting Great Video

15. Hall Davidson 11/07 Tool: Adobe Premiere Elements (PC) Adobe Premiere Elements: This is video editing program with multiple video layers. It allows you to put students directly into the video. Cost to schools: +$50 (depends on state) Version pictured is 4.0. Adobe recently increased their version # to 7.0, skipping 5-6 Just getting started with video making? Movie Maker and PhotoStory are free programs from Microsoft. Premiere Elements is software you must buy. There are educator prices for Adobe Products. Check with your software purchaser or go to www.adobe.com. Also check out Joe Brennan’s blog, Digital Storytelling at http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytellingwww.adobe.com Just getting started with video making? Movie Maker and PhotoStory are free programs from Microsoft. Premiere Elements is software you must buy. There are educator prices for Adobe Products. Check with your software purchaser or go to www.adobe.com. Also check out Joe Brennan’s blog, Digital Storytelling at http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytellingwww.adobe.com

16. Hall Davidson 11/07 Adobe Premiere Elements: From the opening screen, click Get Media to bring in video clips. Bring in the video you want to put students into and a video of the students in front of a single colored wall. For the single colored wall, you can use construction paper, fabric (WalMart sells some), or a nearby painted wall. Use a color with no flesh tones. Green and blue work best, but other colors can work, too

17. Hall Davidson 11/07 Adobe Premiere Elements: In Effects, type “chromakey” in the search box. The Chroma Key effect will appear. Drag the Chroma Key box onto the clip with the colored wall Click on Edit effects

18. Hall Davidson 11/07 Adobe Premiere Elements: Put the original video on layer Video 1. Put the video in front of the colored wall on layer Video 2 Click on Effects in the main menu. This will bring up the Effects menu. You will use the Chromakey effect.

19. Hall Davidson 11/07 Adobe Premiere Elements: The Chroma Key effect control box will appear. Click on the eyedropper then click it onto the background color Adjust the controls until the background color goes away. You will see the video on layer 1 show through.

20. Hall Davidson 11/07 Adobe Premiere Elements: You have now inserted students into the video. Share it as flash, QuickTime, or Windows media file. Now you can put it into PowerPoint or show on its own. You can also tape a new narration and edit out existing sound. In order to see the video you are working on, drag the indicator to the spot you want to see.

21. License Agreements to use for Creative Works ©

22. Evaluating Digital Storytelling

23. Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts NETS.S Standards

24. Video Production Resources