Proprietary & Confidential Digital Storytelling Singapore 2009 Matt Monjan Director, Discovery Education

Why Should Create Digital Stories In Our Classrooms? 1.Digital storytelling engages your students and provides positive experiences that can hook your students 2.Digital storytelling appeals to multiple and different learning modalities 3.It encourages creativity and higher level thinking. Digital storytelling asks students to analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources, decide how to illustrate that information, and make decisions about presentation. 4.By creating media, students understand exactly what goes into constructing media messages by constructing them themselves.

Seven Elements of Storytelling 1.Point of View In thinking about the point of a story, we should also be considering the reason for the story. Why this story, now, for this group of people? 2.A Dramatic Question In a romance, will the girl get the guy? In an adventure, will the hero reach the goal? In a crime or murder mystery, who did it? When any of these questions are answered, the story is over. 3.Emotional Content Did the story engage your emotions? Did it make you sad, happy, excited, etc? 4. Adding Your Voice Personalizes your story, helps with ELL instruction, scripting, etc 5.The Power of a Soundtrack Soundtracks set the mood of our day, change the way we perceive the visual information streaming into our eyes, and establish a rhythm for our step. 6.Economy If the writer and director do a good job, they will shoot just what is necessary to keep the story visually rich while moving forward, with only the minimum of dialogue and number of scenes necessary to allow us to envision the larger story. 7.Pacing The rhythm of a story determines much of what sustains an audience’s interest. A fast-paced movie with many quick edits and upbeat music can suggest urgency, action, nervousness, exasperation, and excitement. Conversely, a slow pace will suggest contemplation, romanticism, relaxation, or simple pleasures. Center for Digital Storytelling

Pedagogies we can implement Cues, Questions, Advance Organizers Storyboarding, incorporating cues into your instructional digital story, central question/conflict Nonlinguistic Representations – Engaging Students: By their very nature, digital stories are nonlinguistic representations – you can engage your students by having them watch your creation or by having them create their own story Summarizing and Note-Taking Scripting, research, planning Setting Objectives: Explaining the Rubric Providing Feedback: Class collaboration and evaluation tied back to rubric, judging and/or posting for comments - Providing Recognition: How will you show off your student’s great work, to class, to parents, etc? Media Festival

Share an example or two - God’s Laugh - One of the stories you completed - Discuss the instructional practices incorporated in the story/creation of the story

How Do We Put a Digital Story Together?

The Four P’s of Digital Storytelling 1.Planning Story boards, story maps, emphasizes the writing process 2.Production Putting it your images, sounds, songs, narration, video together 3.Presentation Designing and sharing your completed projects with an authentic audience 4.Posting In the Web 2.0 world, posting your story for others to comment upon and collaborate 5.Feedback Using a rubric to determine what it means to have a good project

Planning – Story Boarding

How to make video digital stories that inform and instruct Production

Now Let’s Make Some Magic 1.Open up Photo Story and begin a new story 2.Click on the Next Button

Import Your Images 3.Click on the Import Button 4.Then navigate to the images that you want to import 5.Click on the Next Button

Create a title

Add your own Narration 7.Click on the Red Button to begin narration 8.Hint! Type in a script of your narration first – then read it after hitting red button Add script here

Add in Your Music 9.Either from your computer 10. Create your own from Photo Story

Finish your story 11. Choose to save your Story to your computer

Making Movie Magic 1.Open up your Windows Movie Maker 2.From the task bar on the left hand side of the screen choose Import Video

3.Navigate to your movie file – note it must be.asf,.avi,.wmv, or mpeg file. 4.Click Import Find the file that you want to edit

Drag and Edit 5.Drag the piece that you want to edit into boxes below 6.Click on the icon that says Show Timeline

Add your own narration 7.On the Audio track line choose a section of audio that you want to Mute and right- click on that section 8.Choose Mute

Record your Narration 9.Click on the Microphone Icon in the time line to record your narration 10.Record your narration and save the file in a folder on your computer

Finish your movie 11. Choose to save your movie to your computer

Present and Get Feedback

Thank You!