1. Expressing Student Voice Through Digital Storytelling
Instructional Technology Services of Central Ohio, Inc.
Rachel Simon

2. Ohio’s Ed Tech Agencies
Established over 30 years ago to provide Instructional Television Services to Ohio Schools
Eight Agencies serve the educational technology needs of over 1800 Public, JVS, Non-Public and Community Schools in Ohio
Over 2.1 Million Students Served
Over 150,000 Educators Served
Over 155,000 hours of Professional Development delivered to educators in 2007/2008
Ohio’s Ed Tech Agencies

3. Our Services Instructional television programming and delivery
Teacher guides and supplemental resources for use with instructional media
Distribution of licensed instructional videos
online learning resources
Digital resources including video streaming
Professional development and training programs
Face-to-Face Workshops Mount Vernon and New Boston labs!) offered directly to educators,
On-site professional development for districts
Distance Learning, Webinars and Online Classes
Our Services

4. Why is Project-Based Learning Important?
In project learning, students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share what they have learned. Compared with learning solely from textbooks, this approach has many benefits for students, including
deeper knowledge of subject matter.
increased self-direction and motivation.
improved research and problem-solving skills.
understanding how academics connect to jobs and careers.

5. Digital Stories-An Overview
Mostly still images
Some video
Narration
Music
Succinct and/or powerful content/message

6. Why Digital Stories?
Give your students an opportunity to strengthen their communication skills by exploring multimedia storytelling. Children grow up surrounded by stories told with pictures, words and music particularly on television and in movies. Take advantage of this familiarity and place the power to create stories in your students' hands for a change!
-Source-PBS.org

7. Why Digital Stories? Student Academic Benefits
Cross Curriculum
Improving Organizational Skills
Writing, Reading, and Speaking Skills
Increasing Peer Collaboration
Vocabulary Development
Improved Leadership Skills
Tone/Voice/Expression/Character
Supports Differentiation
Researchers and Creators of Knowledge

8. Types of Digital Stories
Stories of Service
Personal Narrative
Historical
Stories that Inform
Stories that Instruct

9. Story Starter

10. Discussion

11. Elements of a Good Story
Digital Storytelling Cookbook

12. Learn from Example

13. Planning It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Mabel Newcombe
Seven Steps to a Digital Story

14. Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Center for Digital Storytelling
Digitales Living Memories Project
Tech Heads

15. Storyboarding
What is a storyboard? It's a place to plan out your digital story in two dimensions. The first dimension is time: what happens first, next, and last. The second is of interaction: how does the voiceover (your story) interact with the images, how do visual transitions and effects help tie together the images, how does the voiceover interact with the musical soundtrack?
-Source-Center for Digital Storytelling

16. Software and Tools Photostory 3-Microsoft (Free)
Windows Movie Maker -Microsoft
iMovie-Apple

17. Getting Started Make your first Digital Story Tutorial

18. Getting Started Create a title for file name Import Photos
Rename Photos if you like

19. Next Steps Drag Photos to to the timeline Change/Perfect Order
Consider Adding Documents or Scanned Images
Add effects
Create Transitions
Add text/titles

20. Next Steps
Add narration
Add music

21. Next Steps
Final Editing
Save and Save Often

22. Enhancements
Free Images
Free Sound Effects
Royalty Free Music

23. 50 Ways to tell a Digital Story

24. Assessment and Evaluation
"A story should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles." Bernajean Porter

25. Resources