1. Digital Storytelling 4/9/2009

2. Schedule- 4:00-4:10 Welcome & Overview for tonight. Sign-in Moodle Log-in 4:10-5:00- Digital Storytelling Intro What is Digital Storytelling? Elements of a good story The Story Transformation Animoto- Log-in, try it, post it 5:00-6:00- Classroom Projects Using Movie Maker- Chris Jelderks Introduction to the Power of Movie Maker Prezi Key Features Try it/ experiment 6:00-6:20- Dinner 6:20-6:30- The mini-project Your projects outlined: Movie maker Animoto Prezi 6:30-7:45 Project Time Finish Your Mini-Project Posting/Presenting your projects on the wiki animoto or prezi 7:45-8:00 Wrap-up How to access resources Future Tech workshop- only 1 left (we are still planning google earth pro) Take the workshop survey

3. Moodle Using Moodle to access Resources. Accessing our District Moodle Accessing our District Moodle 3

4. Digital Storytelling- by Bernajean Porter Designing and communicating information requires students to deepen their understanding of content while increasing visual, sound, oral language, creativity, and thinking skills.

5. Elements of Storytelling Living in the Story- make it personal, “emotionalize it” Unfolding a Lesson Learned Finding the Lessons Learned Story Transformation Sharing Stories that Need to Be Told After a digital storytelling is shared, it should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles of technology. —Bernajean Porter

6. Why Digital Storytelling They address 21 st Century Skills- NETS 1. Creativity and inventive thinking 2. Multiple intelligences 3. Higher-order thinking (lessons learned) 4. Information literacy 5. Visual literacy 6. Sound literacy 7. Technical literacy 8. Effective communication (oral, written, and digital) 9. Teamwork and collaboration 10. Project management 11. Enduring understandings

7. Ideas for Digital Storytelling Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales- i.e. Change a current event into a tall tale or myth. Docudramas- Dialogue as parts of the brain on memorable experiences with the body. Describe and Conclude- Describe an event and why it matters, connects, or makes a difference to our humanity or communities today. Advertising or Public Service Announcements

8. Animoto An easy to use, online, multimedia presentation tool. Add text of your choice. You can add music of your choice or built in/ preloaded music. Can be embedded into your web page, wiki, blog, facebook, you tube, moodle etc. Free 30 second videos, You can sign up for a free all access education account. Check out this Animoto Video and Animoto Tutorial on our MoodleAnimoto VideoAnimoto Tutorial

9. Digital Storytelling Resources http://www.digitales.us/ an excellent background on digital storytelling http://www.digitales.us/ Check out these links : www.animoto.com- A easy to use video creator, easy to post/ embed into web pages. www.animoto.com- http://trsdtech.wikispaces.com/ The website where we will post our finished projects http://trsdtech.wikispaces.com/ www.prezi.com - A presentation maker that will allow you to import videos/ pdf files and graphics and then embed the presentation online www.prezi.com