| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

Session 55: Digital Storytelling

Page history last edited by mary.mcglasson@... 11 years ago

image from http://mashable.com

 

(Educause) 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling

 

Now that you know what digital storytelling IS, here are a few things that digital storytelling is NOT...

 

  • Digital storytelling is NOT just for personal stories! As you see in the Educause quote, "Digital stories can be instructional, persuasive, historical, or reflective."
  • Digital storytelling is NOT just for the high-tech user! There are plenty of tools out there that are suitable for a tech-novice.
  • Digital storytelling is NOT jut for "creative" or "artistic" types -- lots of web 2.0 tools come with a media library that you can pull from.

 


 

STEPS TO CREATE A DIGITAL STORY:

(adapted from "Digital Storytelling Contest" website)

 

 

EXAMPLE 1: Instructional

(Corporate Mergers)

EXAMPLE 2: Historical

(Background on Antitrust laws)

EXAMPLE 3: Persuasive

(Tech Tues is good for you!)

STEP 1: 

 WRITE A SCRIPT.

Once you have decided on the idea, story, or concept that you want to share and write a short script. The key here is short – most digital stories average 2-5 minutes.

 

 

 

This one was simpler than my others – I just needed to make a list of reasons why people don’t go to Tech Tuesdays, then convince them otherwise!

STEP 2:  

STORYBOARD YOUR SCRIPT.

Storyboarding doesn't necessarily mean that you need to be an artist; it just means that you have some idea what kind of an image you want to convey at each point in your "story." This could even be just a list of generic image types (find a picture of a person by a tree; find an image of a cat playing with yarn; find an image of a factory; etc.) that you want to find on the web that follow the sequence of the "story" you want to tell.

 

 

 

 

I used “Xtranormal” for this one, so my entire “story” is two characters talking. Other than breaking the script at the appropriate place, there isn’t a lot of storyboarding to do.

STEP 3:  

COLLECT MULTIMEDIA.

Take/create your own pictures or find related images, sound clips, and music for your story. Many current Web 2.0 tools come with a built-in media library that you can use.

 

 

Again, Xtranormal has the characters in its media library, so I don’t need to collect images, and it uses a text-to-speech translator, so I don’t need any other audio.

STEP 4 : CREATE.

Combine your media elements. Don’t forget that while it is not necessary for you to do the actual narration, using your own voice is one of the most powerful ways to communicate your story.

I happen to use Windows Movie Maker, where I combine an audio recording of myself reading the script with images that I have either drawn or found on the web (I always use Creative-Commons licensed images). I can also add title slides for definitions, as well as the video title and credits.

 

I happen to use Windows Movie Maker, where I combine an audio recording of myself reading the script with my images. I included this example because I used CC-licensed images, and cited them at the end of the video.

 

 

Xtranormal will let you preview your video, so that you know if you need to tweak the script or the characters.

STEP 5: SHARE!

Publish and share your creation!

Save video file - I publish to YouTube, but there are other ways to share videos!

Save video file - I publish to YouTube, but there are other ways to share videos!

Save your project – Xtranormal also lets you share to YouTube.

 

 

YOUR DIGITAL STORYTELLING CHECKLIST:

  • IDEA - what is it that you want to teach/say/have students learn?
  • WRITE A SCRIPT 
  • STORYBOARD YOUR SCRIPT
  • COLLECT/CREATE MEDIA
  • COMBINE MEDIA (this can be very very simple or very complex, depending on the tool and/or technique that you use)
  • PUBLISH/SHARE!!

 


WHAT TOOL SHOULD I USE?

This is a question that you will have to think about; how you lay out the story will depend on the tool that you want to use. In making your decision, consider the following:

  • Do you want only very simple technology tools, or are you willing to try something a little more advanced?
  • Do you want to create your own art, or search for images, or just have a media library available to choose from?
  • The tool that you choose may also depend on what type of story you want to tell -- for example, a story that is historical/chronological/linear in nature would fit well with a timeline tool.

 

As you can see from this link from Alan Levine's "50 Ways to Tell a Web 2.0 Story," you can tell the same story using any number of tools:

http://50ways.wikispaces.com/50Dominoes

 

This table will give you an idea of just a few of the tools available to you, whether you are an artist or not, for any comfort level with technology: 

 

 

TOOLS

 

CONTENT LIBRARY AVAILABLE

 

 

FIND IMAGES ON THE WEB

 

CREATE YOUR OWN ART

 

 

SIMPLE/NOVICE


Storybird

Glogster (there is a free version,

or a paid EDU version)

Animoto

Photovisi

Fotoflexer

Timeline tools:

 Timetoast, Dipity, Capzles

 

Screenchomp (iPad)

 

INTERMEDIATE

VideoScribe (desktop or iPad.

Desktop version is expensive,

but iPad app is $4.99)

Windows MovieMaker

Infographics tools:

infogr.am, Piktochart

Windows MovieMaker

Xtranormal

 

ADVANCED

 

iMovie

Camtasia

Prezi

iMovie

Camtasia

Prezi

 

 

CLICK HERE for a Digital Storytelling sample page.

 


 

MORE DIGITAL STORYTELLING RESOURCES:

 

   

 

HOW TO USE YOUR STORY IN CANVAS ONCE YOU'VE CREATED IT!!



Click here to complete evaluation survey.

 

 

 

What does Domo eat?

Domo eats any of Mary's baked goods, and he also eats faculty members who don't give their feedback about the Technology Tuesdays series! ;-) 

 

 

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.