Week 13 Novermber 21 (November 23 no class, Viola!)
PhotoStory 3 Digital Storytelling Project #8

To do this week

1. Understand the Ideas of Digital Storytelling

"Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights." (Quoted from Leslie Rule, Digital Storytelling Association)

Work in groups of 2-5 people. Explore the following links, and understand the whats, whys, and hows of digital storytelling. After you have finished those tasks, construct your own digital storytelling project.

1.1 What is digital storytelling? Explore The Center of Digital Storytelling . Click the example of digital storytelling - MOMNOTMom - A Story (Click the Quicktime Version)

1.2. Explore Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - the best webs tie for digital storytelling developed by professionals at the University of Houston.

University of Houston: Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - The University of Houston has a great gallery of videos by students, teachers, and professors.

Digital stories can be informative, questioning, historical, autobiographical, or anywhere in between. Here are links to digital stories on many different topics.

Stories for History and Social Studies: The Gettysburg Address and more!

1.3. Explore another Digital Storytelling website - one of the most comprehensive website for digital storytelling created by Dr. Helen C. Barrett. It includes digital storytelling software, free downloads, tutorials and much more... Don't get drowned!

1.3 Explore these digital storytelling websites with examples of digital stories created by elementary school kids and teachers.

Scott County Student Digital Stories -Digital Storytelling presented by elementary Students in the Scott County Schools

Digital Stories Created by Scott County Teachers - An elementary school teacher shares her Christmas secret.

2. Brainstorm Your Own Project Ideas

Here is a simple example of a digital story - primitively created by Shufang and Michael: Our Raquette Lake Story

2. Create Your Own Digital Story

For this project, the idea is "Learning by Doing". Learn to make a digital story using Photo Story 3 in groups, and make your own photo stories. It can be very simple, or it can be very complicated.

The Making of Photo Story in a Nutshell:

Step one: Decide a topic for your digital story .

Step two: Select and import the images you would like to use for your digital story ( Get some Raqette Lake pictures from T3C website ).

Step three: Write, record, finalize and save your digital story.

How-to movie here (created by Michael)

A step-by-step approach, Photo Story 3 Tutorials included, to create a digital story - created by Instructional Technology Program graduate students at the University of Houston.

3. Link your Digital Story Project to Your Eportfolio.

4. Download Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Free!!!

Go to Microsoft Photostory 3 for Windows, click Download Photo Story 3 and follow the installation steps.

5. For Next Week: Wrap up and Trouble-Shoot Your ePortfolio

Revisit the Basic Requirements for Your ePortfolio. Make sure you include all the components of the ePorforlio, put everything together and spice it up!

6. Q & A

Homework: Work on Project #9 Reflections on the Learning Experience

DUE today: Projects 1-7

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Acknowledgements: Thanks go to the Instructional Technology Program graduate students and faculty Dr. Bernard R. Robin.
at the University of Houston. Thanks also go to Dr. Helen C. Barrett, to the Center for Digital Storytelling, and all the other resources included in this website. Thanks also go to Michael for his cute (or not) contribution.