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