Digital+Storytelling

= = =** DIgital Storytelling in Education ** =

**Sample Digital Stories from the Educational Uses of Storytelling**

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Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling [|Story Corps] Telling Their Stories

Microsoft Storytelling Overview

** 1. Brainstorm and Collect: **
 A Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Material Found On the Web

**PART ONE: Define, Collect, Decide ** 1. Select a topic for your digital story. 2. Create a folder on the desktop where you can store the materials you find. 3. Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. - Save these resources in your folder. 4. Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects. - Save these resources in your folder. 5. Try to find informational content, which might come from web sites, word processed documents, or PowerPoint slides. - Save these resources in your folder. 6. Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question? **PART TWO: Select, Import, Create ** 1. Select the images you would like to use for your digital story. 2. Select the audio you would like to use for your digital story. 3. Select the content and text you would like to use for your digital story. 4. Import images into Photo Story. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. Import audio into Photo Story. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. Modify number of images and/or image order, if necessary. **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">PART THREE: Decide, Write, Record, Finalize ** <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Decide on the purpose and point of view of your digital story. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Write a script that will be used as narration in your digital story AND provides the purpose and point of view you have chosen. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Use a computer microphone and record the narration of your script. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Import the narration into Photo Story. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. Finalize your digital story by saving it as a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file. **<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">PART FOUR: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate ** <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Show your digital story to your colleagues. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, and used in your classroom. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Teach a colleague how to create their own digital story. <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Congratulate yourself for a job well done! <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.5pt; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">[]

** 2. Start with a storyboard: **




** 4. Digital Image Sources **

 * a . digital camera **
 * b. cell phone **
 * c. scanned images of text, photos or art work **
 * d. Flickr's Compfight ( make sure you click on Creative Commons for copyright free images) **

Blank Slides for Photostory

5. Photo Story 3
"Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on a computer...."

Download the program here for free.

Photostory 3 Tutorial


 * How to Import and Arrange Pictures **

Photostory Video Tutorials:
Overview Importing Pictures Adding Titles Customizing Motion Voice Recording Adding Music Saving the Video

6. Voice Thread
Voicethread

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<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations ===== <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Voicethread Wiki with excellent examples

7. Other Storytelling Methods
50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story