Digital+Storytelling

Office of Educational Technology

//Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: Using Digital Media //
=AGENDA Overview: How can participants use digital storytelling to enhance instruction? = Digital storytelling is the practice of using digital resources to tell stories. Participants will use various delivery systems to plan, create and integrate digital stories into content area instruction. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. **Welcome & Introductions**
 * What is digital media?**
 * Storytelling with David Jakes a Perspective**
 * The Six Step Process by David Jakes**
 * Marco Torres Perspective on Digital Storytelling (iCann Productions)**
 * Delivery Systems**
 * Filming Techniques**
 * Plan & Script-Story Maps**
 * Create Instructional Video****Integrate Digital Storytelling into Curriculum Maps as an Assessment Tool**

__Day 1:__ Imagine a learning experience, supported and extended by the application of technology, that empowers students to create and contribute, all within the context of what they are expected to know and be able to do in the 21st Century. Imagine that this learning experience provides students with a compelling and competitive voice and enlarges the boundaries of their ability to communicate, potentially to a worldwide audience. That learning experience is digital storytelling.

View and reflect: [|Our Visual World] Examples
 * What value do you think video could bring in your classroom?
 * How do you see digital media enhancing curriculum?
 * What concerns, fears or inspirations do you have about filming?

Media Creation Tools:
 * 1) iMovie
 * 2) Windows Movie Maker
 * 3) Photostory
 * Function & features
 * Working with Still Images
 * Working with audio
 * Saving for uploads to eportfolios

Working with Images and Audio Editors


 * [|Myna.com]
 * Cat Herders Commercial
 * Giving Attention to the Audio
 * Saving and uploading

The Six Step Process by David Jakes

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//What **composes** a digital story? (requires [|**Adobe Acrobat Reader**])// ======

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//What is the **process** of digital storytelling? Explore each component of the process here.// ======

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//What are the **seven elements** of storytelling design?// ======

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//What [|**tools**] are available for digital storytelling?// ======

__Day 2:__

**The Storyboard Process**

 * **Create an instructional video or "Getting to your Priceless" video**
 * Plan
 * Use Storyboard to script
 * Creating a video from a sentence
 * Writing a good video sentence containing:
 * Setting
 * Action
 * Emotion
 * Dissecting your shots from the sentence
 * Using your storyboard to plan shots
 * Record
 * Edit
 * Using iMovie
 * Upload
 * Share & Reflect

__Day 3__ =What do I need to get started?=
 * An idea
 * Mind 42
 * Inspiration
 * Webspiration
 * Composition
 * Rule of Thirds
 * Shotlist
 * Lighting
 * Audio
 * Narration
 * Soundtrack
 * Storyboard How to Make A Storyboard
 * Graph Paper
 * PowerPoint
 * Notebook software
 * Windows Journal
 * Equipment
 * Cameras
 * Still
 * Video
 * Microphone
 * Soundprofessional.com
 * Internal on computer
 * Attached to video camera
 * MIDI keyboard
 * iTouch
 * Computer
 * Mac or PC
 * Software
 * iMovie
 * Garageband
 * Audacity
 * Windows Movie Maker
 * Photostory 3

__Day 4__

Publishing your amazing video

 * Schools website
 * NYCedtech.com
 * Wikispaces
 * DOE
 * Schooltube
 * Schooltube
 * Create a school channel
 * Uploading videos as a student
 * Choosing a favorite video
 * Making a video your default video for your channel
 * DVD, External hard drive or Computer hard drive


 * Sample Instructional Media:**

Physics In The Park Wild West Outlaws Sample Projects
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Additional Resources
 * [|Digital Stories]
 * [|Rule of Thirds]
 * [|Windows Movie Maker]
 * [|Storyboard]
 * [|Storyboard II]
 * NYC Flick-School
 * [|Marco Torres]
 * [|Digital Literacy]
 * [|Flip and Movie Maker]
 * [|G-Cast]
 * [|Vimeo]
 * [|Voice Thread]