Igniting Student Creativity Through Digital Storytelling

Jennifer Carrier Dorman http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/ http://cliotech.blogspot.com/

Digital storytelling is the process of writing about a story, and adding the multimedia elements of voice, imagery, and music to create a visual story.

The process of digital storytelling permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it, extend it . . .
-David Jakes
www.jakesonline.org/dstory_ice.pdf
Photo Credit - Snapshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpn/

Storytelling Ideas and Scaffolding Steps

PSA Public Service Announcement
Breaking News or Olds Broadcasts
Movie Trailer (book, article, historical era or event, etc.)
Reenactment / Living History
Oral History
Documentary or Docu-Drama
Virtual Tour
Story told from the perspective of an object

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican5/parents.html

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican7/caesar_salad.html

http://sfett.com/html_movie/Ican7/reliving_a_war.html

Visit the iCan Festival de Cine
http://www.sfett.com/html_movie/Ican/4.html

Stories from one image
Stories from a sequence of images
Stories from a sequence of images with specified persona
Stories from a muted video clip
Stories from a muted video clip or sequence of images with background sound
Stories with student-found images and set narrative
Stories with student-found images and student-created narrative

Capturing Stories, Capturing Lives: An Introduction to Digital Storytelling
- David Jakes

Plan : Storyboard and Write
Produce : Record the pieces
hop : Edit the pieces
Publish : Share your creation
http://handouts.wesfryer.com/ds

Select images and write.
Loop step 1 with teacher input and feedback in the form of guided questions
Narrate.
Apply Motion.
http://www.primaryaccess.org/

Finding the Raw Materials

Discovery Education streaming has thousands of media files that users can download, edit, and remix into their own digital stories.
Advanced Search > Include Only Editable Titles
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ > Search for AFI
American Film Institute
Glossary of film terms
Storyboard format
Screenplay format
Film shots
Safety procedures
Three-point and stage lighting
Feedback protocol
AFI ScreenNation
http://www.screennation.afi.com/

http://www.ruleofthirds.com /

primaryAccess is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives .
http://www.primaryaccess.org/

Teachers set up a class account at
http://www.primaryaccess.org/teacher/
Teacher assigns activity to class
Student log in and create their stories
http://www.primaryaccess.org/ds.htm
Check out the users guide
http://www.primaryaccess.org/guide/Overview.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/

The Library of Congress has been posting photographs with no known copyright restrictions to a Flickr account.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

http://tinyurl.com/6cc627

National Archives primary resources on footnote
http://go.footnote.com/nara/

Use Calisphere Themed Collections to quickly find primary sources for classroom use
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

http://www.authentichistory.com/

http://search.creativecommons.org/

iStockPhoto
http://www.istockphoto.com/
Stock Xchng
http://www.sxc.hu/
Stock Vault
http://www.stockvault.net/
Flickr
http://flickr.com/

DigiTales Image Resources
http://www.digitales.us/resources/image_sources.php

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Download Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Download the LAME MP3 encoder to export as an MP3
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
Audacity Tutorials and Installation Instructions
http://tinyurl.com/5h2jmc

http://www.jamstudio.com/

http://freeplaymusic.com/
Terms of Service
If you are using Freeplay Music for:
Personal Non-Commercial Use (Non-revenue generating). This excludes broadcast use of any kind, including, without limitation, web, blog, and podcast use; or
Educational, Non-Commercial use (this is limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast)
Then Freeplay Music's compositions and recordings may be used without a fee.

Free Music Project
http://freemusic.freeculture.org/
ccMixter
http://ccmixter.org/
PodSafe Music Network
http://music.podshow.com/
Podsafe Audio
http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
Bravenet
http://www.resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips

DigiTales Music and Sound Resources
http://www.digitales.us/resources/music_sound_sources.php

Software and Internet Applications

http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

iMovie
http://tinyurl.com/5r5nsl
Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/53yvx
Microsoft PhotoStory
http://tinyurl.com/48jvat

If you dont want students to use their own e-mail addresses to register for the following Internet applications, try using the Gmail trick.
G-Mail Trick http://snipurl.com/googletricks

Web 2.0 storytelling applications:
Image Editors
Video Editors
Media Mashup and Creation Tools
Media Publishing

Picnik
http://www.picnik.com/
Phixr
http://www.phixr.com/
FotoFlexer
http://fotoflexer.com/
Splashup
http://www.splashup.com/

http://www.befunky.com/
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
http://www.myoats.com/
http://www.picnik.com/
http://www.buildyourwildself.com /
http://www.dumpr.net/

Jumpcut
http://jumpcut.com/
Jaycut
http://jaycut.com/
Movie Masher
http://www.moviemasher.com/

Animoto
http://education.animoto.com/
Voicethread
http://voicethread.com/
OneTrueMedia
http://www.onetruemedia.com/
Bookr
http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/
Scrapblog
http://www.scrapblog.com/
BubbleShare
http://www.bubbleshare.com/
SlideRoll
http://www.slideroll.com/

xTimeline
http://www.xtimeline.com/
OurStory
http://www.ourstory.com/
Mnemograph
http://mnemograph.com/
For more interactive media timelines visit:
http://snipurl.com/timelines

MakeBeliefsComix
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
Kerpoof
http://www.kerpoof.com/
Comiqs
http://comiqs.com/
Toonlet
http://toonlet.com/
Toondoo
http://www.toondoo.com/

Consider student video contests. Check out the DEN blogs for more information:
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytelling
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_matters
Moonk
http://www.moonk.com/
TeacherTube
http://teachertube.com/
SchoolTube
http://www.schooltube.com/

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