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/ http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling