tell me a digital story! a special project for my special students
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Tell Me A Digital Story!
A special project
for my special students
What will I learn?
• What is digital storytelling?
• Why digital storytelling?
• How does this work with our class?
• Examples of digital storytelling
• The tools to create your digital story
What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch!
• MOMNOTMOM - A Story– (http://www.storycenter.org/whatis.html)
• A personal tale – (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2)
• Holocaust– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=24)
What did all the stories have in
common?
Why Digital Storytelling?• “a short, personal multimedia tales told from the
heart“ (Daniel Meadows)• form of digital expression, stories can be created
by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.
• digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows)
Your Project
• Choose a person, place or event that you want to research and then tell its story
• Research
• Write the story
• Download the graphics
• Put it all together using storytelling software
Content
• Tells someone or something or some place’s story
• Told from the perspective of the person telling the story
• NOT a report; this is their STORY
Length
• You only have 1 written page and 3 total minutes to tell their story
• Succinct and to the point• Pictures display a tone, feeling, and
communicate beyond what you are saying
Examples• Dust Bowl
– (http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/dustbowl.htm)• A Personal Tale
– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=2)• Coal Mine Explosion
– (http://www.digitales.us/story_details.php?story_id=43)
Tools
Brainstorming worksheet (K
WQN) KWQN with your research notes
Storyboard
Script
Graphics Narration
MusicPhoto Story 3 or i-Movie
Creativity and hard work!
click here to go to end of show
click on words for a visual of tool
Technology is always secondary to the storytelling
Tell me a fact and I’ll learnTell me a truth and I’ll believe
Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever