DIGITAL+STORYTELLING

Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools
Go beyond poster presentations and PowerPoint to create meaningful student-generated multimedia-rich projects to demonstrate learning plus how to assess them!

Today will be a hands-on experience with many different tools - you will need to pick and choose where to spend your creating time!

=== Why incorporate digital storytelling and digital presentations? ===
 * Provide a variety of media for students to demonstrate what they know and understand[[image:it-iisd/globe_write.jpg width="240" height="240" align="right" caption="globe_write.jpg"]]
 * Can make accomodations for different learners and learning styles
 * Build technology skills
 * Develop communication skills
 * Demonstrate the ability to synthesize across information and media

=== Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools ===

Digital Storytelling is conveying a story from within a digital environment. A presentation, on the other hand, may simply share information.

Jason Ohler has fantastic classroom-related digital storytelling resources.

Thought questions on Jason Ohler's website: 1. How is storytelling related to literacy? 2. How is art related to storytelling? 3. What are DAOW, media literacy, and media fluency? 4. What are some different kinds of stories? 5. Look at the examples - what do you notice?

7 elements of a story (Tutorial) Adapted from StoryCenter.org: 1. Point of View - what is your point? What is the goal? 2. Dramatic Question - the action, tension, central desire... 3. Emotional Content or paradigm - inspirational, love, loneliness, friendship... 4. Gift of your voice - your audio recording (practice and relax, be conversational) 5. Power of soundtrack - music, sound effects, your own lyrical narration (watch copyright) 6. Economy - the sequence of events, images, text - (keep it simple) 7. Pacing - the rhythm, planned and telling pauses, starts and stops Perhaps you prefer a visual representation of the above information?
 * So what is a story? (and really, many of the elements below can apply to a presentation too)**

=== Effective digital storytelling and presentations === 1. Write the story / gather information, synthesize, write 2. Storyboard the image ideas and organize the content (Printable Paper has storyboards) 3. Create the story in a digital environment (college media, organize, write script, create) 4. Share with others
 * Process (very simplified)**

[|animoto.com] This tool analyzes an uploaded set of images, video and text to creates a music video. Very easy to create elegant picture shows. GoAnimate - create animations based on provided character sets, with music Domo animate create simple animations || Little Bird Tales Use your own artwork and voice to make your storybook [|Scrapblog] takes scrapbooking online. Storybird Create a book with art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Create books at [|Tikatok] [|zooburst] Create a 3D popup book. || Make Beliefs Comix create comics Murku PikikidsUse your own photos to create a comic book style page [|Pixton]allows you to create your own comics, has a [|portal for schools]and is partnered with multiple interactive whiteboard vendors. Toondoo create comics || GlogsterCreate multimedia poster projects that incorporate text, photos, video, graphics. There is a page on this wiki dedicated to glogster with helpful details. || [|PhotoPeach]: Create a lively and vivid slideshow by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo Voicethread Use images to create an electronic slide show - what is unique is the ability for others to provide comments and feedback via text, audio, video. ||
 * Selected Digital Environments Overview and Examples**
 * **Easy (single frame/element)** || **Medium** ||
 * Blabberize A single photo to which you give voice narration - and identify a moving mouth which adds animation to your blabber || **Animations**
 * fotobabble Add audio to a photo || **"Books" and Scrapbooks**
 * PicLits add text to an image || **Comic Generators**
 * Voki A single talking avatar which can use your voice or text to speech || **Multimedia Posters**
 * yodio Create a narration to accompany a photo || **Multimedia Slideshows**

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
 * More Storytelling environments:**