DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP:
STORIES, FAMILY ARTIFACTS, AND TECHNOLOGY
- Agenda for today's workshop
- What is your hoped for "take way" today? Why should students tell (digital) stories? What stories do your students tell?
- The Seven Elements of a Digital Story and some additional interpretations of this original work by the founders of the Center for Digital Storytelling.
- What do they look like and do they have to follow the seven elements? How might you assess them?
- Let's take a look at a digital story by an adult (Above: A Teacher's Story) and critique it based on our 7 elements.
- Social Studies connections: "Who makes history?"
- Technology to support storytelling:
(first let's download some media to work with)
- Digital Audio Recorder:
These vary in price ($30-50, make sure you get the -PC model) and are great tools for capturing narration, "warming up", and recording interviews
- Audacity:
Import and edit your audio files with this free, open-source tool (change volume, add silence, remove unwanted sections of your narration)
- Paint.net:
Is a free tool to do basic editing of photos for use in digital stories (resize, crop, add text, filter)
- PhotoStory:
CAN do motion control, add titles to photos easily, allows for easy narration easily of individual photos, adjusts narration with background music
CAN'T import video, add titles before or after photos
Is less complex but is just for photos and audio (narration and music)
- Movie Maker:
CAN import video, import audio narration and music, import images, add titles to photos and video, add titles before and after visuals
CAN'T do motion control,
Is a more complicated tool for some users
GREAT PLACES FOR STORIES:
JUST STORIES:
SOFTWARE TOOLS AND RESOURCES:
GREAT WEB RESOURCES FOR SUPPORTING THE TELLING OF HISTORY:
OTHER TOOLS AND RESOURCES:
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