Digital Storytelling basics

4. • Technological
• Visual
• Media
• Information

5. Skills needed to navigate software
and hardware, as well as to generate
content with emerging trends in
Instructional Technology

6. Decoding and understanding icons,
Toolbars, webs, and images. Letting
What we see dictate how other
senses react

7. To access, create and evaluate
messages in oral or written language,
sounds, as well as static or moving
images

8. Ability to find, analyze, and synthesize
information. To develop critical
reading skills

9. A multimedia compilation of text,
Images, Film, and sound that “tells” a
Story, helping students discover voice,
confidence, and structure in their
writing

10. • Point of View
• Dramatic Question
• Emotional Content
• The Gift of Voice
• The Power of Soundtrack
• Economy
• Pacing

11. What is the story being told and what
is the perspective of the author?

12. Does the guy get the girl?

13. Personal issue that comes alive in
a powerful way, and connects the
audience to the story

14. It’s you and it makes your story

15. Sounds and narration to aid expression

16. Telling the story without
overloading the audience

17. Having rhythm to sustain interest

32. Research
Documenting the story, finding
and analyzing pertinent
information

33. Writing
Formulating a point of view and developing a script

34. Organization
Managing the scope of the project, the materials
used and the time it takes to complete the task

35. Technology
Learning to use a variety of tools,
such as digital cameras, scanners, microphones
and multimedia authoring software

36. Presentation
Deciding how to best present the story to an audience

37. Interview
Finding sources to interview and determining questions
to ask

38. Interpersonal
Working within a group and determining individual roles
for group members

39. Problem Solving
Learning to make decisions and overcome obstacles at
all stages of the project, from inception to completion

40. Assessment
Gaining expertise critiquing their own and others’ work

41. Challenges
• Digital media will not make a bad story better
• Formulating and educationally sound argument
• Copyright
• Access to technology
• School filtering
• Can be time consuming

42. • Help Students organize ideas
• Give students confidence
• Self Esteem
• Eliminate stage fright
• Eliminate spelling, and writing difficulties
• Make it about the content not the student
• Aid with presentations and studying
• Critical Thinking
• Project Based Learning
• Interdisciplinary
• Multisensory
• Allow the student to be successful

43. • Give the student control
• No need to be present for people to see
and/or hear the story
• No dead time between a narration
and a demonstration
• Minimize failure
• Be used by teachers and students alike
• Introduce new concepts
• Explain mew ideas
• Summarize large content
• Anytime…anywhere

44. Ongoing Research
Since 2005, educators and graduate students at the
University of Houston’s Laboratory for Innovative
Technology in Education (LITE) have been conducting a
series of research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of
Digital Storytelling

45. http://tinyurl.com/13LDA