digital+storytelling

** Digital Storytelling **

__**What is it (Definition)?**__
"British photographer, educator and digital storyteller, Daniel Meadows defines digital stories as 'short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart'" (University of Houston, 2011).

The Center for Digital Storytelling defines **digital story** as "A short, first person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds".

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.

Here is a video that gives an explanation of what digital storytelling is:

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Here is a video that shows an example of digital story telling. It is a fairytale that was created by a teacher as an example to her students.

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===__**Attributes/Features**__ ===

that digital stories should contain: || The University of Houston came up with 10 Essential elements that digital stories should contain: ||
 * The Center for Digital Storytelling has come up with 7 elements
 * # Point of View
 * 1) A Dramatic Question
 * 2) Emotional Content
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Gift of Your Voice
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Power of the Soundtrack
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Economy
 * 6) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Pacing

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Here is an interesting concept map that illustrates these <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">7 elements: [] || # <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Overall Purpose of the Story
 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Narrator's Point of View
 * 2) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A Dramatic Question or Questions
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Choice of Content
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Clarity of Voice
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Pacing of the Narrative
 * 6) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Use of a Meaningful Audio Soundtrack
 * 7) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quality of the Images, Videos and Other Multimedia Elements
 * 8) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Economy of the story detail
 * 9) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Good grammar and language usage ||

<span style="color: #ff0096; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__**Advantages and**__ __**Disadvantages**__


 * **Advantages**
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Can be used as a cross-curricular approach the incorporates skills from several different subjects.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students do not need to have a lot of technical skills in order to use digital storytelling tools.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital stories can be shared with a wider audience than oral or written stories.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital stories are a motivator for students to explore the topic being presented.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Emergent readers and writers can share their stories and ideas.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital storytelling can be completed by the individual or as a collaborative project.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students form deeper understandings of their topic when creating digital stories due to the need to externalize concepts.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students of all ages can use this and increase or decrease the level of complexity based on the individual student.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can share their digital stories in the form of a podcast to be heard by other students in the class or other students from other parts of the world. (Stephenie) || === Disadvantages ===
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Assessing digital stories can be difficult for teachers because they can encompass several subject-areas (ELI, 2007, 2)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students need to be educated on how to use the programs and also how to take effective videos.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students need to be educated about copyright issues when it comes to using images, sounds, videos, music, text etc. (ELI, 2007, 2).
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Adult guidance and hands on assistance will need to be available, especially if large groups of students are working.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students may model their work after other work instead of developing their own creative, original work (ELI, 2007, 2)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital storytelling can be time consuming.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Educators must be sure that the students focus on the story and not the technology. The technology should not out shine the story.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Availability of the software that you will be using to create the digital story (i.e. Garage Band, iTunes, etc.) (Stephenie) ||

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__**Applications to the Classroom**__
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">This article is a guide how to implement digital storytelling in your classroom: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Digital storytelling can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom. Below is a list of some ideas of how it can be used. > . || =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Language Arts: =
 * =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Social Studies: =
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can tell their version of a historical event.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Compare current events with historical events.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a commercial about a region of study.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a story based explanation of vocabulary words.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create an "All About Me" story to introduce themselves to the class at the beginning of the year.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Write a story about a visit to a foreign place.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can publish their original writing in digital format.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Compare stories within a genre.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tell a story from a different point of view.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can practice fluency and increase comprehension by rereading a story and creating their own visual graphics to represent the story.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Explore different genres of writing. For example, students could write a folktale, poem or a biography!
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Great practice for basic grammar, spelling and conventions. ||
 * =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Science: =
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tell the life stories of famous scientists and inventors.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Show how inventions have changed the world.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a story showing life from the animals point of view.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Write and present the story of different cycles: water cycle, rock cycle, life cycle.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Write a story about a trip through the solar system.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Develop a story about the life of a plant told from the plant's perspective.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a story to share with others about ways to take care of the Earth.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Make and deliver a weather forecast. || =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Math: =
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Explain a concept using real life examples.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Take a geometry walk around town and show and tell what you find.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Act out math problems using various strategies.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can create visual explanations of solving word problems while having the opportunity to talk the problem out.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Make a counting book, or a book that focuses on simple addition or subtraction.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can incorporate patterns into the writing through onomatopoeia (ie: plip, plop, plip, plop) ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In this video the teacher talks about personal experience with incorporating digital story telling into the curriculum:

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In this video the teacher talks about how digital storytelling can be valuable when incorporated into the math curriculum.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__**Individual Knowledge**__
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Students can use digital story telling tools to create their own individual works. When creating digital stories students can be the creators, writers, directors, publishers and promoters of their own story. Digital storytelling gives each student a voice where they can show the world their ideas.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__**Group Knowledge**__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Some digital storytelling tools allow students to invite collaborators to join them in creating their works. Storybird is one tool for example, that allows many authors to work on a story together. Multiple students can work together on one story in order to bring a variety of viewpoints and opinions. Another way students can work together on one story is for each students to bring their own talents. For example, one student may be the "writer," another could be the "illustrator," and still another could create the soundtrack. This way all students can feel a sense of accomplishment as their talents are used.

<span style="color: #ff0096; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__**Links to Examples**__
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">There are many different tools out there that teachers can use with their students to create digital stories. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here is a list:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Story Bird:**[| http://storybird.com/books/]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Carnegie Library Story Maker**: []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Tik A Tok:** []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**VoiceThread:** []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Photostory 3**: []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Prezi:** []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**PowerPoint:** [|h]<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|ttp://web.mac.com/rpletka/iWeb/Site2/Math%20Digital%20Storytelling.html]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Keynote and Garageband:** []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story** //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**:** //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Many links to educational uses for digital storytelling are included on the home page of this wiki (the updated site that was once "CogDogRoo - Story Tools"). <span style="color: #ff0096; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 28.0833px;">__References__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Center for digital storytelling//. (2011, July 7). Retrieved from []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Educause Learning Intiative (ELI), (Jan 2007). 7 things you should know about digital storytelling. //Educause Learning Intiative//, Retrieved from []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The University of Houston, (2011, July 7). //The educational uses of digital storytelling//. Retrieved from []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The University of Houston, (2011, July 7). //The 7 elements of storytelling//. Retrieved from [] = = <span style="color: #ff0096; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 200%;">**__Where to go for More Infomation:__**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Adams, L. (June 2005). The digitization of learning. //The Journal Online//, Retrieved from []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Robin, B.R. (2005). //The educational uses of digital storytelling//. Unpublished manuscript, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Houston, United States. Retrieved from []

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sadik, A. (Aug 2008). Digital storytelling: a meaningful technology-integrated approach for engaged student learning. //Educational Technology, Research and Development;//, //56//(4), Retrieved from []