Digital_Storytelling

toc Tell your story, start your lesson with a movie of pictures, voice narration and sound. Use Digital Storytelling to enhance your lessons. Allow your students to use Digital Storytelling as they apply what they have learned within their Digital Story.

Create a story to introduce your subject, to demonstrate how to do something, to provide a new platform for your lecture.

Advantages: The stories are reusable, students who are absent can view your information at anytime. Students can teach each other as they view all their peers stories.

7 Steps of Story Telling (http://www.storycenter.org/)

1. Point of View 2. Dramatic Question 3. Emotional Content 4. Gift of your voice 5. Background Soundtrack 6. Economy 7. Pacing

What you will need:

 * Photostory 3 or MovieMaker or Bubbleshare
 * Microphone
 * Story or subject idea, to put together on a Storyboard
 * Pictures (photo's, drawings)
 * Video (optional)
 * Patience to do it more than once
 * Someone to listen and watch your story

Rubrics:
Digital Stories online guide and rubric builder. See Project Assessment for example rubric. Also see Rubistar for online rubric builder for multimedia projects.

http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

Project Forms:
Storyboard blank form, project timeline, and project checklist

Storyboards, Rubrics, Student Samples:
The Cost of Chocolate Watch the Dramatic Question in this movie created by Mabry Middle School students.

Created by Middle School student || [|Cost_of_Chocolate] ||  || [|Ritas_Trumpet_Movie] || || Maracas || [|maracas07.wmv] [|Violin07.wmv] ||  ||
 * **Subject** || **Description** || **Video & Storyboard** || Rubric ||
 * Science || Digital story about available resources, our consumption of resources, with statistics about what it takes to renew the resources. || [|Sustainable Living] ||  ||
 * Social Studies || Dramatic digital picture story to start a discussion about 911 || [|911] ||  ||
 * English || 5th graders research and interview local business || [|Portillo's] ||  ||
 * English || Teacher introducing Shakespeare in a novel, fun new way. || [|Shakespeare] ||  ||
 * English || Student videos for Caesar project || http://d-wiki.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling || Rubric:[[file:CaesarVideoRubric.xls]] ||
 * Social Studies/English || The story of how chocolate is produced in foreign country to make others aware of the issues.
 * Music || Students work in pairs to create a video about specific instruments, history and the sound they make. || [[file:RitasTrumpetStoryboard.doc]]
 * || More Music:
 * Special Education || Travel trip created by William, with help of his teacher aide and speech pathologist for narration. William took pictures of his classmates. || [|william trip final.wmv] ||  ||
 * Speech Pathology || Students use Photostory3 to look at pictures, sound out the words and listen to how the words sound. Then the speech pathologist and student work together to improve the speech patterns of the student

Social Studies-working on asking questions, conversational turn taking and using appropriate syntax - || ||   ||
 * Speech Pathology || Students with special needs have conversations using Photostory 3 || [[file:williamanddjweekend.wmv]] ||

Resources:
For more detailed information for the 7 steps of Story Telling: http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html

Bernajean Porter - The Art of Telling Digital Stories http://www.digitales.us/ Lots of digital stories posted on her site under gallery of living memories. : http://www.digitales.us/gallery/gallery_living_memories.php

http://digitalstories.wikispaces.com/

media type="custom" key="149075" This album was created from a group of pictures available in Bubbleshare, downloaded to my computer, and then uploaded again into my own personal album so that a slider show could be created. The photo's are maximized for use on the web automatically. You can add audio to create a photostory or add video, and it is free.
 * Bubbleshare example:**