telling tales: introduction to digital storytelling

Telling Tales: introduction to

digital storytelling

Combination of an oral ‘story’ with digital images and sometimes music or sound

to create a ‘mini-movie’ that can be viewed via computer.

Hardware

• computer• headphones/

speakers• microphone• scanner &/or• digital camera• digital voice recorder

SoftwareMicrosoft

• MovieMaker2• PhotoStory3• PowerPoint

Or for MAC users

• iMovie

Purchased

• Adobe Premiere

Elements

• Audacity

• old photos

• greeting cards

• post cards

• jewellery

• maps

• documents

• book covers

• drawings

• paintings

• fabrics

• medals

Images

Sound

Musicwww.freeplaymusic.com

Sound effects

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com

Script

• around 2/3 page or to run 2-4 minutes

• needs to be created as an oral ‘text’

• read with an informal storytelling feel

• focus on how few words and pictures you need to tell the story

Original uses …

Uses in education

By teachers

• reporting – ‘Moving Memories’

• marketing

• developing teaching resources - Coffee

With learners

• individual storytelling

• group reporting

• assessment

Benefits in an LLN context…

• You do not need to be an experienced writer to create them or a reader to enjoy them

• Give LLN learners a ‘voice’ – they become publishers

• Fun, engaging, motivating – in fact addictive!

Technology skills are developed as a means to an end - not the focus

‘just in time – just for me’

‘learning by stealth’

http://digitales.wikispaces.com