Digital StorytellingEveryone has a story to tell...

Goals of Workshop

Overview of Digital Storytelling and benefits of it in the classroom

Provide you with a number of storytelling tools that you can use to improve student learning

Give you some time to explore these tools and identify ways to use them

“Storytelling, no matter in what form and created in whatever media is a powerful tool to transmit knowledge, culture, perspectives

and points of view”

“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world

that defies logic.”

-Jim Trelease

Our species think in metaphors and learn through

stories

-Mary Catherine Bateson

Connect on an emotional level with people and events

and connect them to experiences in our

own lives

Stories allow us to communicate our perspective and perception

Collaborate through remixing

and remakes of

stories

Images: from How- to-Guide: Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators Langwitches blog

Why use digital tools?Digital Communication

Creativity and Inventive Thinking

Higher order thinking skills

Enduring understanding

Visual Literacy

Technical Literacy

Information (Media) Literacy

Effective Communication

Multiple Intelligences/Learning Styles

Collaboration

Project Management Mentality

Exploring AffinityFrom: Ch4- Digitales: the Art of Telling Digital

Stories

Images: from How- to-Guide: Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators Langwitches blog

Images adapted: from How- to-Guide: Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators Langwitches blog

Moving forward

Where do I go from here? How do I get started?

What media (text, audio, images, video) do I or my students need to tell the story?

How do I prepare my students to create content for the story?

Text-Based StoryTelling

StoryBird-Collaborative Storytelling

Myths and Legends-Story Creator

Zooburst

Kerpoof

Other options: Comic Life, Kid Pix, and Keynote

(Moving beyond Microsoft Word)

Audio StoryTelling

Garageband

Kid Pix

Keynote (recording feature)

VoiceThread-Images and Audio

Great web-based tool

Upload images and easy to share on websites

Examples here:

Video and Animation Storytelling

GoAnimate-Really dynamic animated cartoons

Xtranormal- Text to movies!

Scratch-animate and game maker

Exploring Tools

Please choose 1 or 2 tools that you would like to use in the classroom and try using it