LEARNING MODULE NO. 1DIGITAL STORYTELLING

PROF. MO KROCHMAL SPRING SEMESTER 2017

YOUR PROFESSOR• Journalist, Digital Storyteller, Educator

Executive Editor, Social Media News NYInwood, Manhattan, NY

• If he's not doing school work, he's cooking, walking around New York City doing photography, or writing. He drinks coffee black, with sugar. His desk holds four computers -- three Macs and a PC.

• His life changed when:• He was accepted to Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism,

• Worked at The New York Times,

• Got his first job as a professor,

• Volunteered at Ground Zero after 9/11.

• Se Habla Español -- por su puesto.

• He believes you will succeed and wants to help you get where you need to go.

WHO ARE YOU, WHY ARE YOU HERE?

Please introduce yourself to the classWrite a script:

1. Your name, and where it came from, and your nickname, if you prefer

2. Your home town

3. Your major

4. Your first job

5. What you hope to learn from this class

OUR CLASS

We're going to explore the emerging world of storytelling as affected by technology.

We'll start with oral stories, then text, sound, images, video, 360, data, mobile, social and VR/AR.

You'll learn the fundamentals of nonfiction storytelling and how to apply them with free tools, mostly mobile – your smartphone.

You'll understand how stories work and why we need them.

You'll work alone and in groups, there will be lectures, writing, reading, reflecting, critiquing and sharing.

You'll finish the semester with a multimedia story as a final project.

ASSIGNMENTS

• We'll use Blackboard, printouts and blog sites as well as free sites and services.

• You will keep a notebook

• Classes are interactive; be prepared and participate

• The syllabus is a guide to the semester, but there may be times when events require a change of course.

• Work will be filed through Blackboard, as well as a printout.

CLASSTIME AND OUTSIDE TIME

• 2.5*2=5

• The time we spend together is valuable and limited.

• The standard rule is 2.5 hours out of class for each hour in class.

• Expect to spend 5 hours doing work outside of class – that includes, reading, reporting, writing, editing, producing, reflecting and posting.

SUCCESS

• Come to class

• Participate

• Be respectful to the class

• Have a positive attitude

• Do the work, and turn it in on time

• Follow directions

GRADING

Each learning module will have a bundle of tasks of varying difficulty. This is how it works:

• You complete the most basic bundle for a D.

• You do the basic bundle and a more challenging one for a C.

• For a B, you complete two bundles and a third that is more challenging.

• For an A, complete all the bundles.

Every item within a bundle must satisfy all of the specifications of the assignment to receive full credit.

TOKENS

• You get three tokens that can be used to revise an unsatisfactory assignment, hand in an assignment 24 hours late, or take a makeup exam. You can also earn tokens with extra assignments.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

For every reading, you will complete an annotated bibliography that must include:

• APA (6th Edition) citation

• Author information: Who is the author, what is his/her expertise and background for this reading

• Who is the audience for this work?

• Short summary of the content.

• Why is this work valuable for this learning module?

QUIZZES

• Each class will begin with a short quiz based on the lecture and discussion from the previous class.

• Midterm exam will be multiple choice covering all lectures and readings

• There will be a final exam and a final project.

LET'S GET STARTED

MEET A STORYTELLERPrince Diabate, a griot musician from West Africa featured on the song Village and Involuntary Servitude, takes time from recording to speak about the griot legacy and the tradition of oral history.

Griots are a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF2287N0kAc

GOOGLE'S STORYTELLING EVANGELIST

Avinash Kaushik, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Google, shares why data and

storytelling go hand in hand.Interview with Carmine Gallo, a former

journalist and news anchor in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mexiX2BKOo8

WE ARE IN EVERY STORY

it's impossible to fully appreciate and

understand a literary text unless you keep in mind that humans

behave in certain universal ways and do so because those behaviors are hard-

wired into us. 

5 theories about the function of literature

1. Response to interpret complexity as we evolved into thinkers

2. Fitness training3. Attract a desirable mate4. Makes us into one culture5. A luxury – we're rich, so we can write

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/magazine/the-literary-darwinists.html?_r=0

7 STORY ARCHETYPES

• Overcoming the monster

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

• Rags to riches

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

• The quest

Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

• Voyage and return Finding Nemo

• Comedy Rain Forest Alliance ad

• Tragedy Manchester by the Sea (2016)

• Rebirth How the Grinch Stole Christmas

5 KEY PARTS OF EVERY STORY

• Character

• Setting

• Conflict

• Plot

• Theme