telling ‘tales’ in the 21 st century: digital storytelling

Telling ‘Tales’ in the 21st Century: Digital Storytelling

Software Selection• Movie Maker (Windows), or I-Movie (Mac)

– Sophisticated, nice finished product.– Drawback: more complex, more difficult to learn and support.

Students will spend more time on the technology than the content.

• *** Microsoft Photostory 3 – Very user friendly, free download, recording built in, uniform

format.– Drawback: does not stream well, needs to be stored on web

server. Not available on Macs.

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Importing Pictures


Typing Text


Recording


Adding Music


Implementation• Step 1: LRC Orientation to teach students how to use Photostory 3,

where to save files (LRC drop folder).

• Step 2: LRC staff move files from drop folder to instructor web folder, and create pointer files .wvx (for .wmv)

• Step 3: send URLs to instructors

• Step 4: Instructor create webpages with links to all student projects.

• Alternative option: upload to YouTube or other system


http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lrc/help/Photostory.htm



Image Copyrights • All CSL digital stories are published on Internet:

citations and copyrights information required

• Possible sources for images

– Flickr.com: many have© All rights reserved. – ***Wikipedia: Creative Commons (not all but most),

Wikimedia Commons– Google – Advanced search

• Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more• Usage rights: free to use , share, or modify


Examples : Several Languages and Levels

CSL Digital Stories website

• Chinese, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish

• First year and second year (no third year yet)


http://lang.rice.edu/bartlett/stories/index.html

http://lang.rice.edu/gaug/Photostory/Fall09/201_1/IKD.wvx

http://lang.rice.edu/jwhan/Photostory/Fall09/Kore101/Bradford.wvx

http://lang.rice.edu/janv/stories/spring10/montes.wvx

Telling ‘Tales’ in the 21st Century: Digital Storytelling

Why PhotoStory?

• Different format of presentation(writing and speaking)

• Different genre of writing • Creative and fun• Use as teaching resources


PhotoStory Project CHIN 201 (two-week)1. Objectives: able to write and present a short

story 2. Assessment: write a story and use

“PhotoStory” to present it3. Instructions: three modes of

communicationinterpretive, interpersonal, presentational– Interpret short stories– Discuss the elements needed in a short story


Instructions

Interpretive Task: Chinese

Moon Festival, a story focusing on

–Description of characters–Narration of the plot and conflict building–Result of the story–Use of connectors


后羿射日，嫦娥奔月在中国很久很久以前，有一个很勇敢的人叫后羿，他很会射箭。他的太太很漂亮，叫嫦娥。有一天，天上突然出现了十个太阳。天气非常热，人们觉得很难受。后羿为了帮助人民，他把太阳一个一个射下来，只留下一个太阳 , 所以天气舒服了，人民也很快乐。后来，后羿拿到一颗长生不老的药，吃了以后永远不会死。可是他的太太嫦娥，因为好奇，把药吃了，吃了药，嫦娥就慢慢地飞上天了。从那时候开始，嫦娥就一个人孤独地住在月亮上。


Interpersonal Task

• Story structure– Beginning: place, time, characters– Middle: plot, conflict, what happened – End ： result, solution

• Connectors long time ago, one day, then, later, afterwards, as a result, at the end, from then on


Presentation Tasks

• Write a story• Take/collect photos• Create the PhotoStory • Record the narration• Type the Chinese subtitles• Add background music


Photostory Presentation• Presenter: Ask three questions based on your story after your

presentation.• Audience: Listen to each presenter’s story and write down the information

required in the form.


View Chinese 201 Stories

http://lang.rice.edu/yeh/PhotoStory/Fall09/index.html

Evaluation

• Story writing• Story narration• Design of the PhotoStory


Center for the Study of Languages

Rubric

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Teacher’s Perspective

• Learning experience• Integrate three modes of communication• Students’ creativity


Why Digital Storytelling?• Creative/New Oral Proficiency exercise• Allows students to be creative• Students can record in segments (or easily re-

record)• Students can work alone or in pairs • Allows for diverse vocabulary uses


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