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Digital Storytelling
by Johanna Jordan, Amy Lageman, and Emily Horowitz
The term "digital storytelling" arises from a movement that uses new digital tools to assist individuals to express their life experiences in an emotionally engaging manner. Digital stories typically assume the form of short stories approximately eight minutes or less and usually involve interaction with the audience. The term also refers to the variety of emergent forms of digital narratives such as web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games. Digital stories are widely respected for their emphasis on personal voice and facilitative teaching methods.
A Brief History:
The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) was founded in the early 1990's in San Francisco Bay, California. Dana Atchely, a media producer and artist, created a multimedia autobiography. He collaborated with Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen, and together they formed the San Francisco Digital Media Center (SFDMC). Together they realized the importance and impact of using digital media to communicate with an audience. They began hosting workshops and seminars in the area. In 1998, the SFDMC moved to the University of California at Berkeley's School of Education, where it evolved into the Center for Digital Storytelling. The CDS blossomed and started teaching educational organizations across the United States about integrating digital storytelling technology into the K-12 classroom.
Key Features: PowerPoint
With PowerPoint there are several ways that you can make a digital story. By uploading pictures from either your own computer, camera, online or even Clipart that comes with PowerPoint you can include pictures for your story. There will be different setups of the slides including different designs and colors which you can create as the background. With fonts you can write out your story the way you want to and according to your personal taste. Shapes such as boxes and arrows can also be added to enhance in your story. Audio is a special feature of PowerPoint as well. You can record your voice during the story and add music or sounds that you have downloaded to your computer.
Key Features: Photo Story 3
Photo Story 3 is a user-friendly program that allows you to create a story using the digital photographs of your choice. These can be personal pictures uploaded from your digital camera or from the internet. Photo Story 3 allows you to edit your photos quickly. With a click of a button you can add special effects, subtitles, and audio. You can also edit your stories by adjusting the speed and transition effects of the slides. The audio feature includes music as well as recorded sounds and voice.This program also allows you to edit the quality of the photo including the color and size, as well as eliminating the red eye affect.
Educational Value
Digital storytelling is a unique and intriguing way to engage students. It can be accomplished using programs such as Microsoft Photo Story 3, PowerPoint, and Windows Movie Maker. These programs can be a useful aid when teaching about virtually any subject. This teaching tool will be able to reach all three types of learners in your classroom (audio, visual, and kinesthetic). Students will find that it is a fun way to express themselves and have information presented to them. You, as a teacher, will find that it is a fun and useful tool as well.
As a teacher, you can adjust the presentation to appropriately fit any age level. For example, for an elementary science class that is learning about the life cycle of a monarch butterfly, a presentation can be made using your own photos or others' displaying its different stages. For a high school-level biology class, a presentation of photos can be made explaining about how to properly dissect a fetal pig.
From a student's perspective, digital storytelling is a means of creative expression to reflect what he or she has learned. For example, students in a beginning-level modern language class could create their own digital story using personal photos and present it in the given modern language.
This program is valuable in every classroom, to teachers and students alike.
To learn more about Microsoft Photo Story 3...
To learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint...
Classroom Resources for Teachers
The term "digital storytelling" arises from a movement that uses new digital tools to assist individuals to express their life experiences in an emotionally engaging manner. Digital stories typically assume the form of short stories approximately eight minutes or less and usually involve interaction with the audience. The term also refers to the variety of emergent forms of digital narratives such as web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games. Digital stories are widely respected for their emphasis on personal voice and facilitative teaching methods.
A Brief History:
The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) was founded in the early 1990's in San Francisco Bay, California. Dana Atchely, a media producer and artist, created a multimedia autobiography. He collaborated with Joe Lambert and Nina Mullen, and together they formed the San Francisco Digital Media Center (SFDMC). Together they realized the importance and impact of using digital media to communicate with an audience. They began hosting workshops and seminars in the area. In 1998, the SFDMC moved to the University of California at Berkeley's School of Education, where it evolved into the Center for Digital Storytelling. The CDS blossomed and started teaching educational organizations across the United States about integrating digital storytelling technology into the K-12 classroom.
Key Features: PowerPoint
With PowerPoint there are several ways that you can make a digital story. By uploading pictures from either your own computer, camera, online or even Clipart that comes with PowerPoint you can include pictures for your story. There will be different setups of the slides including different designs and colors which you can create as the background. With fonts you can write out your story the way you want to and according to your personal taste. Shapes such as boxes and arrows can also be added to enhance in your story. Audio is a special feature of PowerPoint as well. You can record your voice during the story and add music or sounds that you have downloaded to your computer.
Key Features: Photo Story 3
Photo Story 3 is a user-friendly program that allows you to create a story using the digital photographs of your choice. These can be personal pictures uploaded from your digital camera or from the internet. Photo Story 3 allows you to edit your photos quickly. With a click of a button you can add special effects, subtitles, and audio. You can also edit your stories by adjusting the speed and transition effects of the slides. The audio feature includes music as well as recorded sounds and voice.This program also allows you to edit the quality of the photo including the color and size, as well as eliminating the red eye affect.
Educational Value
Digital storytelling is a unique and intriguing way to engage students. It can be accomplished using programs such as Microsoft Photo Story 3, PowerPoint, and Windows Movie Maker. These programs can be a useful aid when teaching about virtually any subject. This teaching tool will be able to reach all three types of learners in your classroom (audio, visual, and kinesthetic). Students will find that it is a fun way to express themselves and have information presented to them. You, as a teacher, will find that it is a fun and useful tool as well.
As a teacher, you can adjust the presentation to appropriately fit any age level. For example, for an elementary science class that is learning about the life cycle of a monarch butterfly, a presentation can be made using your own photos or others' displaying its different stages. For a high school-level biology class, a presentation of photos can be made explaining about how to properly dissect a fetal pig.
From a student's perspective, digital storytelling is a means of creative expression to reflect what he or she has learned. For example, students in a beginning-level modern language class could create their own digital story using personal photos and present it in the given modern language.
This program is valuable in every classroom, to teachers and students alike.
To learn more about Microsoft Photo Story 3...
To learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint...
Classroom Resources for Teachers
- Lesson Plan Ideas for Math
- Lesson Plan Ideas for History
- Podcasts about digital storytelling
- Ideas across the curriculum
- Article and resources to get started
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