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Every community has a memory of itself. Neither an archive nor an authoritative record ...
but a living history, an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand stories.
http://storycenter.org/index1.html
Stories have been a very powerful and engaging tool used in education along time. Storytelling has been part of humanity since we started to communicate with each other. Many cultures passed their history through oral tradition, folktales and music.
Nowadays, technology has become fundamental in everyday life. That is the reason why we as teachers should take advantage of this kind of technology. Students who are actually using this tool are better prepared to fluently speak and to comprehend spoken language, read and write competently.
WHAT IS IT?
It is a technological way of combining stories with digital media such as videos, graphs, audio narration or music in order to illustrate any subject.
Stories are usually short (2 to 5 minutes) and contain a particular point of view. Digital Storytelling enables communication and social participation.
HOW DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
Digital stories come in all sizes and shapes, from a simple video blog that recounts an interesting episode to a more sophisticated treatment that follows a narrative arc and relies primarily on images and found materials. A digital story usually combines 15 to 30 still images and a recorded script of 100 to 250 words to create an original personal digital story in the form of a 2 to 3 minutes digital video.
Please enter this site and take a look:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/learnshops/digital/examples.php
HISTORY
Storytelling is an ancient form of teaching . Before books, reading and writing became widely spread and available, oral storytelling was the only form the wisdom and knowledge of the people were passed down from elders to children, Nowadays, technology has given us a new twist to this ancient teaching method. By incorporating once again storytelling to paint a picture of our world in order to teach others about our knowledge, culture and people. Digital storytelling gives us the ability to reach and disseminate further our stories than ever before in history.
Storytelling, no matter in what form and created in whatever media is a powerful tool to transmit knowledge, culture, perspectives and points of view.From ancient teaching method, adapted to today’s digital native students and available technology tools, digital storytelling is combining the best of both worlds.
TYPES
TEXT BASED: used to tell stories in two different types: blogs and wikis.
AUDIO-ONLY PODCASTS: When we use our voice to express and communicate.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
IMAGE ONLY: We can tell stories by using pictures instead of words.
VIDEO-BASED: The use of digital videos to tell stories.http://zimmertwins.com/
WHAT KIND OF STORIES DO WE TELL?
The possibilities are endless. Stories can be told in many different ways and by many different people. We can journey from personal stories in the form of personal narratives and go to historical themes and events. We could also use instructional stories that include academic topics or we might use fictional stories to stimulate creativity.
Check this site:http://www.digitales.us/gallery/gallery_itza_wrap.php
STEPS
Step 1: Decide on the Story You Want to Tell
Step 2: Gather Your Materials
Step 3: Begin Writing Your Script
Step 4: Prep Your Equipment
Step 5: Create a Storyboard
Step 6: Digitize Your Media
Step 7: Record a Voice-Over
Step 8: Add Music http://new.music.yahoo.com/
Step 9: Edit Your Story
Step 10: Share Your Story
Useful tips
- To create a polished digital story, it’s best to sign up for a digital-storytelling workshop, http://dsi.kqed.org/index.php/workshops/about/C17/ which can last from a few hours to several days and generally costs a modest tuition fee.
- Choose a story you really like.
- Read the story silently several times, picturing the story in your mind as you read.
- Read the story out loud to your partner.
- Visualize, or picture in your mind, all the details of the story and discuss this with your partner.
- Create a storyboard, using at least 3 cartoon boxes, to show the main events of the story with pictures and captions. (You will be using this to help you learn to tell the story.)http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/#storyboards
- Tell the story to your partner using your storyboard.
- Tell the story again, without the storyboard. Remember to visualize as you tell.
PRACTISE! PRACTISE! PRACTISE!
Trust the story and yourself. Tell it to your story circle.
CLASSROOM APPLICATION
Why use Digital Storytelling in the classroom?
- It is interesting and motivating
- It develops communication skills. It encourages reading and writing
- It engages students in their own learning process
- It helps develop creativity
- It respects different learning styles and multiple intelligences
- It develops research, technology, organization, interpersonal and assessment skills
It is an effective tool for teachers because:
- We can use it as a lesson hook
- As a way to integrate multimedia into the curriculum
- As a way to make difficult content understandable
- To facilitate classroom discussion
LIMITATIONS TO DIGITAL STORYTELLING
- Not everybody has access to technology
- It could be time consuming
- It can be difficult to engage everyone in the class towards linguistic issues
Other disadvantages
- We may have some technical problems.
- Is it measurable or not?
- What about appropriateness and the copyright?
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/techplan/page5897.cfm
http://langwitches.org/blog/2008/04/19/digital-storytelling-part-i/
LINKS FOR TEACHERS
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/%C3%B6zge-karao%C4%9Flu/digital-storytelling
http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/digital-storytelling-1303268
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/powerpoint.html
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/
http://www.primaryaccess.org
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/digital_storytelling/digital_storytelling.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/digital-storytelling-1303268
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/techplan/page5897.cfmhttp://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/techplan/page5897.cfm
http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/tools.html
http://homepage.mac.com/eportfolios/workshop/links.html
http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/faq.html
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/28/examples-of-digital-storytelling-types/
http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/storyboarding.htm
Comments (1)
Maria Cecilia González said
at 7:42 am on Oct 5, 2009
Hello all you witchies, I really have to tell you again CONGRATULATIONS, it was a nice presentation and really creative.
xoxoxoxoxo Maria C.
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