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Digital storytelling -- changing people, perceptions, and lives

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Digital storytelling -- changing people, perceptions, and lives

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Transformative Power of Multimedia Storytelling

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Digital storytelling -- changing people, perceptions, and lives: Jim Jorstad at TEDxUWLaCrosse

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In today's society, we have the tools to be connected anywhere at any time. The scene is repeated almost every day. People will stand in line with their cell phones, to make a call to someone just a few feet away. Remarkable.

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The Use of Digital Storytelling to Support Teaching and Learning

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The Use of Digital Storytelling to Support Teaching and Learning

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The Use of Digital Storytelling to Support Teaching and Learning

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A Creative Classroom Expert Talk in eTwinning led by Mr Bernard Robin

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6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling with Your Students

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6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling with Your Students

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What is all this hooplah about digital storytelling? Digital storytelling is a blend of video, audio, images, and text to convey stories, information, and ideas. Most likely, you are doing digital storytelling activities in your classroom already. If you are not yet convinced of the benefits of digital storytelling, here are the top six reasons why you should be doing digital storytelling activities with your students.

Leadership and Digital Storytelling Go Hand in Hand

Strong leaders of tomorrow start their journey today in classrooms. just like yours, all over the world. Students cultivate leadership qualities by being able to take charge: learning about themselves and their passions, directing their learning towards their interests, and developing initiative. Students who take initiatives make decisions based on a willingness or desire to act, and use both creative and analytical thinking skills. Initiative demonstrates leadership skills, confidence in one's self and one's potential, and a willingness to do more or to start something.

Good leaders listen to their audience and consider its concerns and reactions. Digital storytelling is also very audience-driven because of the necessity to help your audience understand your story through various media. By taking part in various digital storytelling activities, students can reflect on their own projects and on those of their peers. Being a member of an audience is an important step on the road to leadership.

"[W]e have always learned about life from our family's narratives, and... we learn to live our lives in more productive ways when we can learn to listen to the stories of others." - Carolyn Conforti-Browse

Digital Storytelling Promotes Competency with Technology

Digital fluency and literacy are vital for careers that will increasingly be machine-based . In the workplace, many students will need to be competent with a wide variety of interfaces and computer skills to be successful. As educators, we should be encouraging the positive use of available technology.

Expose students to the benefits of creating and uploading their own ideas (See: Why Students Value Blogging ). Give them a chance to interact with the digital world and make their own mark while still using the internet in a safe environment. By searching, critiquing, and producing for various media, students improve their research skills, evaluate the credibility and quality of sources, and learn about copyrights and the proper citing of sources.

Pro Tip: Photos For Class is a great resource for school-appropriate photos and it automatically cites for you!

In addition to creating a story or message, digital storytelling gives students the ability and flexibility to work with different web tools and software programs. Word processors, image editors, music, and more all come together.

The Process Mirrors the Traditional Writing Process

Digital storytelling is still Whether it is a multi-day project or a storyboard created in ten minutes, the process for digital storytelling is the same as any other project:

Students should be involved with every step, including the publishing stage if feasible. The bulk of the work remains in the planning stage. The implementation of planning and creating may cause students to rethink grandiose ideas in favor of more manageable and practical ones. Digital storytelling is also the perfect platform for project-based learning.

Critical Thinking and Making Decisions Drives Digital Storytelling

When creating a digital masterpiece students need to think about the project's purpose and craft with a goal. There are multiple aspects to any digital storytelling piece. While all pieces will not include images, video, audio, and text, incorporating all four enriches the story or presentation.

Possible questions to motivate critical thinking and decision-making:
Why are we doing this or what is the message?
Who is the audience and what do I want them to feel?
What is that person thinking?
What mood should the music make?
Keep the internet and privacy policies of your school in mind as you share student work. What kind of words work best for the purpose?
I have a limited amount of time, where should I spend most of my time?
I need to make this shorter/longer, what can I add/take out?
Digital Storytelling is Perfect for Sharing and Collaboration
What will you create?
One of the greatest strengths of digital storytelling is the ability to share it with others instantly. Sharing might consist of showcasing student creations, or sending a message out to the world. Students can also work together on projects remotely or get feedback from their peers.
Anna Warfield is the Head of Curriculum and Content at Storyboard That . Follow Anna on Twitter, @AnnaMYWarfield. Stay in-the-know with all things EdTech and innovations in learning by signing up to receive the weekly Smart Update
Use social media as a means to distribute digital storytelling:

Digital Storytelling is a Creative Means of Assessment

Big or small, digital storytelling projects can demonstrate student understanding and completion of goals. There are many times when paper and pencil tests are still necessary, so use alternative assessments whenever possible! Students will love creating a storyboard for a commercial, without even realizing you are evaluating their progress for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8 1, 1.B, 1.C, 4, 5, 6, and 8! Make a rubric for any of these projects with Quick Rubric .

Talk Show with a Special Historical or Literary Guest

Comic Strip or Storyboard with Voiceover

Public Service Announcement Posters or Commercials

Documentary of a Class Experiment

Movie Trailer for a Book or Historical Event

"Choose Your Own Adventure" Project

Propaganda

Digital storytelling - in all its myriad forms - forges opportunities for both student initiative and student agency. With digital storytelling, students can create amazing projects with a greater range of creativity without being a stellar artist or wordsmith; they can tell stories or impart information in their own way and on their terms. All students need a vehicle for self-expression, to show what they have learned, to see new-found knowledge and skills in a practical light, to take risks, and to take learning into their own hands.

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6 Reasons You Should Be Doing Digital Storytelling with Your Students

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What is all this hooplah about digital storytelling? Digital storytelling is a blend of video, audio, images, and text to convey stories, information, and ideas. Most likely, you are doing digital storytelling activities in your classroom already.

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Digital Storytelling Helps Students Practice Essential Skills

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Digital Storytelling Helps Students Practice Essential Skills

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Digital storytelling empowers students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum.

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Digital storytelling empowers students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum.

This technique is a combination of the old storytelling tradition and new technology. With increasing availability of computerized devices in schools, various forms of digital media production have become quite common as approaches to learning.

A digital story is essentially any combination of a spoken narrative and a number of visuals, perhaps with a soundtrack - along with new technologies to edit and share the story.

Although the concept of digital storytelling is closely linked to the use of new technology, we shouldn't forget that it is always the story and not the technology that teachers should focus on. We should merge the digital skills with the literate education; this is where teachers still have a role to play, even in the digital age.

In my teaching practice I often have students practice digital storytelling to help them develop basic oral, written and digital skills, or simply content understanding.After adopting the flipped classroom approach, I have almost entirely eliminated lectures. Students watch video lessons at home, and devote classroom time to working in small groups creating digital stories. They write their own multimedia presentations about the latest gadgets and technology topics, such as "online dangers", the primary components of a computer, cognitive computing, or biometrics, etc. Then they present their digital storytelling creations to the class.

8 Digital Storytelling Benefits For Students

By implementing digital storytelling in your classroom students practice the following skills:

1. Research
Students do extensive research on the topics they have chosen

2. Resource Selection
The most appropriate images, video clips, and other media, to convey targeted ideas are chosen, as well as the best media for the presentation (digital magazine, movie trailer)

3. Script Writing
Writing skills (a critical part of the learning process) are improved.

4. Voice-Overs
Narration of the script adds authenticity to the videos and improves public speaking skills

5. Technical Skill Development
During the many hours spent editing videos, students have to decide when to zoom, which image is best, when to add voice-overs, etc. Learning these technical skills enables students to create progressively more interesting and engaging videos.

6. Collaboration
By working in groups, students are active in the learning process and practice social skills. (Other advantages of cooperative learning include easy management of content, visible tracking of students' activity and flexibility of organizing new ideas).

7. Presentation
Students deliver their presentation to a real audience. (The best presentations are preserved in an e-portfolio that I publish on my blog and I use them again the following year for the introduction of new lessons or as part of a multimedia textbook. My students create the videos and lessons that I will use in my future classes. They learn not only from their own digital storytelling productions, but also from those of former and current peers.

8. Creativity Expression
The creative use of technology is perhaps the most interesting aspect of digital storytelling.

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Digital Storytelling: an Efficient and Engaging Learning Activity - eLearning Industry

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Digital storytelling empowers students to be confident communicators and creators of media as they gain essential 21st-century literacy skills and reach deeper understanding in all areas of the curriculum. This technique is a combination of the old storytelling tradition and new technology.

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Combine words and images to create quick stories

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