A New Era in Telling Stories: Digital Storytelling
Well, hello there!
This week I'm back again with the most ambitious challenge we've ever had to overcome during this entire semester. Digital Storytelling!
This week our task was to create a digital story. We were given 3 options to choose from and me and my partner Lady Bird chose option 3, which was to create a fictional digital story. I am going to talk about our experience later but first of all I'd like to inform you about Digital Storytelling in its basics. Fasten your seatbelts, because we're going on a ride!
Digital Storytelling in Education
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What's Your Story?
Well, I'm glad you asked. As I told you earlier, me and my partner chose to create a fictional story. I've been always drawn to supernatural, mystique stories all my life. I find them very entertaining and fun and so we decided to play on that and create a story which is full of amazing twists and turns. Due to the time constaints, we had to divide our story into episodes, so this one is the first episode of the mini-series called Allison and The Core of Elysian.
We created the pictures used in the story with the help of two photoshop programs called Photoscape and PhotoFiltre. When I was in middle school, I used to always use these programs to create something fun and creative. Having spent so much time on them came really handy with this project. We also used Movie Maker to edit our digital story.
It was a lot of work, we spent so much time on it. However, when it was finished, we were very proud of the product. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did while creating!
Creating a digital story comes with lots of benefits as I mentioned earlier, it is a great way to incorporate technology into your own classrooms. Therefore, I would definitely recommend this tool to every teacher and student interested in useful ways to develop their language teaching/learning skills. I am going to be using this technique with my own students for sure.
So, without further do, here is our digital storytelling project: Allison and The Core of Elysian
You can have a look at the transcription of our story by clicking here
This week I'm back again with the most ambitious challenge we've ever had to overcome during this entire semester. Digital Storytelling!
This week our task was to create a digital story. We were given 3 options to choose from and me and my partner Lady Bird chose option 3, which was to create a fictional digital story. I am going to talk about our experience later but first of all I'd like to inform you about Digital Storytelling in its basics. Fasten your seatbelts, because we're going on a ride!
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What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital storytelling at its most basic core is
the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are a wealth
of other terms used to describe this practice, such as digital documentaries,
computer-based narratives, digital essays, electronic memoirs, interactive
storytelling, etc.; but in general, they all revolve around the idea of
combining the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including
graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.
As with traditional storytelling, most digital
stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view.
However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of
computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips, and/or
music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in
education typically last between 2 and 10 minutes. The topics used in digital
storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events,
from exploring life in one’s own community to the search for life in other corners
of the universe, and literally, everything in between.
One can define digital storytelling as the
process by which diverse peoples share their life stories and creative
imaginings with others. This newer form of storytelling emerged with the advent
of accessible media production techniques, hardware and software, including but
not limited to digital cameras, digital voice recorders, iMovie, Windows Movie
Maker and Final Cut Express. These new technologies allow individuals to share
their stories over the Internet on YouTube, Vimeo, compact discs, podcasts, and
other electronic distribution systems.
Digital Storytelling in Education
- Different aspects of digital storytelling such as pictures, music, and narration reinforce ideas and appeal to different learning types.
- Teachers can use it to introduce projects, themes, or any content area, and can also let their students make their own digital stories and then share them.
- Teachers can create digital stories to help facilitate class discussions, as an anticipatory set for a new topic, or to help students gain a better understanding of more abstract concepts.These stories can become an integral part of any lesson in many subject areas.
- Students can also create their own digital stories and the benefits that they can receive from it can be quite plentiful. Through the creation of these stories students are required to take ownership of the material they are presenting. They have to analyze and synthesize information as well. All of this supports higher level thinking.
- Students are able to give themselves a voice through expressing their own thoughts and ideas.
- When students are able to participate in the multiple steps of designing, creating and presenting their own digital stories, they can build several literacy skills.
- Research skills by finding and analyzing information when documenting the story
- Writing skills when developing a script
- Organizing skills by managing the scope of the project within a time constraint
- Technology skills can be gained through learning to use a variety of tools, such as digital cameras and multimedia authoring software
- Presentation skills through the presentation of the story to an audience
- Interview, interpersonal, problem-solving and assesment skills through completing their digital story and learning to receive and give constructive criticism.
- to incorporate multimedia into their curriculum
- to introduce storytelling in combination with social networking in order to increase global participation, collaboration, and communication skills.
For the source of the information please visit here and here
What's Your Story?
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Well, I'm glad you asked. As I told you earlier, me and my partner chose to create a fictional story. I've been always drawn to supernatural, mystique stories all my life. I find them very entertaining and fun and so we decided to play on that and create a story which is full of amazing twists and turns. Due to the time constaints, we had to divide our story into episodes, so this one is the first episode of the mini-series called Allison and The Core of Elysian.
We created the pictures used in the story with the help of two photoshop programs called Photoscape and PhotoFiltre. When I was in middle school, I used to always use these programs to create something fun and creative. Having spent so much time on them came really handy with this project. We also used Movie Maker to edit our digital story.
It was a lot of work, we spent so much time on it. However, when it was finished, we were very proud of the product. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did while creating!
Creating a digital story comes with lots of benefits as I mentioned earlier, it is a great way to incorporate technology into your own classrooms. Therefore, I would definitely recommend this tool to every teacher and student interested in useful ways to develop their language teaching/learning skills. I am going to be using this technique with my own students for sure.
So, without further do, here is our digital storytelling project: Allison and The Core of Elysian
You can have a look at the transcription of our story by clicking here
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