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Summer SessionDay 1

Welcome!

agenda

9:00-9:15 - Settle in/House keeping

9:15-10:00 - Energy all Around

10:00-10:30 - What’s in a digital story and how are we going to build it?

10:30-11:00 - Brainstorming the three questions

11:00-12:00 - Outline, Draft and Research your Story

12:00-1:00 - Lunch - Provided - Discuss your stories with your mouth full

1:00-1:30 - Final Editing and Revising - Create the Script

1:30-2:00 - Let’s go Media

2:00-2:15 - The Importance of the Storyboard?

2:15-3:00 - Creating our own Storyboard

3:00-3:30 - Discussion and Closing Statements

Day 1 - Thursday June 12th

Day 1 Apps

iMovie

MindMeister

Google Drive

Garage Band

Google Docs

What we want you to leave with…Participants will be able to effectively use technology to create and

implement digital stories in the classroom.

Participants will be understand the role of energy

Participants will build on already structured PLC to make their network even broader.

Participants will understand copyright issues when engaged in digital storytelling

Participants will be able to engage students in the process of digital storytelling

Energy FocusWith the ever-expanding natural gas industry growing, historic coal industry and our energy needs changing, West Virginia is situated in the middle of these industries. The program is funded under the idea that students understand their capacity in the energy field.

How are fossil fuels are created?

Using the google doc titled

“Energy Careers”, try to identify

as many as you can think of?

Undrground Miner

Careers in the energy industry…

Underground Miner

What we use energy for?

How do we use energy?

www.oocities.org

• Used for 3,000 years • 40% of electricity is produced by coal • 6 billion tons a year used

surface or !opencast mining

http://www.worldcoal.org/coal/coal-mining/

www.rtcc.org

ilovemountains.org

underground or 'deep' miningROOM & PILLAR

MININGLONGWALL MINING

www.dol.gov

mitchellpayes.com

kaydawnsblog.blogspot.com

www.oocities.org

Drilling

Vertical Drilling

Horizontal Drilling

Pictures of a polished section of Marcellus Shale in reflected light.

Fracture Shale rock formation

0.2 millimeters

Hydraulic Fracturing

The Site

www.oocities.org

technologygreenenergy.blogspo

Solar Energy

www.oocities.org

www.l-g-construction.com

Wind Energy

www.epa.gov

www.oocities.org

Biomass Energy

uhaweb.hartford.edu

www.energy.ca.gov

www.oocities.org

Hydroelectric Energy

www.worldwideenergyinc.com

www.oocities.org

Geothermal Energy

www.conserve-energy-future.com

oilprice.co

www.oocities.org

Nuclear Energy

guprogressive.com

Digital StorytellingA short, first person video narratives created by combining words, images, music,

and other media to artfully present a message.

Students want to be engaged in their own learning and inspired to develop their skills and talents, and they want to tell stories using technology.

By implementing digital storytelling into learning, you can reach today’s students and, at the same time, help them to develop the skills they need to be successful in

our complex, technology-rich world.

As well as helping preserve memory and culture, documenting life experiences

It can be used in any subject, connects across curriculum!

Video is the new text

Much more the way that they think and learn today. If they want to learn something they are more likely to go to youtube then a library.

Steps to a Digital Story• Focus • Types of Stories • Prewriting

• Thinking Map • Drafting • Research

• Narration and Script • Storyboard • Production

• Gathering Media • Storing Media

• Creating Media • Uploading Media

• Editing • Publishing and Sharing

Types of StoriesHistorical

Personal

Instructional

Persuasive

Parody/Fiction

PersonalThe most memorable stories that you can create are those that are personal. These are

stories that no one else can tell because they are through your own or relatives experience. Interview a grand parent, your mom or day, find stories that you didn’t

ever know about. Blend family photos and letters and memorabilia, blend it together and have a masterpiece of a story.

HistoricalWhen you want to tell about history in a documentary type of way. These stories are

fun to create and learn about. It is a great way to add in social studies,, history, writing, reading, researching, the list goes on. Take a research project that you started

in the past and make it into a digital history story!

PersuasivePersuasive writing, known as creative writing or an argument, is a piece of writing in which the writer uses words to convince the reader that the writer's opinion is correct with regard to an issue. Trying to make someone “buy into” an idea that you believe in. It’s fun to make commercials and video advertisements to demonstrate this idea.

The range is open to a lot of things!

InstructionalInstructional story is just like a digital lesson or lecture. You want to keep it short,

between 3-5 minutes, so you want your focus to be very specific. Consider explaining some sort of scientific idea or theory (like gravity or the laws of motion), you could

demonstrate a concrete idea about that topic. Or demonstrating a concept in math that might be difficult, design the problem so that it tells a story, like a movie problem solving. Have fun, but make sure that there is a focus and idea behind the humor.

Informing something to someone in a way that they might not have thought about it helps connect the viewer to the author.

FictionalNo one said that a digital story had to be nonfiction. Think of ways that you can

fictionalize it. Some of the best lessons are told as a fictional story… Remember Little Red Riding Hood?

This goes with the life lesson that you should never wondering into the woods alone as a child.

ParodyA fictional and comedic way to tell a story. One of the most popular genres in internet

videos are comedies, particularly parodies.

Types of MediaStop Motion

Typography

Skit/Movie/Video

Time Lapse

Photography

Animation

Stop MotionFrom clay to paper drawings to legos, stop motion is a fun and easy way to make ideas come alive! There are endless possibilities to using stop motion, it doesn’t have to be

clay! In producing stop motion you take each individual picture.

Time Lapse Set up a camera, set the dials, and watch time tick by! These are incredibly fun videos to make. While many times they serve a specific purpose like in science, this doesn’t have to always be the

case. Think of ways that you can incorporate this into a project. You can also set them to record as you draw or illustrate something. Make a cool animated effect. In time-lapse the pictures are

taken automatically.

TypographyMany videos use this technique which is to use text as a moving piece of media. You

can convey a message or idea very affectively by utilizing this technique.

Photography Use your own pictures, or those found in creative commons, and tell your story that way. Ken

Burns, the master of telling a story through photographs have done this in most of his films. There is even an effect of zooming in, out and around still pictures, called the Ken Burns Effect. You can

also alter photos to focus the attention of the viewer.

AnimationMaking a cartoon takes a lot of work and a lot of drawing. You can certainly add this element to any project, just be ready to commit the time. Consider drawing but use a

stop motion technique to make it a little easier.

Skit/Movie/Video Put on your dramatic hat and find some fellow actors and put together a skit, these can be short 10 sec things or long as 5 minutes. This is a fun way to incorporate yourself or

others into being a part of the presentation.

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FocusUse a bubble map or any kind of thinking chart to get your ideas “focused” onto

something specific. You want to start thinking about what you know and what you need to know about your focus as well as where you want your project to go.

There are many paths you can choose to go from here, explore all of them and choose the one that you feel works the best for your specific goal.

BrainstormingUsing the Three Questions presented in this workshop we will brainstorm story ideas.

This will be helpful for students as a guide next year.

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Using MindMeisterFollow these step to help us collaborate

Click Here

Then Here

Enter your empowered@gmail account

Sign In

Accept Terms

Might need to scroll around to get there-

bottom left

Swipe to reveal

Go to the shared maps and find Energy

Click Energy Brainstorm

Click anywhere in the box to open

To add something double tap the white space and the

keyboard will appear.

Your input will automatically connect to the center bubble. To move it, tap, hold then drag over the

bubble you want to connect

THE 3 QUESTIONSHow has the energy industry impacted your community, your

family, and you specifically?

How will energy impact your community in the future?

How can you impact the energy industry now and in the future?

BrainstormingUsing the three questions, we are going to brainstorm how we could make them into

digital stories. This will be helpful for students as a guide next year.

ResearchTo tell more about a concept you need to make sure that you understand it first. To help focus your presentation you need to research more about the topic. If you are

creating a story which is persuasive towards a belief than you need to know both the pros and cons. Find data! Graphs and charts can make compelling visuals!

Total Consumption by source

36% Petroleum

27% Natural Gas

18% Coal

8% Nuclear

9% Renewable

Total Primary Energy Production = 79.0 quadrillion Btu

31% Natural Gas

26% Coal

21% Oil (includes Natural Gas Plant Liquids)

11% Renewable

10% Nuclear

Until about 1958, the U.S. was largely self-sufficient in terms of energy, producing almost all the energy needed for consumption. petroleum, natural gas, and coal, which together provided 87% of total U.S. primary energy over the past decade—have dominated the U.S. fuel mix for well over 100 years. EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2013 continued significant reliance on the three major fossil fuels through at least 2040, when they still supply more than three-quarters of the nation's overall primary energy consumption. -http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=11951

Research ProcessAsk a question

Research- Google It Determine data needed to answer question Determine methodology for collecting data

Collect data Analyze data

Draw conclusions How will you present results

Identify questions for further study Cite sources

Google Doc AppUse google docs to help you write, edit and share your narrative

Go to the App store and search for the

Google Docs app

Download the App

Find the Document you wish to edit, searching always

makes it easier.

Or start a new document

PrewritingFirst make an Outline Then Draft your first Narrative

Outline

1. Opening with how I use energy. What do I do everyday to use energy?

2. Mention that I don’t even realize how much that I use

3. How has it changed our energy use…

4. how in the past we relied on wood as a primary means of producing energy

5. by burning coal we started a new energy revolution which expanded populations and

fueled expansion

6. how our energy uses increased from the advent of burning coal until today

7. the industrial revolution, refining oil and our gasoline addiction

8. alternative energies and the environmental concern

9. the rise of natural gas by the expanding domestic energy needs

10. the future of energy… how much energy do we have? what are we currently producing?

11. how can we effect the change in our own energy needs

How will energy impact my community?

When I think of the future of energy I guess a good place to start would be looking at how I use

energy. Turning on and off the lights, driving to work, perusing the internet. I pretty much use

energy all of the time, and don’t really notice it. It became one of those things that are just there,

until there not, like when there’s a bad storm and the electric goes out for hours… or watching

the walking dead and thinking wow that would suck to not have a working smartphone! Yet it just

passes us by. So how much do I use? I would expect that it has to be more than my father and

my grandfather, I mean with all of the new technology and what not. and yet if our energy usage

is increasing and so is a population wouldn’t one day we run out?

Until around 1885 we have pretty much relied on wood as our primary means of creating energy.

By burning wood we could heat water and make steam which could run a turbine or an engine

and produce power of some sort. But it was limited by the amount of trees and it burned pretty

fast. After 1885 we found alternatives to produce this heat needed to make energy. At first it

was coal, found in abundance and fueled by the expansion of the railroad. Then the industrial

revolution come and we increased our energy use exponentially, thus leading us to find other

means of energy. Although crude oil had been around for a while before Rockefeller it was his

company that refined it into petroleum and with the help of Henry Ford a new kind of energy

came gasoline. Now we could use even more energy, travel even further and expand our human

endeavour, but alais! With all good things comes the other side of the coin. By burning these

fuel sources we were creating a new form of risk, pollution. As cities grew bigger and more

citizens were able to afford transportation and electricity prevalent in many homes, smog started

to become overwhelming. We needed to find other energy sources something that would

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Summer SessionDay 2

“When words are infused by the human voice, they come alive." -Maya Angelou

agenda

9:00-9:15 - Settle in

9:15-10:00 - Copyright Law and Creative Commons

10:00-10:30 - Using GarageBand and iMovie

10:30-11:00 - Recording our Narratives

11:00-12:00 - Beginning the Production and the apps to use

12:00-1:00 - Lunch - Provided - Discuss your stories with your mouth full

1:00-2:30 - Producing/Editing/Polishing

2:30-3:00 - Sharing our Stories

3:00-3:30 - Discussion and Closing Statements

Day 2 - Friday June 13th

Day 2 Apps

iMovie

Gravie

DropBox

PopoGraph

StopMotionoSnap

Make sure that you have the following apps installed on your iPad

Script / NarrationYour voice is the major focus in a digital story. You need to choose the words that you speak wisely.

Any digital story should last 3-5 minutes. If you have a page and a half of double spaced text you have about 3 minutes of recorded time.

Start by writing your thoughts down on the topic. Follow your thinking map, but remember this is only your first draft. It’s bad to set the amount of pages, but for the sake of time I would say around three written pages.

Next read aloud what you have written. Take your time and take notes about changes or things you might have missed. Edit your revisions.

Read your draft narrative to someone else and get their feedback. Edit as necessary.

Storyboard1) Time — What happens in what order? 2) Interaction — How does the voiceover and music work with the images or video?

Copyright“It’s more rewarding to learn to fish than go to the market

and hand select pre caught fish.”

So before you go looking for what has already been done, why don’t you try doing it yourself ?

Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Photo by Palermo-People-bjs-1

Copyright and Creative CommonsAttribution: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.

Noncommercial: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike: You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Copyright and Creative Commons

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as you credit them for the original creation.

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the creator.

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially, as long as you credit them and license their new creations under the identical terms.

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon their work even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit them and license your new creations under the identical terms.

This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially, and although your new work must also acknowledge them and be non-commercial, you don’t have to license your derivative works on the same terms.

This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing you to download their works and share them with others as long as you credit them, but you can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Recording ScriptUsing GarageBand you will read and record your script. This is not a one shot deal. If you want to change something or rerecord, it is easy to do. Take your time and use a clear, emotional voice.

You do not need to record the entire script in one shot, you can easily edit multiple takes together to create a flawless narrative.

ProductionWe want

Gathering and Creating

We will discuss how to go about gathering the images, sounds, videos and other media, while protecting copyright laws.

Gathering MediaWe want

Storing MediaWe want

Creating MediaWe want

Uploading MediaWe want

EditingWe want

Publishing and SharingWe want

Through the whole process “sharing” will come about a lot. When we share our final products we want something that is well crafted and to the best of the producers abilities. Students will get the opportunity to share their digital stories at the Clay Center for the new mobile exhibit.

ReflectWe want to continually develop our skills while still being proud of our work. With each new production you become better than the last, self reflection and group discussion helps us solidify our craft.

New Stuff

Bloom’s Taxonomy

recognizing, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding

Bloom’s Taxonomy

interpreting, summarizing, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying

Bloom’s Taxonomy

implementing, carrying out, using, executing

Bloom’s Taxonomy

comparing, organizing, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating

Bloom’s Taxonomy

checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring

Bloom’s Taxonomy

designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

Activities

Your TurnOn the iPad open the drive app and answer the following question:

If I had more technology in my classroom, how would I see it being used?

Power Button!if held will power

Home Button!will take you to

this screen

Click here to start a new document

Click here to work on a shared document

Start a word type document

Start a excel type document

Enter a title (include your

name) and click “Create”

Click when finished

Type in this space! Your document

automatically saves as you work.

Click this tiny button

Click share your

document

Type the email of the

receiver

Choose what you want them to be able to

The receivers name might

appear, click it

Click to share!

You can check who has access

A Stick Story

Now tell me a story about you. I doesn’t matter what the story is about, but make it one that you enjoy to tell. Try to make it describe you as a teacher. Let’s find the storyteller within you! !We are going to use the explain everything app (insert icon here!!!), quick tutorial on how to use…

Explain Everything

or select a saved project

click to start new project

Explain Everything

just choose this theme for now!

Explain Everything

Pencil/Drawing Tool *1

Insert an picture or video *2

Eraser Tool

Draw tool color *3

Record your voice and drawing Save your work! *4

*denotes that there is a pop-up menu when held down

Add a new page

Explain Everything

This box will open whenever you hold down the pencil/draw tool.

*1! Pencil/Drawing Tool

Most common choice, but there are other options

*2! Insert an picture or video

Enter the name you want…

Click Save

If you are re-saving a project just select the name from below and click save. Make sure it’s your

project name because it will ask if you want to overwrite… click “yes”

*4! Save your work!

Choose from an array of colors!

*3! Draw tool color

Explain Everything

Enter the name you want…

Click Save

If you are re-saving a project just select the name from below and click save. Make sure it’s your

project name because it will ask if you want to overwrite… click “yes”

*4! Save your work!

Using AirPlay to screen-share

From the bottom-center of the screen, swipe

your finger UP

This is the “control panel”, select “AirPlay”

Select “Apple TV”

Turn on “Mirroring”

If it looks like this than you should see your screen on

the overhead

edmodo activity

Let’s sign up for edmodo!

Click here to type a search or URL

Click “I’m a Teacher”

Fill out the following information!

Click “sign up”

Click “Agree”

Enter Group Code

Click Join

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Make sure to “Send to” empowered stories group

Click “Send”

Compose your message

Select to add a link from a website

When you select and start typing the group

should appear from the drop down menu

Part of this professional development is that we continue to meet as a team outside of the actual sessions.

Try to, at least once a month, respond to (or post) comments to the edmodo blog set up for this session.

You can share anything from ideas about using technology, to what you have done, or answering questions which I will post.

edmodo

group code: u29ac8

Let’s check your knowledge of natural gas. Go to your edmodo page and take the quiz!

What do we already know about energy? It can be anything, not just natural gas related. Go to your edmodo

page and post your thoughts.

Find the quiz and click on it

Let’s copy our posts into a shared google doc now.

Click here to see documents shared

with you

Select this document

Find your name and

click below it to start typing

Type away!

Click here when finished

How can you see digital stories being used?

with you

Click on this document

Find your name and

Type away!

Why Digital Stories?

• Develops visual and multimedia literacy in students !• Addresses the development of the interpretation of digital media and the application of that interpretation to personal message or story

!• Provides students with a competitive and compelling voice by enlarging the boundaries of who students can communicate with and by increasing the depth and power of that communication.

!• Permits students to recapture creativity, develop it and intensify it, apply it, extend it

!• Helps students write more effectively by permitting the visualization of the writing, resulting in an additional level of perception that extends the writing process to a place seldom reached.

!• Provides an authentic personal learning experience- as such; student investment is greatly increased resulting in greatly improved motivation and end product

The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in Berkeley, California is known for developing and disseminating the Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling, which are often cited as a useful starting point as you begin working with

digital stories.

The 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling

1. Point of View What is the main point of the story and what is the perspective of the author?

2. A Dramatic Question A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end of the story.

3. Emotional Content Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the audience to the story.

4. The Gift of Your Voice A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context. !

5. The Power of the Soundtrack Music or other sounds that support and embellish the story.

6. Economy Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.

7. Pacing The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.

Steps to creating an awesome

digital story

FocusBefore you begin any project it is a good to first have an idea of what it is that you want to make your project about.

1. Point of View !What is the main point of the story and what is the perspective of the author?!

2. A Dramatic Question !A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end

of the story.

FocusIt’s time to get your head in the game! If you want to make anything you create successful your best bet is to start with a good focus. Use a bubble map or any kind of thinking chart to get your ideas “focused” onto something specific. You want to start thinking about what you know and what you need to know about your focus as well as where you want your project to go. There are many paths you can choose to go from here, explore all of them and choose the one that you feel works the best for your specific goal.

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Make a Types of Stories

1) How has the energy industry impacted your community, your family, and you specifically?

2) How will energy impact your community in the future?

3) How can you impact the energy industry now and in the future?

Three Questions

ResearchTo tell more about a concept you need to make sure that you understand it first. To help focus your presentation you need to research more about the topic. If you are creating a story which is persuasive towards a belief than you need to know both the pros and cons. Find data! Graphs and charts can make compelling visuals!

3. Emotional Content !Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the

audience to the story.

ResearchTo tell more about a concept you need to make sure that you understand it first. To help focus your presentation you need to research more about the topic. If you are creating a story which is persuasive towards a belief than you need to know both the pros and cons. Find data! Graphs and charts can make compelling visuals! Find ways in which you can make this project “your own”, think of examples and ways to explain something that isn’t found in your research but a way that you might remember. Remember that there is more than google and wikipedia to search for information. Look for videos, pictures and things people already have done.

Script / Narration

Your voice is the major focus in a digital story. You need to choose the words that you speak wisely.

4. The Gift of Your Voice !A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context.

Narration

Take this process by 3 easy steps and you should have no problems recording your lovely voice! Any digital story should last 3-5 minutes. If you have a page and a half of double spaced text you have about 3 minutes of recorded time. !1- Take all the research that you found and notes you made 2- Highlight what you most like 3- Weave this tangled mess

PlanningUsing storyboards as a production tool, we will piece together all the media so that our focus while editing is more centralized.

6. Economy !Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.

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5. The Power of the Soundtrack !Music or other sounds that support and embellish the story.

Putting it Together

We will use iMovie to piece together all of the media elements and make a final product which can be shared.

7. Pacing !The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses.

Putting it Together

Through the whole process “sharing” will come about a lot. When we share our final products we want something that is well crafted and to the best of the producers abilities. Students will get the opportunity to share their digital stories at the Clay Center for the new mobile exhibit.

ShareThrough

Reflect

We want to continually develop our skills while still being proud of our work. With each new production you become better than the last, self reflection and group discussion helps us solidify our craft.

Questions

Three Questions

take a few minutes and respond to each of these questions the best you can. What ever comes to your head first. Do this on pages or google doc. Make a survey of the questions…

Three Questions

Choose one of these questions and explain your answer using a short video clip of you explaining. You don’t need too much detail, just a quick explanation.

Using the camera

Switches to the front and back camera

Slide to switch to “video”

The “mini digital lesson” challenge You are going to use the app explain everything to create a short

digital lesson on one of the topics/questions below. You are going to record them and share them with the other participants after you

complete them. I will assist you anyway that I can. So if you have a question, make sure to ask!

• How is coal created? How is it used? What are it’s positives and negatives? !

• How is natural gas created? How is it used? What are it’s positives and negatives? !

• How do we use energy? !

• What is the history of energy? !

• How has energy changed? And how has it changed the way we live?

Use google Drive to share ways that you use technology already in your

classroom.

with you

Select this document

Find your name and

Type away!

Using pages

Click either “+” to create a new document

Click here to make a new document

objectives

• Participants discuss the use of imagery, including implicit and explicit meanings of visual materials

• Overview on the use of cameras and basic visual composition techniques

• Participants then storyboard and plan what images and/or video.

April 2014 –Sessions 4: Visualizing the Narrative and Storyboarding

Participants discuss the use of imagery, including implicit and explicit meanings of visual materials

Overview on the use of cameras and basic visual composition techniques

Participants then storyboard and plan what images and/or video.

• Use of digital cameras, video recorders and other digital story telling supplies will be covered and practice time set aside

• Participants take the images they need, using their storyboards as a guide.

• Discussion on intellectual property and copyright issues.

May 2014 –Sessions 5: Creating and Collecting Media

Use of digital cameras, video recorders and other digital story telling supplies will be covered and practice time set aside

Participants take the images they need, using their storyboards as a guide.

Discussion on intellectual property and copyright issues.

• Participants are guided through a step‐by‐step instructional session on the basics of digital editing software and will begin to produce their culminating movie.

• All participants should have a rough draft by this point and will be taught step‐by‐step the basics of special effects and transitions to create meaning, panning and zooming to create movement to still images and color to create symbolism.

• Participants complete their digital stories and showcase their work during a relaxed final social period.

June 2014 (Summer Retreat) – Sessions 6‐8

Session 6: Hands‐on Software Instruction and Practice

Session 7: Special Effects

Session 8: Final Tweaks, Presentation and Social Sharing

Participants are guided through a step‐by‐step instructional session on the basics of digital editing software and will begin to produce their culminating movie.

Session 6: Hands‐on Software Instruction and Practice

All participants should have a rough draft by this point and will be taught step‐by‐step the basics of special effects and transitions to create meaning, panning and zooming to create movement to still images and color to create symbolism.

Session 7: Special Effects

Participants complete their digital stories and showcase their work during a relaxed final social period.

Session 8: Final Tweaks, Presentation and Social Sharing

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