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7 Steps to Creating a Digital Story
techthisout.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling
techszewski.blogs.com
teachstory.org
7 Steps of a Digital Story
1. Writing the Script
2. Planning the Project
3. Creating Folders
4. Recording Voice Over
5. Gather, Create, and Edit Media
6. Rough Cut First then Final Cut
7. Export and Share Your Digital Story
5 Steps - 5 Stages of DS Project
1. Write a two to three minute first person story
2. Collect images to accompany the story
3. Import images into the computer
4. Record the voice over.
5. Align images with script.
Digital Literacy
“What we ought to be developing in our schools is not simply a narrow array of literacy skills limited to a restrictive range of meaning systems, but a spectrum of literacies...”
- Elliot W. Eisner writes The Kind of Schools We Need
Teach Story… or else
Students gather any and all images related to their topic.
Students cannot explain the difference between a digital story, slideshow and multimedia report.
Assessment becomes subjective when the story, visual and media skills have not been adequately taught.
7 Elements (CDS model)
1. Point of view
2. Dramatic question
3. Emotional content
4. Individual voice
5. Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing
Defining Digital Storytelling
the practice of combining personal narrative with multimedia to produce a short autobiographical movie
Defining Story
“a narrative account constructed around four central themes: character, conflict, struggle, goal”
- Kendal Haven Write Right
Step 1: What’s Your Story?
“Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say,”
– Barbara Ueland If You Want to Write
Challenges of Writing the Script
Loss of storytelling culture
Weak story literacy skills
Avoiding the narrated slideshow pitfall
Traditional composition approaches
Balancing telling vs. showing
Many Paths Lead to a Good Story
Answer an open ended question
Concise moment of change
Note card approach
Writing into a photo
Story Spine
Story Sparks (Jay O’Callahan)
Story Core
What is the central struggle?
The dramatic question?
Story Circle
Synthesizing experience and emotions
VPS for Don’t Call Me Mr. B
Don’t know anything about my last name. What are you?
Nobody in family talked about our background.
Parents died early. No chance to ask questions.
People shorten my last name to “Mr. B”
Make sure people know my full last name. Don’t answer to Mr. B
Feel good about getting message across to my students.
Find peace in maintaining link to my past thru my last name.
Step 2: Planning the Project
Practice what you preach
Fail to plan, plan to fail
Setting realistic expectations
iMovie, Adobe, Microsoft?
Test your software, equipment, working environment
Step 4: Recording the Voice Over
Recording within iMovie
Microphones, headphones
Using Audacity
MP3 recorder
Step 5: Gather, Create, Edit Media
Start with images, hold off on video til later
BIG, engaging images
Google, Picassa, Flickr
Visual literacy
Step 6: Rough Cut then Final Edits
Import your images
Drag and Drop
Add VO
Sync images with VO
Adjust timing of images
Add transitions, effects
Step 7: Sharing Your Digital Story
Export = compressing =
making file size smaller
CD quality
Full DV
Web version
Upload to YouTube
Will My Name Be Shouted Out
“…media production gives voice to students who
are otherwise silenced in their schools and
communities. It allows students to represent their
experiences and their communities as cultural
insiders, instead of the incessant misrepresentation
of them outside their communities.”
- Kathleen Tyner Literacy in the Digital Age