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Digital Storytelling Bootcamp: Learning the Basics of Using Digital Photos, Audio and Video as a Precursor to Incorporating Multimodal Assignments in the Classroom Presenter: Jennifer Sias, Associate Professor
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Page 1: Digital Storytelling Bootcamp: Digital Storytelling Bootcamp: Learning the Basics of Using Digital Photos, Audio and Video as a Precursor to Incorporating.

Digital Storytelling Bootcamp: 

Learning the Basics of Using Digital Photos, Audio and Video as a Precursor to Incorporating Multimodal Assignments in

the Classroom

Presenter: Jennifer Sias, Associate Professor

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Facilitator:  Jennifer Sias, Associate Professor and Director of Research, Information Literacy & Instructional Services

(University Libraries)

Abstract:

Multi-modal compositions and multi-genre assignments are being embraced in higher education by faculty who are open to students demonstrating their knowledge, understanding and mastery of concepts through multiple literacies. Many students flourish when they have opportunities to express themselves not only in the written form but also through the visual arts, audio and video and are capable of producing persuasive and moving works, including public service announcements, podcasts, vodcasts (video podcasts) and digital stories.

While many students of this generation seem adept in using (or at least have some familiarity with) various forms of technology to produce these types of assignments, professors who may not have a working knowledge of all things video, audio, etc. may be reluctant to incorporate digital storytelling and other multi-modal assignments in their courses. This workshop will be designed to give participants hands-on experience in taking digital photographs, recording digital audio and shooting digital video in teams to produce mini digital stories.  Professor Sias will then demonstrate how to import participants’ digital photos, audio and video for basic editing using widely available audio and video editing software.   This is a two-part workshop; participants for this session must also register for Part II on Wednesday, 8:45-10:45 (Workshop 5B).

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AgendaDay One 945-1145

945 – 1015 Introduction and DiscussionWhat is a multimodal composition?

What is a digital story?

How can digital stories and multimodal compositions be used in the classroom as alternative assignments?

How might multimodal assignments and/or digital stories be assessed?

What basic equipment is needed to produce a digital story?

1015-1145 Creating and Gathering Content for Your Digital Story

Divide into groups

Distribute equipment

Learn how to operate equipment

Determine story approach

Shoot video/collect artifacts, record

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AgendaDay Two 845-1045

845-1015 Editing, recording voice-overs, producing Organizing and Storyboarding your content

Import video, audio, etc. to computer

Editing

Record narration if needed

Produce Digital Story

1015-1045 Group PresentationsReflections

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What is a multimodal composition?

Multimodal – multiple modes, methods or types

Multimodal composition – a composition or project involving multiple types of communication (written, audio, video, visual imagery, etc.)

Related terminology: multigenre, multimedia, digital storytelling

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What is a digital story?

A first-person narrative told with digital media (The Center for Digital Storytelling)

A digital story is one told with the aid of any kind of digital device or software.

Pictures/still images used to tell a story

Audio

Video

Graphics/slides/annotations

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Grandma JohnsonIntroduction to her digital story

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PSAishHomeless cats who need … homes!

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Aaron’s videoOne of Dr. Cynthia Selfe’s students

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How can digital stories and multimodal compositions be used in the classroom as alternative assignments?

In place of a research paper

In addition to a research paper

In combination with a research paper (perhaps a “shorter” research paper combined with a digital story)

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Assessment

Rubrics

See PSA Assignment Rubrics and other materials provided by Dr. Cynthia Selfe:

http://www.marshall.edu/wac/PICS.HTML

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Basic Equipment

Computer and software for editingPC – Windows Movie Maker

Mac – iMovie, Final Cut Pro

Audio - Audacity

Digital camera and/or digital video camera

Voice/audioDigital Voice Recorder

Microphone connected to computer

ScannerIf you have print photos or a print image, you might want to use a scanner to scan and upload images

Storage – hard drive or portable hard drive or USB for storage of your “story ingredients” and for the final production

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1015-1145 Creating and Gathering Content for Your Digital Story

Divide into teamsTeam One - Drinko

Team Two - Old Main

Team – Memorial Student Center

Team – Huntington, attractions & things to do nearby

Distribute equipment

Learn how to operate equipment

Determine story approach

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Time: A simple storyBy Anne Davis, Kanawha County school teacher and

participant in the Marshall University Writing Project’s 2009 Summer Institute

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One last example Ian Nolte

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Go forth andShoot video/collect artifacts, & record!

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 Bibliography

 Alexander, Brian and Alan Levine. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 6

(November/December 2008). http://tiny.cc/dZZ7C Harrington, Richard. A Teacher’s Guide to Digital Media in the Classroom.

Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2009. James R. Squire Office of Policy Research. Writing in a Changing World: A

Policy Research Brief. National Council of Teachers of English. September 2008: 15-22.

 Selfe, Cynthia. Multimodal Compositions. 3rd Annual Charles Lloyd Writing

Symposium. Spring 2009. Writing Across the Curriculum. Marshall University. http://www.marshall.edu/wac/PICS.HTML

 ---. Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Pres, Inc., 2007. ---. “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal

Composing.” College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009). http://tiny.cc/d5UxJ

 

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 Helpful websites:

•http://www.marshall.edu/wac/PICS.HTML

•http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/multimodalliteracies

•http://www.storycenter.org/

•http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx (For rubrics, activities and lesson plans you could modify)

•http://www.theflip.com/

•http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra_specs.II.shtml (Best value = FlipUltraHD $199. High Def and 8GB storage) (You can

order these online or buy at Best Buy and no doubt other places locally)

•http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=1009141 (WesternDigital and other external hard drives)

 

Sites for hosting finished videos/movies:•www.youtube.com (Example: http://www.youtube.com/user/stockard02) •http://www.vimeo.com/ 


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