Material about creating a digital storytelling.

1. ABOUT DIGITAL
STORYTELLING

2. What is Digital Storytelling?
 Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the
practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories
 digital documentaries
 computer-based narratives
 digital essays
 electronic memoirs
 interactive storytelling, etc.
 telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including
graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.

3. What is Digital Storytelling?
focus on a specific topic
contain a particular point of view
mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips,
and/or music
length between 2 and 5 minutes
personal tales
historical events
exploring life

4. What is Digital Storytelling?
• Short, personal multimedia tales told from the heart
• Can be created by people everywhere, on any subject, and
shared electronically all over the world
• Multimedia sonnets from the people
• A gaggle of invisible histories which, when viewed together, tell
the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are

5. Digital Storytelling , when and where
 Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS)
Berkeley, California
since the early 1990's.
 Today
businesses
universities centers
libraries
schools
,

6. Educational Uses
 Digital Storytelling as an Effective
Instructional Tool for Teachers
a way to present new material
a way to enhance current lessons within
a larger unit
a way to facilitate discussion
a way of making abstract or conceptual
content more understandable

7. Educational Uses
 Digital Storytelling as an Effective Learning Tool
for Students
 students may be given assignments in which they are first
asked to research a topic and then choose a particular point
of view
 students begin to research and tell stories of their own as
they learn to use the library and the Internet to research
rich, deep content
 students may develop enhanced communications
 students learn to create stories for an audience, and present
their ideas and knowledge in an individual and meaningful
way
 students have the opportunity to share their work
Digital Storytelling fosters collaboration

8. The 7 Elements of Digital Storytelling
1. Point of View
2. A Dramatic Question
3. Emotional Content
4. The Gift of Your Voice
5. The Power of the Soundtrack
6. Economy
7. Pacing

9. The specific requirements of an educational
digital story
 1. The Overall Purpose of the Story
2. The Narrator’s Point of View
3. A Dramatic Question or Questions
4. The Choice of Content
5. Clarity of Voice
6. Pacing of the Narrative
7. Use of a Meaningful Audio Soundtrack
8. Quality of the Images, Video & other Multimedia Elements
9. Economy of the Story Detail
10. Good Grammar and Language Usage
 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/view_story.cfm?vid=409&category
id=16&d_title=History

10.  Stupeflix
 Movie maker

12. Web 2.0 Resources
 Many popular Web 2.0 resources deal with digital storytelling
and related technology tools and techniques. A small number
of these helpful sites are shown below.
 http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
 http://storycenter.org/blog/
 http://www.stenhouse.com/html/lmillerpodcast.htm
 http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways
 http://readwriteweb.wikispaces.com/Digital+Storytelling
 http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/digitalstorytelling