2.+Digital+Story+Telling

=Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Material Found On the Web =

(taken from www.digitales.us)

Educational Goals of Digital Storytelling
 Teachers can:  • Create a digital story for use as a hook for a lesson;  • Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit;  • Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view.  Students can:  • Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content;  • Develop communication skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience;  • Increase their computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.

Educational Objectives of Digital Storytelling
 Although not a comprehensive list, digitial storytelling can be used to:  • Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media;  • Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms;  • Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own; <span style="background-color: #f8f882; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> • Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others; <span style="background-color: #f8f882; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives.

<span style="background-color: #f5b2f0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">THE TASK

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Follow these steps carefully and don't skip any:**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿ REMEMBER: In order to have something to say, you must choose a book from your classroom library and read it - TEACHERS! you must ask your students to bring their favourite books (elementary, beginners) to class, prepare a box in which books are going to be kept and looked after throughout the course and control that each student takes a book that is not his or hers-. ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Next step would be to control their reading. For that purpose, teachers will ask students to write a brief summary, the format they prefer. Some may want to summarize the story in powerpoint. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Once teachers correct students' summaries to check they've read their books then they will give students a script template which will be useful to organize the making-up of their videos. To fill it in students must follow the following steps:



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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">2. Create a folder on the desktop where you can store the materials you find.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">3. Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. - Save these resources in your folder. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">4. Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects. - Save these resources in your folder. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">5. Try to find informational content, which might come from web sites, word processed documents, or PowerPoint slides. - Save these resources in your folder. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">6. Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question? ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">1. Decide on the purpose and point of view of your digital story.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">2. Write a script that will be used as narration in your digital story AND provides the purpose and point of view you have chosen. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">1. Show your digital story to your colleagues.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">2. Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, and used in your classroom. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">4. Congratulate yourself for a job well done *
//<span style="background-color: #f8f882; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Since an image is worth a thousand words, here you have a video created by one of our students. Remember that you can use any video editor or versions of Movie Maker: //

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