Digitalstorytelling and education: an introduction
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The document explores the evolution and significance of digital storytelling in education, highlighting its historical context from web 1.0 to current educational practices. It emphasizes the importance of personal narratives and community engagement in crafting compelling stories while also detailing various multimedia tools and assignments for students. Additionally, it discusses the impact of storytelling on pedagogical methods and the potential benefits for developing information and digital literacy.
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“Educational Portrait & Presentation
In order to successfully complete college level courses,
one should be able to identify how one learns and
processes information. The assignment will be created as
a digital story and should be between 2 and 4 minutes
long. The assignment may be uploaded on-line to the
Blackboard assignment area.
Tutorials on using Photo Story 3 to complete the
assignment will be given in class [students may use other
digital audio/visual or movie making software (such as
Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) as long as it can be
saved in a video format compatible with Windows OS]. ”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/digitalstorytellingforedu-150330165356-conversion-gate01/85/Digitalstorytelling-and-education-an-introduction-84-320.jpg)
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- 2. Table of contents 1.Storytelling 2.Classic digital storytelling 3.Newer forms (since 2004) 4.For education
- 3. But wait, what's storytelling?
- 4. The Freytag:
- 5. Or the personal? • Delight and instruct
- 6. Stories are: • About someone important • About an important event • About what one does? From the CDS Cookbook http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.html
- 8. How much is mystery? The last man on Earth sat alone in a room.
- 9. How much is mystery? The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. (Fredric Brown, “Knock”, 1948)
- 10. Mystery? It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- 11. Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
- 12. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
- 17. A list definition For a given audience, a story is a sequence of content, anchored on a problem, which engages that audience with emotion and meaning.
- 18. 2. Digital storytelling In the 1990s Web 1.0 storytelling • Hypertext • Multimedia • Browser-focused • Connected with offline, analog content (textbooks) • Evanescent
- 19. Web 1.0 era storytelling Email chain letters, jokes • Social • Boundaries fuzzy • Microcontent • Virtual community facilitation (1980s on)(Snopes.com)
- 23. Example: “Ted’s Caving Journal” (circa 2001) (one copy, from http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html)
- 24. Features: • Multilinear • Multimedia • Browserish • Serial structure
- 25. Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe. This is a matter of great urgency…
- 26. The Digital Storytelling Curriculum
- 27. Digital storytelling roots Effective: • Storytelling, not technology per se • Personal connectionDigital Storytelling at Ukaiah, 2006
- 28. Digital storytelling roots NITLE variant: • Non-personal narratives • Campus focus
- 29. Educational projects growing • Community • Curricula • Support (http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/StorytellingintheAgeofthe/42327)
- 34. Republish content via blog • Pedagogy • Social feedback • Publicity • Pepys Diary • Dracula Blogged • Ulysses and da Vinci per day http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/
- 38. Bookblogging Extended networks • Support wikis (example: Pynchon) • William Gibson lost his Node
- 48. All over the Web • http://www.pepysdiary.com/ • http://smalltownnoir.com/ • http://newdigitalstorytelling.net/2011 /05/15/storytelling-by-twitter-three- line-novels/ • http://www.facebook.com/zytomirski
- 50. Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a different idea about how a story should end – or even begin? And, perhaps most importantly, can writers really leave their egos at the door? “About”, http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/About
- 52. Embedded within Slideshare Web platform apparatus
- 54. Storytelling by podcast The Yellow Sheet, by Librivox team (2007) • Text then podcast • http://librivox.org/the -yellow-sheet-by- librivox-volunteers/ • More: Podiobooks, http://www.podioboo ks.com/
- 55. Flickr and storytelling Tell a story in 5 frames group “The Chase” (Benjamin!, 2009)
- 61. Remixing Example: "Farm to Food", Eli the Bearded (2008)
- 65. Social photo stories Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/) Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)
- 66. Social photo stories Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)
- 70. Gaming as part of mainstream culture • Median age of gamers shoots past 30 • Industry size comparable to music • Impacts on hardware, software, interfaces, other industries • Large and growing diversity of platforms, topics, genres, niches, players
- 78. Synthesis
- 80. 3. DS and education • Instructors creating learning content in story form • Students making stories • Anyone making campus stories
- 81. Faculty and campus stories • Good route to multimedia • Connect w/net.gen • Unusual approach to content creation • Autobiographical option
- 82. Student stories • Constructivist pedagogy • Rethinking material • Discover/develop voice • Information and digital literacy • Potential job market benefit
- 83. Assignments
- 84. Assignment example “Educational Portrait & Presentation In order to successfully complete college level courses, one should be able to identify how one learns and processes information. The assignment will be created as a digital story and should be between 2 and 4 minutes long. The assignment may be uploaded on-line to the Blackboard assignment area. Tutorials on using Photo Story 3 to complete the assignment will be given in class [students may use other digital audio/visual or movie making software (such as Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) as long as it can be saved in a video format compatible with Windows OS]. ”
- 85. Assignment example “Develop a portrait of yourself as a learner. Include answers to the following in the project: a. What is the most important “thing” you’ve learned? b. How do you recall learning the “thing”? Describe how you remembered learning it. c. Pick a mode of learning described in this class and discuss how it relates to the most important thing. d. What does learning mean to you? Students will be presenting their completed portraits to the class during designated times. “ Virginia Coleman, Mercy College