Digital Storytelling - The Basics

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Digital Storytelling: The Basics

“We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves.”

- Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind

With …

Caroline Cerveny, SSJ, D. Min.

Your aspiring “Digital

Storyteller”

… a “Digital Immigrant” . . .

in the company of many other

Digital Immigrants and Natives!

… a story about my digital

footsteps! 1983!

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1983

stories tell us about our life

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stories touch us

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stories tell us something

about someone else

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stories are both personal and universal

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Matt's Story (Digital Storytelling Workshop at Youth UpRising)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCRHTQwXAk

Digital Storytelling - "Bring The Painted Dragons to Life by Putting

Pupils in Their Eyes", a Chinese Proverb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWzCuDCNNA

Students working on a Digital Storytelling project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_w5LC1OwKs

… a developing Digital Storyteller

… my first digital video … after some practice…

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Questions

Digital Storytelling – Steps to create your story - Handout

Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

Decide what your story is about. Is it about…

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someone important to you?

a place in your life?

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an event in your life?

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who you are?

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what you do?

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a challenge you have overcome?

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or is it about someone else

and one of their stories?

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Write your story

iMovie Storyboard - Handout

Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

Tips for Making Your Movie - Handout

Available at http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling/

THE TOOLS

Photo and Music Options

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Creative Commons

• iStockPhoto

– http://www.istockphoto.com/

• Stock Xchng

– http://www.sxc.hu/

• Stock Vault

– http://www.stockvault.net/

• Flickr

– http://flickr.com/

Images

• DigiTales Image Resources– http://www.digitales.us/resources/image_sources.php

More Image Resources

• Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

• It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

• Download Audacity– http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

• Download the LAME MP3 encoder to export as an MP3– http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/

• Audacity Tutorials and Installation Instructions– http://tinyurl.com/5h2jmc

Record and Remix Audio

http://www.jamstudio.com/

Compose Original Music

• http://freeplaymusic.com/

Terms of Service– If you are using Freeplay Music for:

• Personal Non-Commercial Use (Non-revenue generating). This excludes broadcast use of any kind, including, without limitation, web, blog, and podcast use; or

• Educational, Non-Commercial use (this is limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast)

– Then Freeplay Music's compositions and recordings may be used without a fee.

• Free Music Project– http://freemusic.freeculture.org/

• ccMixter– http://ccmixter.org/

• PodSafe Music Network– http://music.podshow.com/

• Podsafe Audio– http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

• Bravenet– http://www.resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips

Music Resources

• DigiTales Music and Sound Resources– http://www.digitales.us/resources/music_sound_sources.php

More Sound Resources

THE TOOLS

Software and Internet Applications

Rubrics for Digital Storieshttp://www.digitales.us/evaluating/scoring_guide.php

• iMovie

– http://tinyurl.com/5r5nsl

• Windows Movie Maker

– http://tinyurl.com/53yvx

• Microsoft PhotoStory

– http://tinyurl.com/48jvat

Software

• If you don’t want students to use their own e-mail addresses to register for the following Internet applications, try using the Gmail trick.

– G-Mail Trick http://snipurl.com/googletricks

Gmail “Trick” for Student Registration

• Web 2.0 storytelling applications:

– Image Editors

– Video Editors

– Media Mashup and Creation Tools

– Media Publishing

Storytelling 2.0

• Picnik

– http://www.picnik.com/

• Phixr

– http://www.phixr.com/

• FotoFlexer

– http://fotoflexer.com/

• Splashup

– http://www.splashup.com/

Image Editing

• http://www.befunky.com/

• http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

• http://www.myoats.com/

• http://www.picnik.com/

• http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

• http://www.dumpr.net/

Avatar Options

• Jaycut

– http://jaycut.com/

• Movie Masher

– http://www.moviemasher.com/

Video Editing

• Animoto

– http://education.animoto.com/

• Voicethread

– http://voicethread.com/

• OneTrueMedia

– http://www.onetruemedia.com/

• Bookr

– http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/

• Scrapblog

– http://www.scrapblog.com/

• BubbleShare

– http://www.bubbleshare.com/

• SlideRoll

– http://www.slideroll.com/

Image/Video Mashups

• xTimeline– http://www.xtimeline.com/

• OurStory– http://www.ourstory.com/

• Mnemograph– http://mnemograph.com/

For more interactive media timelines visit:– http://snipurl.com/timelines

Media Timelines

• MakeBeliefsComix– http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

• Kerpoof– http://www.kerpoof.com/

• Comiqs– http://comiqs.com/

• Toonlet– http://toonlet.com/

• Toondoo– http://www.toondoo.com/

Comic Strip Generators

• Moonk

– http://www.moonk.com/

• TeacherTube

– http://teachertube.com/

• SchoolTube

– http://www.schooltube.com/

• YouTube

– http://www.youtube.com/

Publishing Stories

ACCESS MORE RESOURCES

http://delicious.com/ccerveny/DigitalStoryTelling

Where do I start?

Explore the Kaleidoscope!

• RCIA – Carmen Cayon

• Parish – Transfiguration (Marietta, Georgia) http://www.transfiguration.com/transfiguration_video.htm

• Children – Creation Story

• Youth – Scrapblog

• And….

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Choose ONE! Start!

Discussion Questions 1. How can you as a

communications minister use storytelling and digital media to enhance what you do in your teaching or pastoral ministry to enhance 21st Century Faith Learning Opportunities?

2. What kinds of "stories" could you use or involve others in telling in your faith learning ministry with digital tools?

Digital Catechesis - http://digitalcatechesis.ning.com/

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Digital Catechesis Network

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Questions

To Tell Your Story – What is the gift?Credits

By: Katie M. Christo

Links By: Jennifer Carrier Doorman

Thank you for attending CSCC 2009

Digital Storytelling: The Basics

For Additional Resources

http://delicious.com/ccerveny/DigitalStoryTelling

Katie Christo’s Wiki - http://katiechristo.pbworks.com/Digital+Storytelling

Photography

Creative Commons from Flickr

Caroline Cerveny © 2007-2008

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Caroline Cerveny, SSJ, D. Min.

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