Digital Storytelling

Sound and Graphic Editing TipsCompiling the story with MovieMaker

Deborah Fuller Education Technology and Literacy Dept.

Purpose

What is digital storytelling? How can it be used in the classroom? What do I need to get started? How do I put it all together?

• utilize a variety of skills and resources to plan and create a multimedia project to express their ideas, knowledge, and creativity

• compare and contrast the past and present• represent abstract and concrete ideas • express their thoughts, feelings and personal

life experiences.• Provides teachers with a way to• sensitize students to diverse perspectives

and biases• provide visual cues to reinforce concepts

Digital Storytelling…allows students to

Figg, Candace

Plan Digital Story

• Images: collect, edit, collage, caption, resave• Music/Sounds: save clips• Storyboard: Write narration, select music

clips, plan image sequence, timing and image transitions– Don’t forget title ‘slide’, credits slide(s) and

‘fair use’ statement(Prepared under Educational Fair Use Guidelines. Further Use Restricted)

Use available tools

• PowerPoint to edit, collage, save images.– Insert (Pictures, Clip Art, Shapes, Text Boxes)– Edit with drawing tools and picture tools.– File, save as (file type, scroll down), gif or jpg.

• Other tools? Web 2.0 tools– Wordle.net (word clouds)

• Audacity to record narration and mix music and sounds.

• Windows MovieMaker to compile the final product.

Created with Wordle.net

Crop and save image…try it.

Try it

• Create word clouds with Wordle. http://www.wordle.net

• Type words multiple times to increase size.– Use ~ (tilda) to hold phrases together– Separate using a space

• Screen capture--ALT, PrintScreen—paste into PowerPoint and save as a single image.

Create a Wordle Cloud…try it.

Practice collaging and saving the image.

Cook Library

Stevens Hall

Hawkins Hall

Practice collaging and saving the image.

Recording Soudtrack

•Use Audacity to record narration track•Export as mp3•Open narration track and saved music file.•Adjust the sound level of each track, generate silence, fade in/out portions.•File, Export as wav or mp3 file.•Save in the same folder with images.

Audacity – record narration

• Assemble story in MovieMaker– Import images and sound files to collections

pane–Drag images and sound track down to the

timeline–Add image transitions and effects.–Adjust image timings to match sound track.– Save project. Export as a single wmv file.

Prepare Digital Story

The finished movie will be a single wmv (windows media video) file.

ResourcesActivity Structures for Digital Storytelling to Educate and Inform.

Content created by Candace Figg, PhD. West Texas A&M University http://www.handy4class.com/activity_types/dstory.php

Electronic Portfolios http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. University of Houston, TX. http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/

TU Student Examples and tutorial. http://pages.towson.edu/fuller/digital_storytelling.htm

Cool Tool:Create word clouds with Wordle. http://www.wordle.net

(Remember to screen capture –ALT, PrintScreen—paste into PowerPoint and save as a single image.)

Locate sound files (wav, avi, or mp3) and save in project folder

http://www.sounddogs.com/ Click on ‘preview mp3’ to listen.Right click, preview mp3, ‘Save Target as’ to save in project folder.

http://soundboard.com Choose category—try Science. Search a topic.

Playlist to preview; Download track, choose track.

http://freeplaymusic.com Choose ‘style’ or ‘feel’; click on mp3 to open and

preview or save.

Locating Sounds and Music

•Audacity –a free open source software for recording and editing sounds. Free download from ‘sourceforge’ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windowsAlso download LAME MP3 encoder - Allows Audacity to export MP3 files.The first time you use the program to save a mp3, the program looks for a way to encode the file. The file must be associated using LAME encoder file ‘lame_enc.dll’.

Browse for the file. (It may be in C:\Program files\Lame folder).FAQ •Easy to follow online tutorialshttp://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

Documentation and tutorials http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/Audacity Wiki http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity_Wiki_Home_Page

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