Tell Me A Digital Story!

Objectives

• What is digital storytelling?

• Why digital storytelling?

• Examples of digital storytelling

• The tools to create your digital story

• Candy’s Tips and Tricks

What is Digital Storytelling? Let’s Watch!

What did all the stories have in

common?

Why Digital Storytelling?• “a short, personal multimedia tales told from the

heart“ (Daniel Meadows)• form of digital expression, stories can be created

by people everywhere, on any subject, and shared electronically all over the world.

• digital stories are "multimedia sonnets from the people to tell the bigger story of our time, the story that defines who we are.“ (Daniel Meadows)

A Storytelling Project• Choose a person, place, event, a writing…

anything that has a story to be told• Research• Write the story• Download the graphics (optional)• Put it all together using storytelling

software or a tool• Publish!

Content

• Told from the perspective of the person telling the story

• NOT a report, it’s a STORY

(and story doesn’t always mean fiction)

Length

• 1 written page and 2-3 total• Succinct and to the point• Pictures display a tone, feeling, and

communicate beyond what you are saying

• Voice depicts EVERYTHING

Examples• Practice Makes Perfect

• A Personal Tale

• Book Trailers

• Others’ stories

Tools

for

Storytelling

Candy’s Clues

1. PLAN the project carefully (content, length, etc.)2. Make an example for the students (you will learn a lot!)3. Make a rubric with instructions (preferably on a wiki)4. Research5. Script / storyboard6. Pictures7. Recording (get another set of hands, if possible)8. Publish9. Celebrate!

Technology is always secondary to the storytelling

Tell me a fact and I’ll learnTell me a truth and I’ll believe

Tell me a story and I’ll remember it forever