Creating your story: Scriptwriting &

Storyboards

Objective To evaluate the process and pedagogy supporting the use

of storytelling through podcasts and vodcasts

What is podcasting?

• WillowCast #37• WillowCast #34

Tell me and I forget.Teach me and I remember.

Involve me and I learn.~ Benjamin Franklin

How do Student’s Podcast?

‣ Research or summarize activities

‣ Cite appropriately

‣ Write Script

‣ Produce/Publish for the World!

‣ Speaking

‣ Reading

‣ Creative Commons

Process in the classroom

• Write the story script

Establish the story core

• Use technology to pull it all together

Create the digital production

The Story Core

Digital Storytelling and Literacy

http://www.jasonohler.com

Ohler, J. (2008). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to LITERACY, LEARNING & CREATIVITY, CA: Corwin

Daniel Pink

Agricultural Age (farmers)

Industrial Age (factory workers)

Information Age (knowledge workers)

Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)

Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future. NY: Riverhead Books

Writing the Script Writing conventions

InformalExamples:

Poor: “The campus had three inches of precipitation last night”

Better: “The campus had three inches of rain last night”

PaceSlow – boring or tension? Fast – difficult to understand?

Formatting the ScriptMulti - Column Script (storyboard)

Left columnRight columnRecommended for Video

Screenplay format Linear fashionRecommended for podcasting

LINEAR

Four column format

Podcasting Examples & Resources

NPR

GarageBand

Audacity

Storyboard Resources:

http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard

University of Houston

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/storyboarding.html