Digital Storytelling
Technology resources for
Fremd Faculty and Staff

"What kind of learning experience could we create through storytelling?....could we teach students to have a voice that would enable them to communicate rich, meaningful stories in a compelling manner throughout the rest of their lives?

....digital storytelling, merges a personal story with video, still-frame imagery, music, and voice to create a personal multimedia story. Students begin by composing their narrative story, and from that, strip the narrative to its essence to develop a script. The script is then rebuilt into a digital story by the inclusion of multimedia in a highly engaging process that merges composition and creativity to extend the story and make it come alive.

This is a truly authentic learning experience that represents value-added technology use, and develops many different types of intellectual skills in students. But most importantly, it helps students to develop a competitive voice, and gives them a creative palette to compose in a language familiar to them (technology)." more....

The preceding is from an article written by David Jakes.*

View a digital story....

Momnotmom: http://www.storycenter.org/momquicktime.html
The Look: http://www.wmich.edu/pt3/ds/look.html
Hurricane Rita: http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/rita.htm

Why Digital Storytelling?

• Engage students in 21st century learning skills

• Increase students' motivation towards their projects, both inside and outside school

• Foster instruction that supports all kinds of learners

• Flexible application to national, state and local standards within multiple disciplines and curricula.

• Powerful media literacy learning opportunities

General Resouces

The Nuts and Bolts; (a quick overview)
http://www.jakesonline.org/dst_techforum.pdf

The World of Digital Storytelling
(and other articles that will tempt you to create you own digital story!**)
 

Center for Digital Storytelling:
http://www.storycenter.org/

DigiTales
http://www.digitales.us/

Educational Uses of Digital Story Telling:
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/

Educational uses of Digital Stories PowerPoint:
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/DS-web.mht

 JAKESONLINE.org
http://www.jakesonline.org/storytelling.htm

Digital Storytelling 2.0
http://dst20.pbwiki.com/

Art and Digital Storytelling Master Website  http://www.jasonohler.com/storytelling/

American Film Institute
 www.afi.edu/docs/missionresearch.pdf

Digital Storytelling - The  "Year Project"
Download a sample at: http://www.iceberg.org/newsletters/1965guidry.wmv.

Niles Township High School
 A great place to view actual student projects:
www.digitalstories.org

Photo-sharing Networks

Creative Commons
www.creativecomons.org
Clear delineation about how the photography can be used by others

Flickr
www.flickr.com
Be sure to read copyright notice

BubbleShare
www.bubbleshare.com
Be sure to read copyright notice

Online Authoring Environments

Jumpcut, www.jumpcut.com

Toufee, www.toufee.com

Eyespot, www.eyespot.com

Digitalstoryteller, www.digitalstoryteller.org

Mogopop, www.mogopop.com 
Users can create digital story content for distribution to iPods.

Imtoo, www.imtoo.com
Permits Windows based digital stories into formats
compatable with the iPod.

Digital Grammar

Podcast

Online Video Hosting Sites

I have reviewed a few sites that will host videos students create but I would not advise using them as there does not seem to be a method of controlling what is posted by others. I suggest you post student videos on your own teacher website. Please see the Technology Coordinator, your Technology Coach, or Jason Gibbs, Webmaster, for more details.

*David Jakes is an Instructional Technology Coordinator who works tirelessly developing and researching ways teachers can engage students through the use of technology in lessons. Please visit Jakesonline for a wealth of technology information and ideas.

**Articles in this document are copied and made available in PDF with permission from the Illinois Computing Educators organization, specifically, Volume 2007, Issue 2.