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Digital Storytelling

Digital Composition Sampler Presentation
March 21, 2012

Amy Goodloe
Digital Composition Coordinator
Program for Writing and Rhetoric, CU Boulder
Preface

   What follows is a very brief version of my COLTT presentation
    on digital storytelling, which I created to deliver at a Digital
    Composition Sampler presentation for PWR faculty on March
    21, 2012.
   Most of what I cut out of this version focuses on the process
    of composing digital stories, as that’s more relevant to those
    who are ready to begin composing their own. I also removed
    the playable video clips that serve as examples of different
    types of digital storytelling because they can’t be uploaded to
    SlideShare.
   If you’re interested in working on your own digital storytelling
    project, please consider participating in the week-long
    workshop I’ll be leading this summer. Contact me for more
    info!
Screen shot from a student’s digital storytelling project
Overview

              Define digital storytelling


Review its many uses in civic and educational contexts


       Identify benefits to faculty and students


        Illustrate approaches and process

What is Digital Storytelling?
"Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of
the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout
history, storytelling has been used to share
knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have
taken many forms. Stories have been adapted to
each successive medium that has emerged, from
the circle of the campfire, to the silver screen,
and now the computer screen."



                                 (Leslie Rule 2009)
Stories can be...

 imaginative              educational
   fiction, comics, TV      documentaries
     shows, movies
                           persuasive
 informational              call to action,
   histories,                 political, activism
     biographies
                           and more...
We like stories because...

They hold our attention

• John Medina’s Brain Rule #4: “We don’t
  pay attention to boring things”

They move us

• Stories are often more engaging than
  other kinds of information
What makes a story “digital”?

composed with multiple forms of
digital media:
 photos             sound effects
 graphics           audio narration
 video              music
 animation          text
What makes a story “digital”?

viewable only on digital devices

• computers, tablets, smartphones
• typically video or presentation

shareable across online social
networks
• easily distributed to friends and family
• potential for global audience
What makes it “digital storytelling”?


The phrase means more than the sum of
              its parts




 Just because it’s digital and tells a story,
that doesn’t make it “digital storytelling”
These are digital storytelling projects


    photo essay documenting an immigrant’s
    adjustment to American life

      video reflection on overcoming a learning
      disability

    multimedia presentation on the slippery nature
    of gender identity
These are not


CNN story on the “Sissy Boy Experiment”


  20/20 segment on identity theft


History Channel show on the Roaring 20’s
Digital Storytelling is Grassroots

  • Amateurs using consumer-end tools


  • Purpose is to explore, enlighten, move, or
    persuade, not to sell


  • Often focuses on personal growth or social change


  • Enables us to move from being consumers of
    digital content to producers

Who’s Using Digital Storytelling?
 Public Health              Advocacy Groups
                                Sustainability
 Social Services
                                Diversity
 Community Organizations       Social welfare
 Business                   K-12 Schools
 Local Governments          Colleges & Universities
 Museums and Libraries
Brief Intro to Digital Storytelling
Brief Intro to Digital Storytelling
Brief Intro to Digital Storytelling
Brief Intro to Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Digital Storytelling in Education

 All levels
   K-12 schools
   undergraduate and graduate classes
   research projects
   student services
 Across all disciplines
 Composed by students, faculty, and staff
 For a variety of audiences and purposes
Potential Uses by Faculty

Convey course material using a wider array of
communication tools than text alone


Share research insights with broader audience


Create your own to serve as an example of the kind of
project you’d like students to develop
Topics for Faculty Stories

Memories of:
• Learning to read and write (and study)
• Navigating a computer for the first time
• What led you into your field of study

An event that was:
• Embarrassing but educational
• Perspective-shifting or motivating
• Particularly relevant to a concept in your
  discipline
Potential Uses by Students

Research projects
• Historical: using archival footage
• Contemporary: using footage captured by
  students or from fair use sources

Visual argument
• Persuade through multiple modalities

Critiques
• “Talk back” to pop culture through creative
  remix
Potential Uses by Students

Service learning projects
• Raising awareness about social issues or
  communities
• Encouraging action on behalf of organizations

Personal narratives relating to class topics
• Literacy narrative

Reflections on learning & engagement
• Self-reflective essay
Paper Supplement or Replacement?


    Consider: why do we ask students to write
    papers in the first place?

      • what do we want students to learn?
      • can that be learned through a digital
        storytelling project instead of a traditional
        paper?

Learning Benefits
Main Benefit to Students

Engagement!

Projects have real and lasting value
• continue to work on projects even beyond
  semester
Real audiences and purposes
• friends, family, prospective employers
• service learning partners
Authenticity

Digital Storytelling allows students to
   work on authentic assignments
   develop their personal and academic voice
   represent knowledge to a community of learners
   receive situated feedback from their peers.
Due to their affective involvement with this
process and the novelty effect of the medium,
students are more engaged than in traditional
assignments.


                               (Oppermann and Coventry, 2011)
Critical Analysis


We already teach students to critically analyze the
digital media they regularly consume


But the act of composing in digital genres gives them
greater insight into the rhetorical strategies at work in
these genres
Writing Skills

Being asked to communicate in the “new
language” of multimedia brings students a greater
awareness of the component parts of traditional
writing.
Digital storytelling helps students develop a
stronger voice and helps students more accurately
and firmly place themselves in relationship to the
arguments of others.


                   (Oppermann and Coventry, 2011)
Writing as a Process


Makes clear the value of approaching all acts of
communication as a process


Can’t produce a rhetorically powerful digital
storytelling project the night before!


Requires planning, research, collaboration, problem-
solving, drafting, feedback, revising
Digital Literacy Skills



Helps students identify deficiencies in digital literacy skills
and remedy them while working on a meaningful project


Also helps deepen their appreciation for the rhetorical
power of multimodal communication
What about drawbacks?

  Fairly Easy to Address          Less Easy, but Doable
 Privacy                      Intellectual honesty
                                  (copyright, plagiarism)
 Access to tools and
   equipment                   Student resistance

 Technology as potential      Assignment design in light
   distraction                    of articulated criteria

 Availability of tech           Assessment
   support
Approaches to Digital   
Storytelling
Common Approaches

 photo essay       mini-documentary

 audio essay       short film

 comic strip       skit

 animation         remix
   Xtranormal          assembled with “reusable”
                         rather than original
   Go Animate           content
Animation made with GoAnimate
Remix made with footage from archive.org
Portion of a comic book made with Comic Life
A kinetic typography personal narrative

Getting Started
Overview of Composing Process

1. Brainstorm Topics      5. Apply Effects

2. Gather Assets          6. Export Rough Cut*

3. Build Storyboard*      7. Revise &Polish

4. Assemble Assets        8. Export & Share*


                       * Get Feedback (recommended)
For more info…

 For a longer version of this presentation, as
well as other materials on digital storytelling,
                 please visit:
http://digitalwriting101.net/content/tag/digital-storytelling/

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Brief Intro to Digital Storytelling

  • 1.  Digital Storytelling Digital Composition Sampler Presentation March 21, 2012 Amy Goodloe Digital Composition Coordinator Program for Writing and Rhetoric, CU Boulder
  • 2. Preface  What follows is a very brief version of my COLTT presentation on digital storytelling, which I created to deliver at a Digital Composition Sampler presentation for PWR faculty on March 21, 2012.  Most of what I cut out of this version focuses on the process of composing digital stories, as that’s more relevant to those who are ready to begin composing their own. I also removed the playable video clips that serve as examples of different types of digital storytelling because they can’t be uploaded to SlideShare.  If you’re interested in working on your own digital storytelling project, please consider participating in the week-long workshop I’ll be leading this summer. Contact me for more info!
  • 3. Screen shot from a student’s digital storytelling project
  • 4. Overview Define digital storytelling Review its many uses in civic and educational contexts Identify benefits to faculty and students Illustrate approaches and process
  • 5.  What is Digital Storytelling?
  • 6. "Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire, to the silver screen, and now the computer screen." (Leslie Rule 2009)
  • 7. Stories can be...  imaginative  educational  fiction, comics, TV  documentaries shows, movies  persuasive  informational  call to action,  histories, political, activism biographies  and more...
  • 8. We like stories because... They hold our attention • John Medina’s Brain Rule #4: “We don’t pay attention to boring things” They move us • Stories are often more engaging than other kinds of information
  • 9. What makes a story “digital”? composed with multiple forms of digital media:  photos  sound effects  graphics  audio narration  video  music  animation  text
  • 10. What makes a story “digital”? viewable only on digital devices • computers, tablets, smartphones • typically video or presentation shareable across online social networks • easily distributed to friends and family • potential for global audience
  • 11. What makes it “digital storytelling”? The phrase means more than the sum of its parts Just because it’s digital and tells a story, that doesn’t make it “digital storytelling”
  • 12. These are digital storytelling projects photo essay documenting an immigrant’s adjustment to American life video reflection on overcoming a learning disability multimedia presentation on the slippery nature of gender identity
  • 13. These are not CNN story on the “Sissy Boy Experiment” 20/20 segment on identity theft History Channel show on the Roaring 20’s
  • 14. Digital Storytelling is Grassroots • Amateurs using consumer-end tools • Purpose is to explore, enlighten, move, or persuade, not to sell • Often focuses on personal growth or social change • Enables us to move from being consumers of digital content to producers
  • 15.  Who’s Using Digital Storytelling?
  • 16.  Public Health  Advocacy Groups  Sustainability  Social Services  Diversity  Community Organizations  Social welfare  Business  K-12 Schools  Local Governments  Colleges & Universities  Museums and Libraries
  • 22. Digital Storytelling in Education  All levels  K-12 schools  undergraduate and graduate classes  research projects  student services  Across all disciplines  Composed by students, faculty, and staff  For a variety of audiences and purposes
  • 23. Potential Uses by Faculty Convey course material using a wider array of communication tools than text alone Share research insights with broader audience Create your own to serve as an example of the kind of project you’d like students to develop
  • 24. Topics for Faculty Stories Memories of: • Learning to read and write (and study) • Navigating a computer for the first time • What led you into your field of study An event that was: • Embarrassing but educational • Perspective-shifting or motivating • Particularly relevant to a concept in your discipline
  • 25. Potential Uses by Students Research projects • Historical: using archival footage • Contemporary: using footage captured by students or from fair use sources Visual argument • Persuade through multiple modalities Critiques • “Talk back” to pop culture through creative remix
  • 26. Potential Uses by Students Service learning projects • Raising awareness about social issues or communities • Encouraging action on behalf of organizations Personal narratives relating to class topics • Literacy narrative Reflections on learning & engagement • Self-reflective essay
  • 27. Paper Supplement or Replacement? Consider: why do we ask students to write papers in the first place? • what do we want students to learn? • can that be learned through a digital storytelling project instead of a traditional paper?
  • 29. Main Benefit to Students Engagement! Projects have real and lasting value • continue to work on projects even beyond semester Real audiences and purposes • friends, family, prospective employers • service learning partners
  • 30. Authenticity Digital Storytelling allows students to  work on authentic assignments  develop their personal and academic voice  represent knowledge to a community of learners  receive situated feedback from their peers. Due to their affective involvement with this process and the novelty effect of the medium, students are more engaged than in traditional assignments. (Oppermann and Coventry, 2011)
  • 31. Critical Analysis We already teach students to critically analyze the digital media they regularly consume But the act of composing in digital genres gives them greater insight into the rhetorical strategies at work in these genres
  • 32. Writing Skills Being asked to communicate in the “new language” of multimedia brings students a greater awareness of the component parts of traditional writing. Digital storytelling helps students develop a stronger voice and helps students more accurately and firmly place themselves in relationship to the arguments of others. (Oppermann and Coventry, 2011)
  • 33. Writing as a Process Makes clear the value of approaching all acts of communication as a process Can’t produce a rhetorically powerful digital storytelling project the night before! Requires planning, research, collaboration, problem- solving, drafting, feedback, revising
  • 34. Digital Literacy Skills Helps students identify deficiencies in digital literacy skills and remedy them while working on a meaningful project Also helps deepen their appreciation for the rhetorical power of multimodal communication
  • 35. What about drawbacks? Fairly Easy to Address Less Easy, but Doable  Privacy  Intellectual honesty (copyright, plagiarism)  Access to tools and equipment  Student resistance  Technology as potential  Assignment design in light distraction of articulated criteria  Availability of tech  Assessment support
  • 36. Approaches to Digital  Storytelling
  • 37. Common Approaches  photo essay  mini-documentary  audio essay  short film  comic strip  skit  animation  remix  Xtranormal  assembled with “reusable” rather than original  Go Animate content
  • 38. Animation made with GoAnimate
  • 39. Remix made with footage from archive.org
  • 40. Portion of a comic book made with Comic Life
  • 41. A kinetic typography personal narrative
  • 43. Overview of Composing Process 1. Brainstorm Topics 5. Apply Effects 2. Gather Assets 6. Export Rough Cut* 3. Build Storyboard* 7. Revise &Polish 4. Assemble Assets 8. Export & Share* * Get Feedback (recommended)
  • 44. For more info… For a longer version of this presentation, as well as other materials on digital storytelling, please visit: http://digitalwriting101.net/content/tag/digital-storytelling/

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  1. Instructor with PWR since 1999; Digital Composition coordinator since 2010First tried digital storytelling several years ago, in WRTG 3020 (personal narrative, apply gender theory to experience)Student wanted to put photos in her essay; I suggested she put them in iMovie and record her story as a soundtrackShort selection from her project follows…
  2. Class response to the student’s project was notable; much more engaged than with a written essayImpressive engagement on her part; story really evolved into something better; I was hooked! (didn’t know it was “dig story”)TECHNIQUE IMPROVEMENTS I would now recommend:Better use of the Ken Burns effect (no faces disappearing; slower; varied directions)Slow down the transitionsMore natural style of delivery
  3. Should be here no later than 12:10
  4. Leslie Rule, Digital storytelling association, 2009Conveying ideas or values using a narrative frameworkancient and intuitive human practicehow we make sense of the worldGrounding ideas in everyday lived experience rather than abstractionskey players are people, not ideasdesire to understand behavior and find coherence and meaning drive story forwardPAUSE a few beats after each main point
  5. Move quickly
  6. “Moving us” – persuasive appeal to pathos (emotion and imagination)Appeal to the “whole person”
  7. MIGHT ALSO BE: interactive and/or collaborativeno print analogueAudibleaudiobooks not “digital stories” b/c not composed with digital media
  8. WHY NOT? Stories published by CNN and other major news outlets are: produced by teams of professionals with expensive equipment and advanced media editing skillsdesigned to avoid potential conflicts of interest with advertisers and other stakeholdersin other words, not made by “regular people” with everyday equipment
  9. WE’VE ALWAYS KNOWN that multimedia messages are rhetorically powerfulBut most of us lacked access to the tools to produce them as well as the means to distribute themUNTIL NOW…Basic video, audio, and image editing apps come standard on all computers (also available for free online)New web-based tools emerge regularlySocial networking sites provide publishing platforms and distribution channels
  10. Give you an idea of how widespread it has become
  11. BUSINESS: customer relations, improving employee life, etc.COMMUNITY: digital stories to raise awareness about social issues, like homelessness, poverty, domestic abuse, etc. (* hugely valuable to community projects)DESIGN: proposal to use digital storytelling to raise awareness about principles of Universal Design, making web texts and multimedia accessible to people with disabilities
  12. About Patient Voice:- founded by “social entrepreneurs” to tell the “unwritten and unspoken stories of ordinary people”as a way to helphealth care professionals better understand patients and make more compassionate decisionshttp://www.patientvoices.org.uk/VISUAL EFFECTS: using panning and zooming on photos of hospital hallway (doesn’t even have to be the actual place)at moment of dramatic tension: zooming stops and image turns grayscaletransitions to photos with people gives feeling of movement and activity, without videoSTORYTELLING TECHNIQUES: establishes a moodsets the sceneintroduces a conflictphoto of field (“field of medicine”)
  13. Site serves as a supplementto a Ken Burns documentary called The War, about WW 2Stories created by U. of Houston grad students and by individuals directly impacted by war. (Visitors invited to share stories too.)http://thewar.coe.uh.edu/
  14. Digital storytelling project about migrant subcultures in Western AustraliaPurpose: “Provide community with insights into the experiences and stories of refugee and migrant communities”http://fairfieldstories.net/
  15. Will be leading a week long workshop on digital storytelling this summer, open to all facultyIf the following examples spark ideas, consider attending to work on your project!
  16. Incredibly popular in grade schools (these students will one day be ours)See esp. the International Festival of Student Media: amazing projects from students K-12 seeing what some of those kids produced really made me question the future of writing as we know it
  17. Potential to reach more students by communicating in different modalitiesCourse Material:Demonstrate an activityIllustrate a conceptPresent content in engaging wayLots of research supports the use of storytelling to improve learning - people most often remember what they learned in association with a story
  18. Topics for your own story: as example for studentsGood idea to try making your own before you ask students to do it, to see what’s involvedWill talk more about approaches and process in a bit
  19. MY STUDENTS: Gender literacyDigital literacy narrativeLiteracy narratives are a common assignment in English, writing, language arts, etc.Digital Archive of Literacy Narrativeshttp://daln.osu.edu/
  20. HUGELY popular among a variety of civic engagement groups, including sustainability, diversity, civic engagement, and more…“Concept in 60 seconds”Narrative version of a “public service announcement”
  21. Sometimes the answer is noSustained inquiry or argument across multiple pages has educational valuePerhaps we should reserve paper assignments for the kinds of learning they’re best suited tomight reduce paper burnout (and grading burnout!)
  22. After studying the use of digital storytelling in college classes over a period of five years, Matthias Oppermann and Michael Coventry found that: (read quote)Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archivehttps://commons.georgetown.edu/projects/digitalstories/https://commons.georgetown.edu/projects/digitalstories/social-pedagogy/
  23. We teach students to critically analyze the multimedia messages they viewBut asking them to compose these messages leads to a much deeper understanding of their rhetorical functionhow the elements of digital media messages work together to persuade, using appeals to logic, evidence, and emotionhow producers of digital media attempt to establish their credibilityEnabling students to become producers, not just consumers
  24. They also found that: (read quote)EXAMPLE of “awareness of component parts”:article by professor whose students spent 20 minutes debating the rhetorical value of a particular transition in a video project - students often have intuitive understanding of the value of transitions in video projects - when we point out what they’re doing with the video, students then say they finally “get” the point of using transitions in essayshttps://commons.georgetown.edu/projects/digitalstories/multimedia-distinctive/2/6/
  25. MY EXPERIENCE“writing as a process” is hard to teach, esp. the value of drafting, getting feedback, and revisingneed for process becomes very clear with these kinds of projectsBTW: the process of developing a digital story also involves a lot of good old fashioned paragraph-based writing
  26. But many don’t realize it, as they’ve been told they’re “digital natives”We owe it to students to help them develop writing skills of the future, not the writing skills of the pastToday, 3rd and 4th graders are producing mini-documentaries on civil rights leaders and famous authorsWhat kind of research projects will they expect to do in college?What kind of projects will employers expect all college graduates to be capable of producing?What is the future of writing?Don’t have research to back me up on this, only my own experienceBut I work closely with students on digital projects, and they often confess how little they know -every semester, I have at least one student who didn’t know she could copy text from one app and paste it into another one - most have never done anything more than check Facebook, do email, and look up a few things on GoogleRegardless of the digital skills they may have learned in high school, by the time they get to my class, as juniors and seniors, - they’ve been thoroughly conditioned to the demands of old school print literacyMultimodal: a combination text, images, and sound designed to have emotional and intellectual impactStudents know that multiple modes convey meaning, not just textJohn Medina’s Rule #10: “Vision trumps all other senses.”Ira Glass might say hearing is a close secondDigital storytelling projects validate a multimodal approach to communicationAge of print: printed text is easiest to produce and distribute (multimedia is for pros only)Digital age: relatively easy and inexpensive to produce and distribute text, audio, images, and video
  27. PRIVACY: keep private or password protected; use identity obscuring effectsACCESS: all tools are now available pre-installed on computers or for free on webDISTRACTION: it is already; at least now we’re asking them to make something meaningful with itTECH SUPPORT: you’re the expert in the content and learning goals, not the software. know who to call!PLAGIARISM: you do have to go over copyright and fair use issues, esp. for projects that will be posted onlineRESISTANCE: Students may grumble at first, but you’ll be surprised by what they come up withASSESSMENT: figure out what skills you want to reinforce through a DS project before you assign it and make that clear to students throughout
  28. All of these approaches can be taken with the free software that comes on most computers or that’s free onlineMacs have the iLife suite; Windows have MovieMakerCan also use PowerPoint, Prezi, animation apps, and lots of other toolsSee: 50 ways to tell a story (using free Web 2.0 tools)http://50ways.wikispaces.com
  29. ANIMATION – GoAnimatehttp://gendersex.net/blog/archives/manly-men-can-bake-their-cakes/
  30. REMIX: ofarchivalfootageor media“Concept in 60 Seconds” ideaMine is on the Multimodality of Genderhttp://vimeo.com/24706473
  31. COMIC STRIP(these are just 2 pages from a longer “graphic short story” – short version of Graphic novel)
  32. http://gendersex.net/blog/archives/the-rush-a-digital-poem/
  33. More samples:http://gendersex.net/blog/archives/the-social-construction-of-kennady-nickell/