1. Digital Storytelling
March 27, 2012

2. OTF Connects
Brenda Sherry brendasherry.com
Peter Skillen www.peterskillen.org

3. What is a Digital Story?
• A short, first person, video-
narrative created by combining
recorded voice, still and moving
images, and music and other
sounds

4. Pre-Production
•
deconstruction
what is digital storytelling?
• setting a criteria and finding story ideas
• finding audio and visual resources
Production
• planning, storyboarding and collecting visuals
• work time: creating audio and putting media together
construction
Post-Production
• rough cuts
• final edits
• celebrating our stories
• thinking about assessment/reflection

5. Kinds of Digital Stories
1. Teach Me Something
‣ an instructional or how-to story
2. Tell Me A Story
‣ tell a story about someone special, your school,
or your community
3. Environmental Concerns and Social Issues
‣ share environmental concerns and social issues
to raise awareness and promote social action

6. What makes a powerful
digital story?
Let’s watch some....and discuss

7. Hidden
http://theconstructionzone.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/hidden-a-project-that-worked/
The Recycling Can and the Garbage Can http://vimeo.com/24284978
No Easy Cruise by Janice Robertson http://vimeo.com/27179092
A Special Lady by Christina Rzazewski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjGXzR5Abs
How to Animate a Rolling Ball http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbLAreElNI
The Fox and the Owl by Marty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN8aAvqIbhg
The Silent Hero by Emily Cowley http://vimeo.com/39284130
Summer All The Time http://vimeo.com/24285443
Not a Fairy Tale http://vimeo.com/24296379

8. Setting criteria...
In small groups discuss the DS you’ve just watched and
brainstorm a list of things you notice.
What makes a great Digital Story?
Come up with 4 - 5 criteria for an effective DS.

9. Criteria for an effective DS
•emotional connection
•good story
•music, images, narrative, should all flow
•pacing is appropriate
•audience appeal
•message is clear

10. 7 Elements of Digital Stories
• Audience
• Purpose
• Emotional/Meaningful Content
• Voice
• Technology
• Connections
Great help for teachers
• Economy
• Pacing

11. Curriculum
Elementary
Media Literacy/Language Arts:
•identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used
to create meaning;
•create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions,
and techniques,
•reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the
strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts;
Writing/Language Arts:
•generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
•draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms
and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
Oral Language/Language Arts:
•use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of
purposes;
Depending upon topics/themes for your grade/subject area, also check:
•Drama
•Social Studies/History/Geography

12. Curriculum Expectations

13. Curriculum Expectations
English
ENG3U WRITING
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
•Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information
to write for an intended purpose and audience;
•Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of
literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose
and audience;
•Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and
strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and
present their work effectively;
•Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas
for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the
writing process.

14. So where do we begin?
Bernajean Porter :http://www.digitales.us/resources/seven_steps.php#

15. Finding our stories
• a most embarrassing moment
• a thunderstorm you remember
• a special person in your life
• a unexpected happening on a vacation
• childhood mythology
• an ‘aha’ moment in your first years of teaching
• the unexplained...???

16. Resources
• Brenda Sherry http://tech2learn.wikispaces.com
• Peter Skillen
http://www.youthbet.net/photovoice/pages/ymca-academy.php
• Kent Manning http://digitalstory.ca
• Bernajean Porter http://Digitales.us
• David Brear http://www.members.shaw.ca/dbrear/dst.html
• Jason Ohler http://www.jasonohler.com
• Adobe Youth Voices http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/