Digital Storytelling in the L2 Composition Classroom Ohio TESOL October 30, 2009

1. Digital Storytelling in the L2 Composition Classroom Joel Bloch The Ohio State University 1

2. What is a Digital Story Personal Story Images + Text + Music? 2

3. 3 New Technologies, Old Questions New Kinds of Users New kinds of jobs New kinds of literacies

4. 4 Promote new forms of perception? Promote deeper forms of learning? Promote new relationships with audience?

5. The Uses of Digital Story Telling K-12 Curriculum University Curriculum School/University Identity Community Projects Writing Instruction 5

6. Story Types 6

7. Rhetorical Purposes 7

8. Center for Digital Storytelling Digital Stories at Ohio State 8

9. Why I am Interested in Digital Stories in the L2 composition classroom 9

10. The relationship between oral and written speech 10

11. Gaining a sense of identity in writing 11

12. The development of multimedia forms of literacy 12

13. 13 Integrating elements of various forms of digital literacy Movie maker Podcasting Visual literacy Texts

14. 14 Remix

15. Goals for the use of Digital Stories Help develop rhetorical skills for academic writing Help understand the nature of digital literacy Remix text, images, audio Take advantage of an alternative, more oral form of academic writing Have a little more fun? 15

16. Elements of the Writing Process Invention Creation Revision Editing 16 Publishing

17. Integrating Music with Text/images Images  Text Text  Images Images music Text 17

18. Integrating Images and text 18

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20. Social Process of Writing Collaboration through story groups Publishing and Sharing 20

22. Collaborating with others to develop their work

23. Being able to evaluate own work

24. Gaining a sense of identity in one’s work. 21

25. 22 Transferability???

26. Thinking about Technologies 23

28. The concept of fair use

29. The role of open source and Creative Commons24

30. Assessment How do we evaluate student digital stories? How does digital story telling fit into our overall writing curriculum? 25

31. New Forms of Literacy Divides A new kind of digital divide ten years from now will separate those who can use these new media to band together from those who don’t. - Howard Rheingold (2003). 26

33. Can the rhetorical strategies be transferred from digital story telling to other forms of writing?

34. What does digital story telling tell us about digital literacy?

35. Can digital story telling be taught collaboratively?27

36. Some Useful Resources Ed Tech Talk Digital Storytelling Tips and Resources Gail Matthews-DeNatale, 28