1. Digital Storytelling -
Students as Historians
Sari Halavaara & Juha-Pekka Lehtonen
Otaniemi Upper Secondary School, Espoo

2. Otaniemi
Upper Secondary
School

3. Sari Halavaara, MA, ADE
Teaching since 1984
History, Social studies
Entrepreneurship
Currently at Otaniemi Upper Secondary School
sari.halavaara@opetus.espoo.fi
Awards: History teacher of the year 2012
Juha-Pekka Lehtonen, MA, ADE
Teaching since 1988
History, Social studies
Entrepreneurship
Currently at Otaniemi Upper Secondary School
juha-pekka.lehtonen@espoo.fi
Awards: History teacher of the year 2012, ICT Educator 2016
Our presentations: https://www.slideshare.net/juhapekkalehtonen5

4. History – How to tell a
good story

5. • personal narratives.
• stories that inform or
instruct
• historical
digital stories
DST - genres
An old man sits by a fire telling a story to a group of adults and children. Process print after H. Thompson. -
Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom - CC BY.
https://www.europeana.eu/item/9200579/wreuwunm

9. Digital family histories
Course work in mandatory Finnish history course
Story of my family during war years 1939 - 45
Atte
Sara

11. How to tell the story?

12. Work process
Presenting
Planning
Producing

15. Gathering and evaluating sources
Pictures
Interviews Books
Voices
Objects
Films
Music
Search engines
Experts

16. 16

17. Antti
Sources
• Family archives
• SA-kuvat (sa-kuva.fi)
• Finna.fi

18. Storyboard

19. Applications for digital storytelling
• Adobe Express
• iMovie
• Windows Video editor
• Thinglink
Low threshold technology

20. Copyrights

21. How to assess and
evaluate digital content?

22. Evaluation
Digital storytelling in the
classroom:
www.tech4learning.com
https://rubric-maker.com/

23. Challenges
Teacher
• Time for personal guidance
• Teacher working on limits
of his/her competence
Student
• Sharing and researching
sensitive issues
• Stepping out of their
comfort zone

24. It is not easy, but …
it’s worth it.
• Encourages creativity
• Suits different abilities
• Empowers learners
• Intergenerational exchange
• Historical empathy

25. Teaching with EUROPEANA
The Belle Époque

26. Co-operation between schools
and museums