Digital+Storytelling

//We are our stories. // // We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves. // //That has always been true. // //But personal narrative has become more prevalent, and perhaps more urgent, in a time of abundance, // //when many of us are freer to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves and our purpose. //

Daniel H. Pink  A Whole New Mind
 * Digital Storytelling**

//What is it?// //"Multimedia Sonnets from the people"// They are usually short (less than five minutes) narratives that describe a concept or perspective with images, sound, video, text and speech. Daniel Meadows

"Digital storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music, and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice" (Porter as cited in Salpeter, 2005,). Digital Storytelling has evolved since the early 1990's when digital tools became more accessible and easier to use by the general public. Early adopters of this form of communication include Daniel Meadows, and Dana Atchley.

"The process of digital story telling permits students to recapture creativity, develop it, intensify it, apply it extend it…" David Jakes www.jakesonline.org/dstory
 * Why tell stories?**

• Engage multiple learning styles through the use of a variety of digital tools to represent concepts • Harness the power of social networks by allowing students to present ideas to a greater audience
 * Why should teachers use digital storytelling with their students?**

• Help students develop skills to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content. • Support your students' communications skills giving them opportunities ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience. •Increase computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.

I teach Math and/or Science. Why would I utilize digital storytelling as a instructional tool?


 * Digital Storytelling In Science**

Let Student Voices Be Heard (look for the post, Challenge Based Videos) Young Scientist Challenge


 * Digital Storytelling In Mathematics**

[|Houston University-] Check out the "The Pythagorean Theorem" story


 * Digital Storytelling in Social Studies**

Houston University Concordia University


 * Other Ways Digital Storytelling Is Used**

In Business Public Health Projects BBC We Tell Stories- 6 Stories, 6 Weeks So Cool (Beware...this one is so good you will miss the next deadline in your life)


 * Resources and Tools**

Fifty Tools to create a digital story. Allan Levine Stories Matter Free program available for Concordia University Grazing on Digital Storytelling Comprehensive Resource More examples of Digital Storytelling- David Jakes

References: Porter, B. (2008) International Society for Education: Interview with Bernajean Porter. Retrieved November 10, 2009 from [] Salpeter, J. (2005) Telling Tales with Technology. Technology and Learning 7(18). ERIC document reproduction service No. EJ710824. Hirtz, Sandy http://community.bccampus.ca/expo?go=1403977