The definition of “Digital Storytelling” has expanded over the last couple years.\u00a0 It used to refer almost entirely to projects from a first person point of view created in IMovie.\u00a0 These could be either simple skits and dialogues done with a camera or a series of still images with a soundtrack.\u00a0 IMovie has very simple functions for transitions and has an effect called the “Ken Burns effect” that adds motion to still images.\u00a0 The Center for Digital Storytelling is a good place to find examples.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.storycenter.org\/stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n Although IMovie is quite easy, Web 2.0 applications have entered this space as well to offer even easier alternatives.\u00a0 VoiceThread<\/a> is probably the most popular.\u00a0 Users can upload images and organize them into a slideshow.\u00a0 It’s also possible to record an audio track for each image in the show.\u00a0 Visitors to the voicethread can then leave voice comments as well.\u00a0 This is a good example from an English class in Brazil who created a voicethread about 5 of their most important cities then sent their presentation to a class in California for comments.<\/p>\n http:\/\/voicethread.com\/#q.b69307.i359512<\/a><\/p>\n Digital storytelling fits nicely with a learner centered language classroom as they are by their nature collaborative works that focus on the creator’s life and interests.\u00a0\u00a0 The technological skills required have also become very minimal.\u00a0 I’d be happy to show a class at Dickinson how to use either IMovie or Voicethread.\u00a0 An IMovie training would take most of a class hour depending on whether students would use still images or record with a video camera.\u00a0 A Voicethread tutorial would take 20 minutes or less with questions.<\/p>\n Although the stories are very easy to create, it’s still important to do some planning.\u00a0 Be clear about your expectations to the students.\u00a0 Provide them with examples to set expectations and to generate ideas.\u00a0 Let them see the grading rubric you’ll use for assessment.\u00a0 Finally, break the assignment up into parts to avoid having students spend a great deal of time on the assignment but finishing with a poor project.\u00a0 A common suggestion is to have students submit their project in three parts: a storyboard, a script, and finally the finished project in IMovie or on VoiceThread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The definition of “Digital Storytelling” has expanded over the last couple years.\u00a0 It used to refer almost entirely to projects from a first person point of view created in IMovie.\u00a0 These could be either simple skits and dialogues done with … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,44,45],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-imovie","tag-voicethread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}