Digital_Storytelling

Digital Storytelling
"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. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal expression. Every aspect of storytelling - structure, plot, character, pace, voice, timing and setting - has the potential to be artistically morphed into new communication forms using digital tools." Bernajean Porter

"storying around" by making lots of digital stories with digital media is not just playtime for kids and adults. Creating stories provides us with important opportunities to build and practice a number of specific 21st century skills as well as other types of learning people need in order to function in a knowledge society:
 * creativity and inventive thinking
 * multiple intelligences/learning styles
 * visual literacy
 * technical literacy
 * effective communication
 * teaming and collaboration
 * project management mentality
 * enduring understanding

Links:
[|Lesson plans for DS] [|Resources from Kenton, Ky] [|DS from U of Houston]

Book available to loan from Wendy: **DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories** EXCELLENT book with lots of ideas and resources for digital storytelling

FREE SOFTWARE for Digital Storytelling:

animoto.com - online tool to create digital story from still images. automatically creates transitions so students concentrate on order, titles, etc. Be sure to scroll down to EDUCATOR and click there to get an educator account.

PhotoStory3 from Microsoft - just put that into Google and download/install the free software. good resource site:[| www.windowsphotostory.com]

Stay Tuned for link to Discovery Education webinar on using their content in Digital Story with both Animoto and Photostory