Digital+Storytelling+-+Viterbo

Visit the four sites below and jot down key ideas in your journal in preparation for discussion. Click on your name to access your page:
Wanda Austin Candace Covington Nikole Lee Kimberly Meier Annette Perry Wendy Tucker


 * What are your thoughts on the growing dominance of the image in reading and writing?
 * How will it shape what we know and how we know it?
 * What are the implications for us in a 21st century curriculum?


 * 1) **Writing in the 21st Century: NCTE Guidelines**:Don't design your digital storytelling lesson plan without visiting this site. Read the article by NCTE Past President, Kathleen Blake Yancey
 * 2) **Orchestrating the Media Collage**An article by Jason Ohler which discusses the skills we need to teach students to be literate in this digital age, among them the ability of effective storytelling.
 * 3) **Art, Image, Word**: from **Digital Is**, National Writing Project - Check out the resources in the collection
 * 4) **Art, The Fourth R:** by Jason Ohler (Be sure to scroll down past all the translations to the article
 * 5) **The rise of the image the fall of the word**The changing nature of literacy

Activity 2

 * 1) Click Reading Across a Dozen Literacies, read the introduction and focus particularly on the sections devoted to artistic and visual literacy. Be sure to follow the links exploring the nature and power of these two literacies today.
 * 2) Then click on your page and reflect on insights you have gained.
 * 3) Make a list of criteria you would use in selecting an image to include in a digital story.

Wanda Austin Candace Covington Nikole Lee Kimberly Meier Annette Perry Wendy Tucker

Activity 3: Use image and text to communicate a message.
Find a powerful image on the Internet (or a photograph that you have taken) and combine it with limited powerful text (5 – 15 words) to communicate a message of strong impact to an audience. You can do this in a word processor, Publisher, Inspiration or PowerPoint slide. We will present to class. Keep in mind your **criteria** for choosing the image.

Activity 4: Create a lesson around an image.
==Choose a lesson you teach as part of a larger unit that would be significantly enhanced by using an image. It might be a dramatic image in which the class would focus on the interpretation or discussion of a single powerful image related to the purpose of your study, an image which you select or they select. It may be one to three images with limited text intended to communicate to a specific audience or a specific purpose. The lesson can center around your using an image or involve students using an image. Check out Jamie McKenzie's examples.==

**Five Kinds Of Slam Dunk Lessons**"How can teachers build brief lessons with digital resources that inspire a high level of engagement while challenging students to interpret, analyze, synthesize and evaluate?" Jamie McKenzie This site contains a slam dunk lesson of the **Dramatic Image** and the **Persuasive Image.**

=Resources for Finding Creative Commons Images Online:=

There are several online tools that make searching Creative Commons Flickr photos less time consuming.
Here are a couple of quick options: Other sources of Creative Commons images include:
 * 1) Compfight
 * 2) FlickrCC
 * 3) Wylio.com
 * 1) Wikimedia Commons
 * 2) Search by Creative Commons

Activity 5: Evaluate digital stories
Preview digital stories from the sites in the Inspiration document below, Using the 7 element rubric in your syllabus evaluate digital stories **according to directions given in class.** If you have Inspiration, click on this link: == Or Google **"digital story"** to find thousands of examples. ==
 * **Digitales Storykeepers' Gallery**
 * **The Center for Digital Storytelling**
 * **The Educational uses of Digital Storytelling**
 * ****Creative Narration** **

Stories We Like
Use to help you link it to this page
 * [] Evaluation: 4/4/4/4/4/4/4 This story was particularly good, and it had a very strong message. The music created a very appropriate mood for the subject matter, there was a nice variety of photos, and I liked the use of diagonals in the photos themselves. I liked the use of panning in this piece and the pacing was very good. My only critique would be that the voice could have been a bit more clear. Kim Meier
 * My Mother's Socks Annette: I would definitely rate this video as excellent (4). This video shares memories of a family that was significantly close together. The pictures: black & white, clothing during a certain time period and up-to-date pictures. When speaking about mom, the zoomed in on her. The gray bare trees fading represented death. Cartoon to add laughter. Voice was smooth. Family picture after mom's death - white silhouette of mom included in the picture. Picture of bright white socks in drawer and then on the daughters feet. Message they wore white socks not to keep warm feet, but to warm their hearts. Critique: I would have liked to see more transitioning of the pictures.
 * Tarnished Wanda- I am a history buff and so I was intrigued by the title and the subject matter. The story is told from the perspective of the sword of Benedict Arnold. The story teller has a compelling voice and she drew me in. It was easy to listen to her tell the story. I loved the music. The music kept me entertained in drawn in to the story. I also learned more about Benedict Arnold and so I like it when I learn something new. I liked her use of the sword as the protagonist. The sword was also depicted in a clever way. If all was well the sword was held up high and if the situation was not good, the sword was low.
 * IT'S ALL IN A NAME CANDACE After looking at many digital stories, I came across this story about how what person hears can effect their development throughout their life. This person journeys through the difficulty of having dreams and being made fun of at an early age. She was also told by teachers what she wasn't. She never attempted the dream and finally after life's distresses she finds herself being called positive names that helped her to overcome her depression issues through the one thing she was told she was not. We must be careful how we address others, Teachers have the ability to set a child on a path to success or failure What a person hears effects the belief system..

Activity 6: Create a Lesson Plan around the use or creation of a digital story:
Create a lesson plan which introduces your students to digital storytelling and the 7 (or 10) elements, and/or to creating their own digital story Use your own lesson plan format or the one used by:

Journal Prompts :
Write a reflection on the following quotation: "If you don't have a good story to tell, you might as well save yourself the expensive digital bells and whistles and go back to your writing table" (Storytellers of the New Millenium). Click on your page and label it with today's date.
 * Saturday afternoon:**
 * Wanda Austin
 * Candace Covington
 * Nikole Lee
 * Kimberly Meier
 * Annette Perry

Web English Teacher on Digital Story Resources
==Digital Storytelling Finds It's Place in the Classroom== Practical and inspirational help from Tom Banaszewski, as you plan to bring digital storytelling into the classroom. Emphasis is on storytelling.

Art, Storytelling, Technology and Education
This master site provides easy access to the many art and storytelling materials available through jasonOhler.com.