Digital+Storytelling

=Digital Storytelling= Respond to the questions below. You may add to and/or edit others' responses.

How does digital storytelling benefit students?
Allows for student creativity and ownership of their work. Allows students to share their work with their peers, teachers, parents and schools Provides for different modalities for students to express their ideas. Provides for different learning styles and instructional levels.

What kinds of instructional activities lend themselves to student productions?
biographies, research timelines, content review, storytelling, student booktalks personal naratives, science projects that describe a process or cycle, any activity in which the student describes a process or explains the meaning of something, like The Pledge of Alligiance

What digital storytelling tools do you use with students, and why?
photostory - easy, adds music, narrate by slide webblender - creates a webpage that can easily be shared with public, easy for students to use, insert video moviemaker - insert video

What kinds of challenges (technical or logistical) have you encountered when using digital storytelling tools?
Finding high resolution pictures that aren't blurry when shown. Words getting cut off in WebBlender. Making sure all files for one project are bundled together properly for a project to work. Finding good audio levels. hardware issues - need better microphones for student use Having students talk at the proper volume. Making sure that you have a quiet space for recording narration.

What tips would you provide to a teacher using digital storytelling tools for the first time?
Teacher practice with software before working with students. Create sample projects to model to students. Create a script and practice reading. Doing project in steps: research, then put research onto a storyboard, pick out pics/videos ahead of time & then assemble the project last.

What elements do you look for when evaluating student productions?
Content accuracy, student participation, proper grammar and sentence structure. Creativity, visual appeal, grabs the attention of the viewer

Share examples of effective digital storytelling activities that you have completed with students.
Third grade famous person/holiday review PhotoStories with images and recorded sentences. Moonphases with MovieMaker. Animal reports on WebBlender Life Cycles with claymation