Digital+Storytelling-Educational+Guidance

From the **University of Houston: The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling** []
 * Digital Storytelling: Educational Guidance **
 * __[[image:najariantechlit/digital-storytelling.jpg width="269" height="333" align="left"]]What are the educational goals and objectives? __**

**Goals for teachers:** -Create a digital story for use as an anticipatory set or hook for a lesson; -Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit; -Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view.

-Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content; -Develop communication skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience; -Increase their computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.
 * Goals for students: **

-Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media; -Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms; -Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own; -Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others; -Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives.
 * Objectives of Digital Storytelling: **

The University of Houston: The Educational Uses of Digital Storytellinghas a step-by-step approach to creating a digital story:
 * __How to create a digital story in the classroom? __**
 * 1) Choose a topic, Write a Script
 * 2) Collect Resources
 * 3) Select Content, Develop a Storyboard
 * 4) Import, Record, Finalize
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students can use a Storyboard when creating their digital story. It helps students plan their narration, images, and music. A storyboard <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">can be used during the steps of pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Storyboard Templates can be found in: University of Houston Template ;<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Hall Davidson Template, Jason Ohler Template
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How to __****__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> begin the writing process? __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**What technological tools or software can students use to create the digital story?**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Visit the **Digital Storytelling: Software and Tools** for the tools that students can use.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assessment: The site also offers a <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">sample rubric <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">that can be used to evaluate the students' work.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How to assess students' work? __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Guidance for teachers considering to use digital storytelling in their classroom found in **How to Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom** by Jennifer New <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [|www.edutopia.org/digital-storytelling-classroom]
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Guidance to beginner teachers __**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Learn from what you watch. Teachers should use films that they have watched as models and as ideas for their own movies. Students can learn to dissect the films and can learn effective storytelling techniques.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">See technology as a storytelling tool, not as a teaching goal. The two teachers explain that teaching about technology should not be sole focus of the curriculum, as most of the programs are easy to use.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Allow your students to push you (and lead you). Teachers should not be afraid if their students learn to use technology quicker than they do. Students can teach each other, and they can work on deciding what role they will have in making the digital storytelling.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Learn by trial and error. There might be some problems, yet teachers should find resources to find the answers. They cite <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Creative Cow] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> as a place to find information on using production and post production software and hardware.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Give your students freedom, but hold them accountable. Some students will not know how to respond to having the freedom to work on creative products, so the teacher should supervise so that they complete their projects. Students should set up a "work contract" so that they have a schedule of production.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Consider yourself the executive producer. The teacher should be "the arbiter of good taste."
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Don't forget to celebrate your students' work. Students' work should be presented as they will feel inspired and will work hard in their final product.