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Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop
Summer 2007
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About Digital Storytelling...
For the past few years, Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn have been team teaching a Digital Storytelling class at Scottsdale community college, as well as internationally in New Zealand and Australia. For more, see A Story About Teaching Digital Storytelling at Scottsdale Community College in the Spring 2004 mcli Forum.
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Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop (Summer 2007)
(For residential faculty, this event has been pre-approved for 34 clock hours of non-academic advancement)
| Sample Stories | | "Magnetic Attraction" | by Carol Bolton
(Phoenix College)
a participant in the May 2006 LearnShop
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Agenda
Prior to the first meeting, there will be: a letter sent to each participant with reading assignments, a web-site to visit, an assignment to write a 250 word story and locate 12 - 20 objects/images which relate to their story. Each participant will be asked to bring all this to the first day of the workshop.
Monday
- What is story? (45 minutes)
Introduction to workshop-12 minute DVD and discussion to follow. How do we define story?
- Object exercise (1 hour 30 minutes)
Everyone will be asked to tell a story using an object in their possession.
- Power of Story (30 minutes)
Show 12 minute video entitled "The Power of Story"/Interviews with storytellers. Discuss how this relates to us and our stories.
- Elements of Story (30 minutes)
Discussion of handout- 7 elements of story
- Project plans (45 minutes)
Free association writing/make a mini-book activity
- Lunch Break (1 hour)
- Teaching Applications/Power of Connection (1 hour 30 minutes)
Discussion/examples of applications of digital storytelling in various disciplines. (10 minute DVD digital story on India; 15 minute DVD digital story Australia; 30 minute video- Full Circle-Storytelling on the Road)
Discussion of how storytelling crosses cultural boundaries.
- Copyright Laws discussion (30 minutes)
Handout and explanation of copyright laws. What types of music and images can be used in your stories.
- Feedback (30 minutes)
Guidelines for offering feedback in this workshop. Instructions as to how to ask for feedback and how to offer appropriate feedback.
- Begin Process of Reading stories and offering feedback (1 hour 30 minutes)
Tuesday
- Final story-complete the feedback session in groups (3 hours)
- Storyboarding (1 hour)
Demonstrate 2 different storyboarding techniques-Each particiant works on their storyboard
- Lunch (1 hour)
- Storyboarding-scanning images (3 hours)
- Image list (final hour), each participant makes a list of images still needed for their story
- Sound list (final hour), identify music, sounds needed.
Wednesday
- Record Voice Over
It takes 30 minutes per participant (12 participants) to record 3 versions of the story, burn a CD and transfer the voice over to the computer. While the voice overs are being recorded, the other participants will continue to scan and import images into iMovie.
Thursday
- Preparation and digitization of materials
- Production Work
- Editing and Production
Friday
- Final edit
- Archiving CD, DVD, miniDV, and or VHS (3 hours)
- Show of Digital Stories (1 hour)
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