Focus Question: How does digital storytelling support the teaching of media and digital literacy?
Readings
Lamb, A. (2011) Reading Redefined in a Transmedia Universe, Learning & Leading with Technology, 12-17
Activating your Understanding about Digital Storytelling
The Important BookTo develop an understanding of digital storytelling, we will first activate our prior knowledge of reading and writing in digital environments from the required readings for this week.
Annette Lamb explores the changes in reading environments in her article Reading Redefined for a Transmedia Universe. Reading is defined as "constructing meaning from symbols" and a book is a "published collection of pages or screens". She explores reading from e-books, interactive stories, reference databases, interactive fiction, hypertext, and transmedia. Reading in digital spaces becomes non-linear, participatory, readily available and connected to social contexts. |
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The important thing about digital storytelling is ....?
By the end of this session you will determine for yourself all the important elements of digital storytelling as it applies to your teaching practice. You will follow the pattern demonstrated in The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. You will create one slide in this collaborative Google Slides presentation.
Let's take a look at some basic tips for using collaborative Google Slides. You will contribute ONE SLIDE to a collaborative google presentation document as part of this activity. You can learn how to integrate Google Slides into your Google Classroom with this blog post written by Alice Keeler.
By the end of this session you will determine for yourself all the important elements of digital storytelling as it applies to your teaching practice. You will follow the pattern demonstrated in The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. You will create one slide in this collaborative Google Slides presentation.
Let's take a look at some basic tips for using collaborative Google Slides. You will contribute ONE SLIDE to a collaborative google presentation document as part of this activity. You can learn how to integrate Google Slides into your Google Classroom with this blog post written by Alice Keeler.
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Explorations into Digital Storytelling
You will apply the inquiry model of learning to an investigation into Digital Storytelling. You will work in a small collaborative group. Your group will be assigned one of the resources listed below to gather and organize information about digital storytelling. You will analyze and evaluate the MOST IMPORTANT information for it's application to the context of teaching in an elementary school. Collaboratively evaluate the essential information and synthesize conclusions. The group will present their 'most important things' using the MOST IMPORTANT BOOK collaborative Google Slide document. |
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling and the 7 elements of DS
- Bernajean Porter's work with Digitales and Storykeepers shares many resources related to teaching with digital storytelling in transmedia forums including the Seven Steps for Storymaking.
- Jason Ohler presents digital storytelling in the form of DAOW (Digital, Art, Oral, Written) of literacy, with many related resources and techniques for telling stories in digital mediums.
- ETMOOC - Digital Storytelling module developed by Alec Couros and a host of collaborators, including Alan Levine (originator of ds106), to explore topics relevant to educational technology. One relevant link includes this one on How to Tell a Story That Stands Out in a Digital Age.
- Edudemic, Teacher's Guide to Digital Storytelling.
- Edutopia, How to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom and The Power of Digital Storytelling
Select a spokesperson and prepare to communicate your findings.
Why Digital Storytelling?
Applications to Media and Digital Literacy in the Classroom
Literate learners in today's classrooms are required to be meaning makers, code users, text users and text analyzers. Media and digital literacies apply to each of these skills. Writing digital stories provides opportunities for students to engage in each of these four literacies in a variety of traditional and digital methods.
Explore more - from the eWorkshop Online Teaching Resource site - about media literacy and how digital story production can address curriculum expectations in a variety of cross curricular ways.
Connect these literacy skills to those found on the media literacy triangle.
What are common skills? what skills are missing?
Literate learners in today's classrooms are required to be meaning makers, code users, text users and text analyzers. Media and digital literacies apply to each of these skills. Writing digital stories provides opportunities for students to engage in each of these four literacies in a variety of traditional and digital methods.
Explore more - from the eWorkshop Online Teaching Resource site - about media literacy and how digital story production can address curriculum expectations in a variety of cross curricular ways.
Connect these literacy skills to those found on the media literacy triangle.
What are common skills? what skills are missing?
The Writing Process - as you blog, as you think about digital storytelling
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Access some FREE writing process posters here.
Also for consideration are the writing traits (6+1) - these include ideas, organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice, conventions and presentation. Traits There is a LiveBinder dedicated to writing traits topics, references and resources (another Web 2.0 tool that may interest you).
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Deconstruct to Reconstruct
Now, we will collaboratively classify the essential elements of digital storytelling. By deconstructing digital stories we can begin to categorize elements into some core categories. Let's analyze together and collaboratively create a set of criteria for digital storytelling. Critically observe and analyze these three 'stories'.
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