MDL4000 - Media and Digital Literacy
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5.2 Digital Storytelling - From Planning to Doing

Readings
  • Creative Educator – Digital Storytelling
  • Seven Steps for StoryMaking, Bernajean Porter wiki 
  • A Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction, Grades 4 to 6: Volume 7 - Media Literacy
  • Language Arts Curriculum Document - Ontario Ministry of Education
Take a moment to scan through this Advanced Thinking in Digital Storytelling document from the Creative Educator as you PLAN and begin to DO your digital storytelling. Remember the mantra "Less is MORE". 

How to integrate new media and participatory culture into your teaching practice

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Planning to integrate digital storytelling and video production into your classroom?

Where do you start? How do you start?

It's a story in itself - problems and tensions are transformed into solutions and resolutions.
​ Take your time to work through it.


Connecting Digital Storytelling to the Media curriculum
Using the Ontario Language Arts Curriculum documents and the cross comparison charts for the Media expectations, what expectations can you address with digital story telling?

Which components of storytelling can be applied to expectations at specific grade levels.

Look at the grade levels you may be teaching on your next placement experience.
​Where and how could you start? What questions do you need to answer before you being?
Use the chart paper placemats on each table to collect your insights and critical questions.

Sharing ideas and plans.
What could this look like in the classroom.

Click to access the Google Slides document to build connections from your digital storytelling plan experience to classroom teaching.



Digital Stories - connecting the craft to the practice

Thinking about using digital storytelling in the classroom? Linking the writing to a curriculum unit is an essential first step. Determining the curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria are part of the planning process. Understanding the prior knowledge students have with the content AND the technology tools is an important consideration. Building into your plans some scaffolding and time for exploration will help students build success from errors, problems or issues.

Review these documents to capture ideas and connections to your teaching practice. 

  1. Getting Started with Storytelling
  2. Advanced Thinking in Digital Storytelling

Engaging students in the practice by making it meaningful. Some real-life, recent examples:
  • Using creative technology tools to engage struggling readers and writers, article written by Melinda Kolk




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NEXT STEPS:  

Resources/Links:

    • Radio Rookies: An Educator's Guide to Teaching Interviewing Skills http://hivenyc.org/2013/05/22/radio-rookies-diy-educators-guide-to-teaching-interviewing-skills/
    • Photography: The Rule of Thirds http://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/quick-tip-the-rule-of-thirds--photo-7796
    • Basics of Photography: Composition http://lifehacker.com/5814174/basics-of-photography-composition-and-technique
    • Gone Home is A Bold Step in Storytelling - a trailer for a video game with a strong storyline
    • Shangri-La, It's in our Nature - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jZ1UFR_Wc&feature=youtu.be
    • Storytelling is Not Just for Campfires (Infographic) - http://visual.ly/storytelling-not-just-campfires​
    • The Dragon Collective Trilogy - trailer for an educational learning tool done in a story
    • Design Lab: Digital Storytelling - tips, examples, resources
    • Little Bird Tales - creating stories with young childre 
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