This document provides an introduction to digital storytelling. Digital stories are multimedia narratives that combine audio such as narration, music, and sound effects with visual elements including videos, images, and text. They are typically 3-10 minutes in length. Digital stories can engage active learning, increase reflection, engage emotions, and improve digital literacy. Creating digital stories involves writing scripts, recording narration, selecting and combining various media types. The document discusses examples of using digital stories for reflection, service learning, personal narratives, and current events. It also outlines the workflow and tools used to create digital stories.
2. What are digital stories?
Multimedia narratives
Audio: music, sound effects, narration
Visual: videos, images, text
Typically 3-10 minutes in length
3. Why assess with digital stories?
• Engender active learning
• Increase Reflection
• Engage emotions
• Encourage service learning
• Repackage text-based skills
• Improve digital literacy
10. Digital Stories as Reflective Pieces
Courtney McKenna, QUSS instructor
• Weekly blogs – using blog tool in Blackboard
• Reflect on class discussion
• Triangulate topics from other courses
• Comment on current events
• Identify what was most important to the student each week
• Digital Story:
• Synthesis of blogs to show personal or intellectual transformation
throughout the semester
• Camtasia Relay – or other software familiar to student
11. Reflection – Student Example
• https://capture.quinnipiac.edu/recordings/lagoldstein/QU101/QU101_-
_Flash_(Large)_-_20111207_05.26.18PM.html
12. Lessons Learned
• Student feedback
• Enjoyed going back to review blogs
• Helped put the semester into perspective
• “Not another paper!”
• Lessons learned
• Need to push students to not be so literal with the “recap”
• May require the inclusion of outside materials
• Other courses
• Events
• In class showcase?
13. Digital Story & Photovoice for Service
Learning
Tracy Van Oss, DHSc, OTR/L
Digital storytelling was final project for a service learning
course incorporating photos with narration:
• Youth Day Fair at the Yale Bowl
• North Haven Fire Department Bike Safety Day
• International Walk To School Day
• St. Andrews Children Fair
• Halloween Safety at Keefe Center
15. Photovoice as Service Learning
• Photovoice was a grant funded project to capture images
and narration from the child’s perspective to assess a
need for change of the environment in Hamden, CT.
16. “I saw a crack in the sidewalk and someone might trip”
19. Other potential uses
• History: archival footage/images
• Current events: interviews, documentary images
• Personal narratives
• Case studies
20. Digital Stories as Personal Narratives
All the Truly Important Things…
Eric Zheng (pseudonym); part of “Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Community”
YouTube
21. Digital Stories as Current Events
Evolution of Education: The Present
Katelyn Stoll, Bridget Figmic, Bree Gooley, Katie Thompson; students ED 311 YouTube
22. Digital Stories as History
Birth of a Nation as Racial Propaganda Wordless Sound in Antebellum African-
Mary Corrado, student; QU 201 American Song
Brian Noell, instructor; QUSS
YouTube
24. What is the workflow?
Select Combine
Write script
Record images, m narration
&
narration usic, video and other
storyboard
s, text media
25. Tools for creating/collecting media
Record narration
• QuickTime, iMovie, Sound Recorder
Find…
• Images
• Flickr Commons & Creative Commons
• Videos
• Flip Video Cameras, YouTube, Vimeo
• Music
• Jamendo, ccMixter Mac
• Sound effects
Windows
• Freesound, SoundBible
26. Tools for finalizing/combining media
• Edit images
• iPhoto, Live Photo Gallery
• Edit/record video
• iMovie, Live Movie Maker
• Camtasia Relay
• Share product
• Publish to YouTube
• Share Camtasia link Mac
Windows
27. Tips, tricks, & suggestions
• Provide support for tools
• Make sure hardware is accessible
• Choose a good microphone
• Encourage process writing
• Have check-in assignments
• Smaller groups (3-4 students)
• Plan a showcase
28. Resources for faculty & students
• AT’s Multimedia support page
• Instructional Technologists
• Jeremy, Monica, Gary, Christina
• Technology Center – Flip Cams, tripods, etc.
• The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
• University of Houston