Digital Storytelling2.0 What's Next?
Learning 2.0 Conference Presenter: David Jakes.
Unedited notes from actual session:- reflection post to come later. Posted through Posterous. Will tag and edit later when edublogs can be accessed.
http://jakes.editme.com contains all of the information from this session
Make it personal, publishable and make it transportable.
Digital Storytelling, it's participatory - as we move towards the saturation of this kind of content uploading to the web. Video will be the standard way to communicate. I need to check out the Last World - Obituary
Did you know ..........
78.3 million videos uploaded
152 thousand videos uploaded every day
aver. length 2.45 mins
aver age 26.5 years old
USA 34.5%
412 years to watch
What are we doing in schools to ensure that our students can build content and get across their message in a clear and concise way? http://ourstories.org see the stories from the Nijerian 1 to 1 schools
We would be remiss if we don't teach kids about good content. Dylan's couch - on YouTube (has had 1.8million views)
There's an audience for the students we need to help kids craft their messages for the audience.
New Media
Creative Commons
Licence Attribution: anytime someone wants to use the image they just have to attribute it back to the owner . Rights and responsibilities - using images appropriately and legally
Flickrstorm - you can search flickr very effectively
ccmixter.org take audio download it add to it and re upload it
New Tools
jamstudio.com (online garageband)
jumpcut - (imovie or photostory but online) no longer have to have software on your machines
mycadillacstory.com encourages you to write a story about your car
Teach kids to create content that is in a format for cellphones and iphones
You can put the embed code of voicethread in Google Earth
Flypaper - make a story that sticks
Dandelife - create a life cast. Online timeline of your life. Upload diff. kinds of media to add to it.
box.net - need to look at that.
New Composition Strategies
Crafting stories in the right way - Can we translate written grammar into visual literacy
There are samples online - on the wiki there's a lot of these examples:
Here's a few:-
Slow zoom in gently focuses the viewer
Quick xoom in intensifies drama
Panning adds animation ?????? best to do it slow
In most cases pan left to right
If you want the view to feel uncomfortable - pan right to left
New Message
Be careful - meaningful messages to be crafted
Provide kids with an entry point in their stories
Celebrate Pangea Day - show kids the content of this site
storymapping.org
Fox news - be creators of content - this is not going to stop it's going to continue, we need to teach kids because this is a life time of contribution
New Networks
Stories for Change.net - join this community teach kids to be members of communities
YouTube - moderate the comments for your kids
AFI screen nation - provides students with a safe place to host their content
Digital Storytelling Process
It's about writing - personal narrative. Lead kids into getting their stories. Digital Diplomacy (what's it like to be an american, canadian etc)
Extract the essence - the script. 3 pages to 1 page double spaced. Then highlight the parts that they have to say. Originates form the spoken work 2nd meaning is Visual
Don't illustrate their story - have their story be illustrated.
Storyboard
Put emotional terms into your visual search
Share
within your classroom first, then out in the community
Digital Storytelling Skills
Writing
Visual Literacy
Project Management
Intellectual Property
Network Literacy
Learned a lot from this session - definitely things to take back to the classroom and apply straight away. Will definitely help with Lucy Caulkin's Writer's Workshop I think.
Unedited notes from actual session:- reflection post to come later. Posted through Posterous. Will tag and edit later when edublogs can be accessed.
http://jakes.editme.com contains all of the information from this session
Make it personal, publishable and make it transportable.
Digital Storytelling, it's participatory - as we move towards the saturation of this kind of content uploading to the web. Video will be the standard way to communicate. I need to check out the Last World - Obituary
Did you know ..........
78.3 million videos uploaded
152 thousand videos uploaded every day
aver. length 2.45 mins
aver age 26.5 years old
USA 34.5%
412 years to watch
What are we doing in schools to ensure that our students can build content and get across their message in a clear and concise way? http://ourstories.org see the stories from the Nijerian 1 to 1 schools
We would be remiss if we don't teach kids about good content. Dylan's couch - on YouTube (has had 1.8million views)
There's an audience for the students we need to help kids craft their messages for the audience.
New Media
Creative Commons
Licence Attribution: anytime someone wants to use the image they just have to attribute it back to the owner . Rights and responsibilities - using images appropriately and legally
Flickrstorm - you can search flickr very effectively
ccmixter.org take audio download it add to it and re upload it
New Tools
jamstudio.com (online garageband)
jumpcut - (imovie or photostory but online) no longer have to have software on your machines
mycadillacstory.com encourages you to write a story about your car
Teach kids to create content that is in a format for cellphones and iphones
You can put the embed code of voicethread in Google Earth
Flypaper - make a story that sticks
Dandelife - create a life cast. Online timeline of your life. Upload diff. kinds of media to add to it.
box.net - need to look at that.
New Composition Strategies
Crafting stories in the right way - Can we translate written grammar into visual literacy
There are samples online - on the wiki there's a lot of these examples:
Here's a few:-
Slow zoom in gently focuses the viewer
Quick xoom in intensifies drama
Panning adds animation ?????? best to do it slow
In most cases pan left to right
If you want the view to feel uncomfortable - pan right to left
New Message
Be careful - meaningful messages to be crafted
Provide kids with an entry point in their stories
Celebrate Pangea Day - show kids the content of this site
storymapping.org
Fox news - be creators of content - this is not going to stop it's going to continue, we need to teach kids because this is a life time of contribution
New Networks
Stories for Change.net - join this community teach kids to be members of communities
YouTube - moderate the comments for your kids
AFI screen nation - provides students with a safe place to host their content
Digital Storytelling Process
It's about writing - personal narrative. Lead kids into getting their stories. Digital Diplomacy (what's it like to be an american, canadian etc)
Extract the essence - the script. 3 pages to 1 page double spaced. Then highlight the parts that they have to say. Originates form the spoken work 2nd meaning is Visual
Don't illustrate their story - have their story be illustrated.
Storyboard
Put emotional terms into your visual search
Share
within your classroom first, then out in the community
Digital Storytelling Skills
Writing
Visual Literacy
Project Management
Intellectual Property
Network Literacy
Learned a lot from this session - definitely things to take back to the classroom and apply straight away. Will definitely help with Lucy Caulkin's Writer's Workshop I think.
