Digital Storytelling and Photo – Journalism to Promote Literacy
Pictures to Motion to Excellent Digital Storytelling
(ElizabethHS , 2011)
Introduction
Digital storytelling is a way to tell stories using computer technology, which is a powerful tool for teaching and learning that helps both teachers, by advancing their educational goals in the classroom, and students, by developing their analytical and communication skills, as well as their computer technology skills. Digital storytelling is a base for those who are interested in knowing how multimedia could be integrated into many different educational activities.(Robin, 2008)
Digital Storytelling using Multimedia
( Peter Murner, 2012)
What is a Digital Storytelling?
( JAGTKD , 2009)
The Digital storytelling process starts with choosing a topic, writing a script and creating a story by using multimedia, which includes computer-based graphics, recorded audio narration, text, video clips, and music. After the Digital Story is created, it can then be uploaded on a web site, or burned onto a DVD (Table -1).
Table-1 shows the bases needed to process a Digital Story
("Digital storytelling steps," 2011)
Digital Storytelling Literacy
(Layla Revis, 2012)
A Digital storytelling topic can be based on any subject, which can help an individual to develop their creative literacy skills. Robin (2008) combined the research of many authors who wrote 21st Century Skills or Digital Age Literacy to develop the theory on Digital Storytelling literacy. She further divided this large topic into several different categories, which are listed below.
1) Digital Literacy: The ability to communicate with an ever-expanding community to discuss issues, gather information, and seek help;
2) Global Literacy: the capacity to read, interpret, respond, and contextualize messages from a global perspective
3) Technology Literacy: the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity, and performance;
4) Visual Literacy: the ability to understand, produce, and communicate through visual images;
5) Information Literacy: the ability to find, evaluate, and synthesize information
*Gaining the above literacy skills is very important to an individual in order to develop analytical and communication skills by using the latest computer technology.
(Robin,2008)
Historical Background of Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling started in the 1990s when Joe Lambert and Dana Atchley created the idea of Digital Storytelling and started a non-profitable organization community center at Berkley called Center of Digital Storytelling (CDS), which provided services and training (Robin, 2008). At the Center of Digital Storytelling, 7 elements were designed as guidelines for how to develop a digital story.
Center for Digital Storytelling‘s Seven Elements by Joe Lambert at Berkley Center (Robin, 2008)
1. Point of view
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What is the main point of the story and what is the perspective of the author?
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2. A dramatic question
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A key question that keeps the viewer’s attention and will be answered by the end of the story.
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3. Emotional content
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Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the story to the audience.
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4. The gift of your voice
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A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context.
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5. The power of the
Soundtrack
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Music or other sounds that support and embellish the storyline.
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6. Economy
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Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer.
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7. Pacing
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The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses
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(Robin, 2008)
Examples of Digital Storytelling
There are a variety of digital stories available on the web. Fictional works, such as inAnimate Alice, tell a story. They can be used in the classroom just as any other novel would be used, as a means to increase motivation to read, or for pure enjoyment. Students may also be asked to create their own fictional story. Nonfictional works may include personal narratives or histories.
Below you will see an example of an historical (nonfiction) story that was created by some 5th grade students. In creating their story, they truly were able to synthesize information on the topic.
In conclusion, we can see that Digital storytelling is a very powerful tool for telling stories that help with communications, reading and writing literacy using the latest computer technology.
References:
Bernard, R. R. (2008). Digital storytelling: A powerful technology tool for the 21st century classroom. Theory Into Practice, 47(3), 220-228.
Digital storytelling steps. (2011). [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://keystone-training.pbworks.com/w/page/10731085/Digital Story Telling
ElizabethHS (Producer). (2011). Digital storytelling. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://evosessions.pbworks.com/w/page/33494090/Digital Storytelling 2011
JAGTKD (2009). What is digital storytelling? [Theater]. Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZiXR5qUlQ
Layla Revis. (Photographer). (2012). 4 inspiring examples of digital storytelling. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://mashable.com/2012/01/31/digital-storytelling/
Peter Murner. (Photographer). (2012). Digital storytelling sxswedu . [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://pi.amspictures.com/blog/sxswedu_2012_planning/attachment
University of Houston. (2011). [The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling]. Retrieved from http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html
Comments (4)
carolina said
at 5:55 pm on Apr 20, 2012
Your Wikis needs to go here!
carolina said
at 11:59 pm on Apr 22, 2012
Hey Fatemah...
you need one more image. it said a two visual images.
4 links, you only have two links, you need two more.
I"m going to be checking your APA in the reference section.
ffderakhshan@... said
at 1:35 pm on Apr 23, 2012
Hi Carolina,
Thank you, for your checking, I added them.
carolina said
at 10:26 pm on Apr 25, 2012
your welcome!
I added more, too
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