Digital Storytelling
Storytelling is used as an educational medium. Stories provide information, knowledge, content and emotions. Students learn through stories. In an elementary school setting, digital storytelling would be an extension of the storytelling already taking place. Some examples include:
as a teacher directed flipped lesson
share lessons
students explain a math concept,
show a science experiment
create a “how to” video
character study
history of community
text feature presentation
produce and publish writing
sequencing
research
organization of ideas
assessments
In an online learning environment, digital storytelling can be used in the same ways as in a traditional classroom. The online learning environment will be more dependent on digital storytelling lessons. Digital stories can capture learners’ attention and overcome the lack of personal connection with the online learner. The learner can connect with the instructor through the “stories” that are told. Digital stories also allow the learners to creative and innovative in projects and assessments.
Sarah Plain and Tall is a novel we read in third grade. Several of the the projects we have used in the past can be adapted to digital storytelling. The suitcase project would be one. Sarah travels by train from Maine to the prairies. She can only take one suitcase. Students are to make a paper suitcase and choose 5 items for the suitcase that they feel is important for Sarah to take, illustrate these items and explain why they chose it. Instead of a paper suitcase, a digital suitcase could be created. The students would use several creative commons and copyright friendly image sites like Flickr, Pics4Learning and WPClipart to find images of items that Sarah would place in her suitcase. These images are saved to the student's personal folders and then uploaded them to Showme or Moviemaker, arranged their images, add relevant captions using BubbleR, voicethread or selected music and created a moving picture show depicting items Sarah would take on her trip.
Resources
Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/creative_commons-_free_pictures/
Pics4Learning - http://pics4learning.com
WPClipart - http://wpclipart.com
Showme- http://showme.com
Showme video - http://vimeo.com/38003641
BubblR - http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/index.php
Compfight - http://compfight.com
Flickr Storm - http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
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