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Workshop :: Digital Storytelling & Presentation Tools

Your Turn!

1: What's YOUR story?

Why do we tell stories? To share an experience, to teach a lesson, to create community, to share our history, to entertain, to convey meaning, to sway opinions, to share a message.

What story will you tell? Think of a story that you want to work with today (or several). Don't worry about making a masterpiece, but focus on exploring the technology.

Somewhere you've traveled or always wanted to go
Memories from childhood - a favorite time with family, a sad time,
Favorite foods and recipes
If you could be a character from a book, who?
What period of time would you love to have lived in?
An emotion
Use five card flickr to get inspired
FlickrPoet - type in words, get back a collage
Phrasr - type in words, get back a collage
Once Upon A Time Card Game - Story idea generator

2: Researching, Organizing, Outlining

We won't spend too much time on this aspect today, but it's a very important part of the process. Especially if you are working with students. Storytelling addresses many skills including: visual literacy, technical skills, reading & writing, organizing & communication skills.

Plan & Researching your presentation or story.

What do you want to say, what order should your story be told in, who's your audience, what do you want them to know?
Researching the subject of the presentation
Preparing a script for narration
Gathering information to annotate photos
Students could use mindmapping & storyboarding tools to help them get organized.

Decide what storytelling or presentation tools to use.

What type of tool is suited to your story?
Where will your story appear? Can you embed your final project easily on a website?

Find photos, music, sound, video

Do you have your own photos, music, videos, drawings, etc?
Will you need to find other material that is not copyrighted? See lists of resources below.

Create! And have fun.

Some helpful tools

Paper and pencil! :-)
WorkFlowy for taking notes and outlining.
USB drive to save media file
Free DropBox account to save media files. (disclaimer: if you sign up from that link, I get more free storage.)
Evernote for gathering resources
Brainstorming tools like Popplet, Mindomo, bubbl.us
Padlet for some collaborative brainstorming
StoryboardThat - Create short storyboards for free.
Storyboards - an example of a storyboarding process