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Tech Tools for Digital Storytelling, Presentations & Library PR
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TODAY!
Storytelling and presenting are too intertwined to separate, since giving an effective presentation is really all about good storytelling. In this workshop we'll cover a selection of tools to help tell stories through photos, voice, text, video and music.
Storytelling is at the heart of so many activities. We use it as an advocacy tool, to share our personal stories, to preserve the history of our community, to present classroom assignments and research and so much more.
The tools we'll cover here will be useful for schools and all types of libraries. Use them kids & teens in classrooms. school and public libraries. These would also be great tools to cover in a technology series for the public and have them create their own stories to share. Let your creative spirit, imagination and memories loose!
Workshop Agenda:
In our workshop we'll :
- Overview & Examples: View & discuss examples of digital stories and presentations made with a variety of tools
- What's YOUR Story: Select & outline a story idea that you'll work with during the day
- Find Media: Use search tools to find Creative Commons licensed media for your story project
- The Tools: Have fun creating stories with a variety of digital tools. You pick what you want to try out!
1: Overview & Examples
EXAMPLES
Commercial Stories:
Library Stories, Reports & Advocacy
- Intersections - NYPL, history, maps, Google Earth
- Cedar Rapids PL annual report
- Silver Lake Public Library Annual Report - Animoto
- Questar III School Library System - Advocacy video
- Unquiet Library Annual Report - Animoto Video
- Colorado Public Library Data - Many Eyes
- Day in the Life of a Librarian - Storify
- Why Patrons Belong at the Library - Storify collects 6 word tweets from library patrons.
- Some Patrons of the University of Delaware Library Talk about why they love the library - Video from the Library Road Show
- Who needs Libraries? We all do - Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
- Where would you be without your library? - Fundraising video that went viral. M. N. Spear Library, Shutesbury, MA
- AMS Library Animoto Videos from 2011-2012: Quarter 1 , Quarter 2: Animoto videos by Rebecca Ekstrom, Algonquin Middle School.
Personal Stories
- Remember When - Memories of Ipswich - Wiki
- Dear Photograph - Take an old photo, rephotograph it in context. Simple, elegant. (Thank you for everything)
- Six Word Memoirs flickr set from Cre8tive Havoc - 6 words, a photograph.
- 5 Photo Stories - tell a story in 5 photo - (eg: http://edchnm.gmu.edu/courses/ctch792sp10/2010/02/01/defensive/)
- StoryCorps - Stories told simply and from the heart. Audio. You could do your own StoryCorps project and record your community history. For Tips Check out the StoryCorps DIY page.
- MyHistro - TImeline based stories. Historical, biographical, personal, etc. (eg: Neil Armstrong)
- Mount Saint Helens Eruption: At the Mercy of Nature - Personal narrative, still photos & audio.
- Take a Walk in My Shoes - Student presentation using photos, original story, personal story, audio (missing?)
- Center for Digital Storytelling - photos, audio, music
Community Stories
- Remember When - Memories of Ipswich - Wiki
- North Platte Canteen - VoiceThread using photos, music, voice.
- It's Time for Phoenicia - Pep Rally Video
Events, Promos, etc.
- Pinterest boards to promote library events, materials, etc.
- Hispanic Heritage Month - Animoto HS promo
- Looking for adventure.. and doughnuts - things you can find at your library. Google's Search Stories
- Digital Learning Day 2012 - Buffaly & Erie County PL
- Database Dance - Ellen Druda at Half Hollow Hills PL used Prezi & screencastomatic (among other tools) to create this. Clever!
- Twilight - Book trailer with VoiceThread
- National Gaming Day @ Your Library - Animoto Promo by Wendy Cope
- Express Yourself @ the Library - Summer reading program promo done with Prezi
- Bring Back Your Books! - Blabberize (at bottom of page)
School Projects, Kids & Teens
- Polar Bears - 2nd grade animoto
- I Watch America Fight - Student animoto
- You Can't Just Google It - Xtranormal cartoon created by the SweetSearch folks. (Xtranormal is no longer...)
- How to Plant a Flower - Little Story Tales
- Digital Passport - Kristen Magyar (present.me)
- Science Time - Made with ZimmerTwins
- 4 WAYS TO USE STORIFY IN THE CLASSROOM (4 samples - Little Women, Rosa Parks, Tundra)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Storify
- Amara's Adventure - Storybird
- StoryBird Maegen - Story created with Storybird. Then recorded as a video with a screencasting tool .
- Turkey Disguises - Molly Clark's elementary students at Oswego School District - (Storykit iOS app)
- Don't Let the Pigeon be the Principal - Book Trailer done with still photos, audio & background music.
- Itzak Stern - Glogster
- Celebrating Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day at Van Meter! Animoto
- Twilight - Book trailer with VoiceThread
- Opposites - Photopeach slide show used to present an assignment
- Lebanon - A timeline presentation
- Digital Walk Assignement
- Heritage Digital Story portfolio - video, poem, haiku, and more.
- Lifecycles - ToonDoo's
And more....
- Best of Publib - as Wordles
- I am Rose: Life in the Blitz (Lifelines project)
- Inanimate Alice - a whole new genre of storytelling
- Teaching Ideas - Pinterest
MORE IDEAS
- Student & Teen program ideas:
- Book trailers using photos and audio.
- Presenting findings from a science lab.
- Slide show of a classroom event
- Present art work with audio of student explaining the work
- Creative writing - story and pictures.
- Autobiography - "my life so far" :-)
- Students introduce themselves to the class at the beginning of the school year. These could make a fun time capsule if done annually.
- Presentation of research project
- Virtual Walk through your neighborhood
- Finding geometry in things around us. Take photos and explain
- Vocabulary - acting out words with photos, video, audio
- Teen Read Week - book trailers, "my life so far" creations
- Six Word Memoirs
- 5 photo stories - tell a story in 5 photos.
- Community members
- history of an event in the region or a story of their neighborhood.
- What my library means to me.
- Families - share stories of "back when I was a kid" :)
- StoryCorps types of interviews to record personal histories. For Tips Check out the StoryCorps DIY page.
- "My favorite books" - use pinterest to 'collect' cover images from catalog.
- Libraries
- Flickr slideshows of events, easy to turn into animoto video
- Story of the library
- Use a curation tool (like Storify) to keep track of an ongoing story in your library, town or region. Embed it on your library website.
- Highlight new
- Highlight student, group, patron of the week. Audio and photos.
- Chronicle an event through news stories, tweets, photos using a curation tool
- PR for upcoming events
- 6 word memoirs
- Articles with more ideas:
- Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
- I'm Thankful for Teachers - Sarah Ludwig's post about a reading project incorporating digital storytelling. And her followup post: The First Book I've Ever Liked
Why??
- Video: What are the New Media Literacies - Henry Jenkins, MIT
Resources:
- Digital Storytelling and Stories with the iPad - Even if you're not using iPads, this is a must read to get context for doing digital storytelling in a K-12 setting.
- The 5 Rules of Digital Storytelling Every Teacher Should Know About - Handy infographic with 5 clear steps for creating a compelling story.
- Want more storytelling ideas? See 50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story. (a BIG inspiration for all the content on this site - thank you!) - List of new tools to explore
- Meet the Winners of the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge! - Examples of advocacy videos from social benefit organizations. From TechSoup.
- How To Guide: Digital Story Telling Tools for Educators - Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano - Terrific guide to using some popular storytelling tools. Free downloadable PDF. (more resources on her blog)
- Storytelling Apps - a selection by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
- Storytelling Apps - a selection by Matt Gomez
- More Tools for Digital Storytellers (with links to 100 digital storytelling tools) - enough tools to keep you busy for a year!
- Digital Storytelling - Wonderful collection of resources by Dean Mantz.
- Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound - Great collection of resource sites.
- 30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media
- Finding Media For Your Story
- Creative Commons Content Directories - Directory of audio, video and image resources.
- Soundzabound - Good source for audio if your school has a subscription to this service.
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