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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
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