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Digital Storytelling with ELL Students
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"Stories paint word pictures and use the sound and rhythm and repetition of words. In developing and learning a story you should concentrate on its visual and audio aspects: either assemble it into a series of visual pictures like a filmstrip, or consciously absorb the rhythm and arrangement of the sounds of the words."
-- Barry McWilliams
What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital Storytelling is a multimedia narrative that
- uses authentic writing
- honors authentic voice
- utilizes multimedia (image, video, music etc.)
- tells a powerful story
"Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences, and insights."
- Leslie Rule
It's still about the
writing process:
- Brainstorm ideas
- Draft and revise a script
- Create a storyboard
- Publish to authentic audience
"We are our stories.
We compress years
of experience, thought
and emotion into a few
compact narratives that
we convey to others and
tell to ourselves."
- Daniel Pink
Digital Storytelling allows English Language Learners to:
- Share immigrant experiences
- Place value of spoken narrative
- Empower their use of "voice"
- Proide for differentiated instruction (entry points for everyone)
- Revise for an authentic reason
- Collaborate with family, peers, others
- Publish a story with the world (if desired)
What does it look like
in the classroom?
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Important Elements of Digital Storytelling
from Joe Lambert's "Digital Storytelling Cookbook":
- Point of view
- Dramatic Question
- Emotional Content
- The Gift of your Voice
- The Power of Soundtrack
- Economy
- Pacing
"I know only one thing
about the technologies
that await us in the future:
We will find ways to tell
stories with them."
-- Jason Ohler
What (free) desktop tools can you use?
- Powerpoint
- Photostory 3 (PC)
- Moviemaker (PC)
- iMovie (Mac)
- iPhoto (Mac)
What online tools can you use?
- Voicethread (collaborative podcasting: http://voicethread.com/)
- Jaycut (online video editor: http://jaycut.com/ )
- Piclits (image, text)
- Animoto (music video creator: https://animoto.com/ )
- Digital Storyteller Creator (http://www.digitalstoryteller.org/ )
"Story is the songline of
a person's life. We need to sing it and we need someone to hear the songs. Story told. Story heard. Story written. Story read creates the web of life in words.
-- Christina Baldwin
Finding Their Voice
Digital Storytelling
and
English Language Learners
By Kevin Hodgson
American Immigration Project
from the National Writing Project